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Professional Project Coordination and Delivery

Running planning commissions: scope, programme, drawing control, review and client communication.

Project coordination wall with a printed programme, task board and drawing register sheets
Illustrative image — project coordination and delivery.

Course overview

A practice programme on delivering planning work reliably — agreeing scope and deliverables, building a realistic programme, coordinating drawings and inputs, running review points and keeping clients informed as work develops.

Who it is for

  • Planning professionals
  • Graduates and early-career planners
  • Architects and designers
  • Public-sector and agency teams

What participants will learn

  • Define scope, deliverables and assumptions precisely
  • Build and maintain a realistic delivery programme
  • Coordinate drawings, data and specialist inputs
  • Manage review, revision and client communication

Curriculum outline

  1. Module 1

    Scoping

    • Brief interrogation and deliverable definition
    • Assumptions, exclusions and change control
  2. Module 2

    Programme and coordination

    • Sequencing tasks and dependencies
    • Drawing registers, file discipline and version control
  3. Module 3

    Delivery and review

    • Internal review and quality checking
    • Client reporting and handover

Expected practical outcomes

  • A scope and deliverables schedule for a sample commission
  • A delivery programme with dependencies
  • A quality-review checklist for planning outputs

Prerequisites

  • None

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