GO FORTH Standard Courses
GO FORTH offer the following standard courses which are accredited by the ACostE:
- Project Management Specifics
- Understanding Project Controls
- Advanced Project Controls
These courses contain GO FORTH developed teaching and learning material that is accredited by the Association of Cost Engineers.
Project Management Specifics
GFM01 Strategy, Projects, Programmes and Portfolios
GFM02 Project Life Cycles
GFM03 Options Analysis, Selection and FID
GFM04 Project Objectives and Success Criteria
GFM05 Business Case, Sponsorship and Benefits
GFM06 Stakeholder Management
GFM07 Commercial and Procurement Management
GFM08 Requirements, Scope and Deliverables
GFM09 Governance and Project Management Plans
GFM10 Project Assurance
Understanding Project Controls
GFUC01 Understanding Project Controls
GFUC02 Understanding Breakdown Structures
GFUC03 Understanding Estimating
GFUC04 Understanding Planning and Scheduling
GFUC05 Understanding Cost Control
GFUC06 Understanding the Baseline
GFUC07 Understanding Progress and Performance
GFUC08 Understanding Risk and Change
Advanced Project Controls
GFAC01 Scope, Breakdown Structures, Deliverables
GFAC02 Estimating Practice
GFAC03 Commercial Support
GFAC04 Planning and Scheduling Practice
GFAC05 Budgeting and Cost Control
GFAC06 Budgets and Baseline Management
GFAC07 Physical Progress
GFAC08 Data, Variances, Performance and Forecasting
GFAC09 Advanced Statistical Analysis
GFAC10 Cost and Schedule Optimisation
GFAC11 Risk, Change and Issue Management
GFAC12 Ethical Reporting
GFAC13 Project Controls Plan
If you need Something New
If you don't see what you need in the GO FORTH standard modules, or need help to establish your requirements, GO FORTH would be pleased to work with you to provide what you are looking for.
About Shane Forth
Shane Forth FAPM FACostE - Principal Consultant
Over the course my 50-year career as a project controls leader in the oil and gas, nuclear, power, process, infrastructure, steel, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing industries, I have become an internationally acknowledged authority, formally recognised in 2023 with a global award for my lifetime contribution to project controls. I have consistently taken the lead as an early adopter and implementor of cutting-edge project control techniques. Since 2021, as GO FORTH, I help give people the skills to manage and control projects well and have delivered ECITB and other Project Controls short courses to 50+ ECITB in scope companies and 400+ delegates in the UK Engineering and Construction industry.
As past chair of the BCECA Project Control Managers Committee and a fellow of APM and ACostE, where I served two terms as Vice-President, my industry leadership, uniting groups and individuals, has reaped benefits for the project controls community such as higher professional recognition and apprenticeship programmes.
In 2012 I received the ECITB award for Outstanding Contribution in the Leadership of Training and development. I am considered an exceptional thought leader, known for sharing my knowledge and experience, speaking at prestigious international conferences. I have developed close relationships with academia as a visiting lecturer, and am consulting editor/author of the Practitioner Handbook of Project Controls.
Global Project Controls Lifetime Contribution Award 2023
Honoring Excellence in Project Controls. I was the recipient of the Global Project Controls Lifetime Contribution Award at the Project Controls Expo in November 2023, held at Wembley Stadium.
This award recognises my outstanding contribution and dedication to the Project Controls profession throughout my career and my lasting positive impact to the professional community and moving it forward. The award was presented to me by Professor Adam Boddison OBE, CEO of the Association for Project Management.
Course Details
ECITB Introduction to Project Controls
ECITB Managing Risk as Part of a Project Team
5 x 1/2 days, 9.00am - 1.30pm (23 hours)
Description
Includes all aspects of project controls, with an in-depth emphasis on planning, scheduling and earned value from first principles, based on a simulated real world project case study for a recycling plant and associated data. Critical communication skills are also explored.
Key Outcomes
Delegates use a range of best practice tools and techniques to:
- Acquire knowledge, skills and behaviours for project success
- To solidify the learning, delegates develop worked examples from a simulated real world project case study for a Recycling Plant, with associated data and exercises.
- On completion, delegates are awarded an ECITB Certificate of Training
Who Attends?
Project control generalists, specialists or those heading for a project controls role. Also benefits graduates and staff in other roles - PMO, project management, project engineers design engineers, site engineers, commercial, proposals, quality management, document controls and more.
ECITB Managing Risk as Part of a Project Team
ECITB Managing Risk as Part of a Project Team
2 x 1/2 days, 9.00am - 1.30pm (9 hours)
Description
Provides practical risk management training. Delegates apply best practice from the APM (Association for Project Management) Project Risk Analysis and Management processes, techniques and methods, that can be used on any project, whatever the industry, timescale and budget; to increase the likelihood of successful project completion. The course is highly participative, with presentations to support group discussions and a series of group exercises, based around a real-world engineering construction project scenario in which delegates are assigned to individual project team roles and build a risk register.
Key Outcomes
Delegates gain a shared understanding risk management in terms of its
- Terminology
- Practical implementation
- Tools and Techniques
- Associated human factors
- On completion, delegates are awarded an ECITB Certificate of Training
Who Attends?
Anyone who works in a project team who needs to develop their knowledge, skills and behaviours for project risk management.
ECITB Estimating Methodology and Practice
5 x 1/2 days, 9.00am - 1.30pm (23 hours)
Description
Thorough, practical, in-depth and broad coverage of estimating for engineering and construction. The perspectives of key stakeholders such as owners, contractors, clients, and consultancy services are all considered. Recommended Practice from the AACEI (Association for Advancement of Cost Engineering) used with practical case studies, including a Waste to Energy Plant, group activities, exercises, discussions and quizzes.
Key Outcomes
- Delegates acquire and consolidate the knowledge and skills in the technical and interpersonal abilities needed to prepare estimates at all phases of CAPEX and OPEX
- Carry out economic evaluation and cash flow
- On completion, delegates are awarded an ECITB Certificate of Training
Who Attends?
New and experienced estimators and those who need a broader perspective, such as commercial, proposals, project managers, project engineers design engineers, technical and package managers, site engineers, quality managers and planners.
ECITB Project Document Managers Course
5 x 1/2 days, 9.00am - 1.30pm (23 hours)
Description
Helps delegates understand how to set up, implement and close out document management on a project. The course consists of four modules: Setting the Scene, Definition, Implementation and Handover and Closeout. The underlying principles are considered on a real-world project scenario where document management of client, contractor, subcontractors and major vendors must be integrated.
Key Outcomes
- Delegates complete a pre-course assignment (on how Document Management works in their organisation)
- Go on to complete two post-course assignments to complete a Document Management Procedure for the project scenario
- An ECITB Certificate of Achievement is awarded to delegates who successfully complete the course and assignments.
Who Attends?
Current and potential document managers, document controllers, information managers, procurement staff, office managers commercial assistants, administrators and technical clerks.