Mining Project Management

Mining projects fail in recognisable ways: a scope that grew between studies, a schedule built backwards from a board commitment, and a handover to operations that nobody planned. This week is project management set in that reality. It covers the stage gate structure the industry uses, estimating and scheduling against uncertain ground, contracting strategy, and the commissioning and ramp up where most of the value is actually won or lost.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Run a project through a stage gate process without losing the gate.
• Build a schedule and estimate that survive contact with the ground.
• Choose a contracting strategy suited to the risk being carried.
• Control scope, cost and change over a long duration.
• Plan commissioning and ramp up from the start rather than at the end.

Project and study managers, engineering and construction managers, planners and cost engineers, and operations managers receiving a project.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A stage gate deliverables list for your current project.
• A risk register with owners and quantified contingency.
• A commissioning and handover plan.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.