Inside An Outstanding Project

Patrick Mayfield of the Positive Outlier Academy, interviews Linda Capper, Head of Communications, and Andy Jeffries, Programme Manager about the fascinating and encouraging project to build a £200 million state-of-the-art polar research vessel. 00:00 What is the British Antarctic Survey? 04:00 The story behind the RRS Sir David Attenborough (Linda) 05:33 Rationale for changing from two ships to one 09:20 The major challenges of managing the ship-building project (Andy) 12:15 Project maintenance period 12:59 Is the project on schedule? 15:40 Stakeholders and the communications strategy (Linda) 20:25 Creating a project culture and values 22:40 Collaboration (Andy) 23:15 Building trust 23:30 Future-proofing the project with a change budget 25:45 How can a public project justify a change budget? 28:35 What is your no.1 piece of advice about stakeholder engagement? (Linda) 30:35 How is the UK Government rating this high-profile project? (Andy) 32:30 How has the Antarctic summer season affected the planning? 34:15 How many ship-building projects have you managed before? 34:50 But project managers have claimed that domain experience is paramount... 36:00 Also, project managers often get focused on the deliverable and not the outcome, don't they? 37:40 The global rationale of this work 39:05 There was a problem with the naming of the boat... (Linda) 46:50 What is this long-range submersible? (Andy) 52:40 Would you like to 'call the gold out in each other'? (Both) For more information on engaging stakeholders effectively and leading change well, visit https://patrickmayfield.com