2 Mitigate potential issues and uncertainties

Once potential issues and uncertainties are identified and prioritized, the next step is to develop strategies to mitigate them. Contingency planning can help with this, as it involves establishing plans for high-risk scenarios and defining the actions, resources, and responsibilities to deal with them. Additionally, change management should be established to manage changes in the project scope, schedule, budget, quality, or performance. Conflict resolution should also be established to resolve conflicts among stakeholders and foster a culture of trust and collaboration. Lastly, value engineering techniques can be applied to optimize design and construction solutions and eliminate unnecessary costs or waste.

3 Select IPD team leaders and facilitators

The selection and training of IPD team leaders and facilitators is a key factor for the success of an IPD project. These individuals will coordinate and guide the collaborative efforts of the IPD team while ensuring that project goals and objectives are met. When selecting and training IPD team leaders and facilitators, it’s important to consider criteria such as experience, knowledge, leadership, communication, collaboration, negotiation, learning, and adaptation. The IPD team leaders and facilitators should have relevant experience in the project type, scope, and complexity as well as in the IPD principles and practices. They should also possess strong leadership and communication skills to motivate and inspire the team members. Furthermore, they should be able to facilitate constructive dialogue, consensus building, problem solving among stakeholders. Lastly, the IPD team leaders and facilitators should have a learning and adaptation mindset to embrace uncertainty, feedback, and innovation.

4 Train IPD team leaders and facilitators

To ensure the effectiveness of IPD team leaders and facilitators, they should receive adequate training and support to develop and enhance their skills and competencies. Coaching and mentoring sessions, workshops and seminars, online courses and webinars, as well as case studies and best practices examples of successful IPD projects can all help with this. Coaches or mentors can offer guidance, feedback, and advice, while seminars can cover topics such as IPD principles and practices, team building, communication, collaboration, negotiation, conflict resolution, value engineering, risk management, change management, and innovation. Online courses or webinars allow team leaders and facilitators to learn at their own pace. Finally, case studies can help analyze the lessons learned by the IPD team leaders and facilitators.