SYNOPSIS

Two words most commonly associated with projects are: unique and temporary. Focusing on the word ‘UNIQUE’, an experienced project manager knows that there is no ‘one size fits all’ solution to all project problems. When your project is in trouble and likely to become a statistic for project failure, no amount of wishful thinking or bashing your head against the nearest brick wall is going to help you. So the answer or solution lies in using the structured approach of project management, as well as your own intuition combined with a thorough understanding of the unique nature of your project to begin the project recovery process.

The speaker will share his own experience and knowledge in how, amongst other things, the overall project should be evaluated to identify the key problems and the severity of each one, followed by the creation and ‘selling’ of a prioritized recovery plan to the key stakeholders. Once the ‘buy-in’ is obtained, he goes on elucidate how the plan is implemented, project team kept motivated, stakeholders pacified and  given the confidence in the plan’s eventual success, and how the plan is regularly measured and reported on. He goes on to emphasize that responses to unplanned events/risks should be decisive, quick, and effective, failing which, further project failure would be imminent.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir. Faizal Abdullah Sanusi is currently the Advisor of the Project Management Technical Division in IEM after serving this committee for the past 8 years, including as its Chairman.

His engineering and project management experience spans across the oil & gas and building industry since he began his career 27 years ago. Some of his notable career highlights as follows:
Senior Project Engineer for Gas Processing Plant Projects, Compressor Stations, industrial buildings & office complexes
Project Manager for the Malaysian Securities Commission 4 star intelligent building project
Director of a local Facilities Management company overseeing oil & gas O&M projects
Project Services Manager of Murphy Oil Corp., a multi national company performing exploration and development of oil & gas resources; providing schedule & cost control to shallow water activities
Department Head, Project Support Services of TL Offshore Sdn. Bhd., an offshore installations company serving the upstream oil & gas industry
Lead Project Interface for Hess Oil & Gas Sdn. Bhd.

In his career, Ir. Faizal has provided training to PETRONAS Management Training Institute (PERMATA); I&P, Gamuda and ENCORP – property developers and, for the Royal Malaysian Navy.