Delivering a world scale hydrogen project
The SA Government committed to the Hydrogen Jobs Plan: a global-scale hydrogen production, storage and power generation project in Whyalla designed to advance the hydrogen economy, demonstrate the technology, and reinforce SA's leadership in the transition to fully renewable energy.
Delivering the State's objectives required all component projects to be planned and executed as a single coordinated program. PQ Partners was engaged to establish program structure, governance, strategic direction, and project management controls, including the roles of Program Manager and key project control leads.
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Set of State objectives
Individual projects
Cohesive integrated team
The Challenge
Establishing a program structure and strategies that could scale to meet the evolving project requirements.
Ensure all project teams were working towards common objectives using common management approaches and systems.
Rapidly progress front‑end loading to meet aggressive schedule and cost targets.
Develop the delivery and operation phase scopes and performance metrics in conjunction with industry leading companies.
The Approach
Established governance: Setup executive-level steerco and functional workstreams to bring structure and drive consistency and accountability.
Set execution structure: Defined the roles, battery limits and interfaces for the Owner’s team and the individual project contractors.
Enabled teams to deliver: Provided fit for purpose routines, tools, dashboards, controls and reporting, giving management and teams the confidence to act.
Provided program and project leadership: Led the program of the key process step projects while guiding and supporting the project managers of the related infrastructure projects.
The Outcomes
Value/risk based decision making: the Steering Committee could make informed decisions with clear and consistent data.
One cohesive integrated team: the matrix team structure implemented was scaled with each new project while leveraging common functional support processes, resources and systems.
Clear accountability: team members understood their roles, targets and how to support each other to achieve overall objectives.
Sustained drive: disciplined focus on the integrated solution and performance targets in the face of cost and schedule pressures.