District STEM Academy Program
Three schools, three contractors and three first days of term, reported to the district as one program.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- K–12 Education
- Our role
- Program controls
- Scale
- 3 schools
- Completed
- 2023
Program-level controls for three STEM schools, each with a first-day-of-term date that could not move.
The district was delivering three STEM schools at once, each with its own contractor, budget and schedule. Each school had to open on the first day of term. The district’s capital office was getting three different reports, in three formats, with no way to compare progress or see where contingency was being spent.
The approach.
- 01
A program controls framework
We set one work breakdown structure, one cost code structure and one reporting calendar for all three schools.
- 02
Schedules reviewed against one standard
Every contractor schedule update was reviewed for logic, float and critical path, then rolled up into a program summary.
- 03
Contingency held at program level
Contingency drawdown was tracked by school and by risk, so the district could move funds before a shortfall, not after.
- 04
Opening-date dashboards
A Power BI dashboard showed each school’s float to the first day of term, updated every two weeks.
The outcome.
“A school opening date does not move. Our job was to tell the district, early and in plain numbers, whether each school would make it.”
Program controls manager, KonradBeck
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