Advanced Contracts & Project Management Training Course

  • Advanced Contracts & Project Management Training Course
  • Spain - Barcelona

Advanced Contracts & Project Management Training Course

Course Category : Project Management

In time- and cost-constrained project environments, robust contracting and disciplined project management are decisive for safeguarding profitability, reducing disputes, and achieving schedule and cost performance. This course equips participants with advanced capabilities in contract creation and administration, project planning and controls, commercial risk and change management, and professional dispute resolution to strengthen delivery and commercial outcomes.
Duration: 10 Training Days
Level: Advanced.

Starts On

11 - May - 2026

Ends On

15 - May - 2026

Location

Spain - Barcelona

Language

English

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Targeted Audience

  • Professionals seeking to refine advanced contracting and project management skills
  • Teams from contracting, project management, planning, process improvement, claims, audit, risk management, and contract strategy functions
  • New entrants to contracting/project roles and experienced professionals requiring an advanced refresher
  • Project and contract managers across industrial, construction, and service delivery environments

Targeted Skills

  • Structuring and administering enforceable contracts that reduce commercial risk
  • Selecting contract structures and delivery models with effective risk allocation
  • Managing performance, change, claims, and variations systematically
  • Applying advanced planning and scheduling with time–cost trade-off analysis
  • Designing effective project controls and professional documentation governance
  • Resolving disputes through negotiation and appropriate ADR mechanisms before escalation

Expected Outcomes

  • Evaluate core contract elements and identify weaknesses that drive disputes.
  • Select suitable contract types and delivery models (EPC/BOT/Alliance, etc.) aligned with risk strategy.
  • Build a practical mechanism to manage and govern change and variations with robust records.
  • Apply advanced scheduling (CPM and Critical Chain) and time–cost trade-off analysis.
  • Establish a project controls system supporting reporting, cost control, and early deviation forecasting.
  • Perform essential project cash flow analysis linked to contractual events.
  • Use negotiation and ADR approaches to select effective dispute pathways and minimise escalation.

Training Topics Index

  • Principles of good contracting and why contracts matter
  • Contract creation steps and essential validity elements

• Tendering and award

benefits and pitfalls

  • Bonds, guarantees, LOIs, comfort letters, and side letters
  • Authority, delegation, and defining contract management responsibilities

  • Risk identification, assessment, and allocation
  • Embedding risk management within contract mechanisms
  • Lump sum vs schedule of rates vs reimbursable comparison
  • EPC, BOT/BOOT, alliance/partnering models
  • Warranty management and accountability alignment

  • Design/specification and performance obligations
  • Work orders, approvals, and handover controls
  • Title transfer, risk of damage, and liabilities
  • Administration, reporting, and cost control mechanisms
  • Insurance, indemnities, termination, and suspension

  • Understanding change types and contractual triggers
  • Scope, quantity, time, and method changes
  • Preventing uncontrolled change through governance
  • Using and modifying standard forms; drafting special conditions
  • Subcontract issues and flow-down consistency

• Dispute drivers

errors, ambiguity, and documentation gaps

  • Change tracking, expectation management, and communication
  • Negotiation stages and techniques for settlement
  • Litigation/arbitration and ADR options (mediation, DRB, expert)
  • Case studies and emerging practices (e-contracting)

  • What projects are and why organisations use them
  • Project lifecycle models and delivery systems
  • Selecting the project manager and success criteria
  • Stakeholder identification, analysis, and engagement
  • Qualitative and quantitative project evaluation

  • Task characteristics, duration estimation, and resources

• CPM versus Critical Chain

selection and application

  • Resource allocation, constraints, and lead/lag logic
  • Time–cost trade-off techniques
  • Building and maintaining a controlled baseline schedule

  • Risk vs uncertainty and organisational risk attitudes
  • Risk sources and identification approaches
  • Qualitative and quantitative analysis (probability/impact)
  • Response strategies and contingency planning
  • Integrating risk into schedule, cost, and contract controls

  • Lean strategies for project execution environments
  • Staff acquisition, team development, and motivation
  • Leadership vs management styles
  • Conflict handling and cross-functional coordination
  • Performance improvement and waste reduction

  • Integrated project controls (scope/cost/schedule)
  • Earned Value reporting for accomplishment measurement
  • Implementing risk responses during execution

• Closing

handover, lessons learned, and claims closure

  • Final performance review and improvement roadmap