PPMP 20011
Commercial Project Negotiation for
Project Managers
Practical Assessment 1: Projects Negotiation and
Conflict Report
Prepared by:
Richard Egelstaff PMP, Ph.D (c), MBA (Adv), BA
Discipline Leader for Project Management,
School of Engineering & Technology
Higher Education Division
CQUniversity RockhamptonTopics
• Qld Health Payroll
• Practical Assessment 1: Projects Negotiation
and Conflict Report
2. The Projects;
3. The Participants;
4. The Negotiation Interaction Process;
5. The Negotiation Methods;
6. The Outcome.
2QLD Health Payroll
• YouTube:
– QH Payroll Disaster Case Study - News Roll-up from 2010 to
2013
• Case Study Files for Practical Assessments:
– 2012-05-31
• KPMG QLD Health Payroll Implementation Review
– 2012-11-01
• Secret Cabinet documents emerge - Courier Mail
– 2013-07-31
• Queensland Health Payroll System Commission of Inquiry Report
– 2014-01-23
• Grosser M 2014 Legal lessons - Government News
– 2014-12-14
• Eden Sedera 2013 The Largest Admitted IT Project Failure in the
Southern Hemisphere
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Conflict Report
• Dates:
– Posted template in week 6
– Due in week 8
• Purpose:
– The Projects Negotiation and Conflict Report is a communication tool that is
used as the basis for managing negotiation, identifying conflict areas and
stakeholder engagement.
• Sources:
– KPMG 2012 Review of the Queensland Health Payroll System;
– Peña-Mora F., and Tamaki T. 2001. Effect of Delivery Systems on
Collaborative Negotiations for Large -Scale Infrastructure Projects;
– Alfredson T., & Cungu A. 2008. Negotiation Theory and Practice;
– Walker and Walker 2015 Collaborative Project Procurement Arrangements;
– Kerzner Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling
and Controlling (2013);
– Directing plus Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 (2009);
– A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide)
5th Edition (2013).
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Conflict Report
• KPMG 2012 Review of the Queensland Health Payroll
System
– Recommendations (p. 9 & 36-38):
– Project:
1. Forward strategy for payroll system;
2. Governance and decision-making;
3. People and change;
4. Funding.
– Template Structure:
1. Program Information;
2. The Projects;
3. The Participants;
4. The Negotiation Interaction Process;
5. The Negotiation Methods;
6. The Outcome.
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Conflict Report
2. The Projects
– Walker & Walker (2015) Collaborative Project
Procurement Arrangements Chapter 2:
• The Shenhar et al. Diamond Perspective: NCTP (p. 7);
• The Turner and Cochrane Four-quadrant Perspective (p. 9);
• Projects from an Organizational Learning Process
Perspective (p. 9);
• Projects from an Identity Perspective (p. 10);
• Projects from a Complex Product-Services Perspective (p.
12);
– Your Task for each Project:
• What are the project characteristics?
• What are your justifications for these characteristics?
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Conflict Report
3. The Participants
– Peña-Mora and Tamaki (2001) state (p. 107-108) that:
• project participants’ roles, responsibilities, and relationships
are used to identify their interests, positions, and attitudes…
…and the potential conflicts in those relationships.
– Peña-Mora and Tamaki also identify that there are
three participants:
• Owner, Designers, Contractors
– Your Task for each Project:
• The negotiating position of the Owner, Designers, and
Contractors
• The potential conflicts in relationships that the Owner,
Designers, and Contractors may have.
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Conflict Report
4. The Negotiation Interaction Process
– Alfredson & Cungu (2008) state (p. 107-108) that
there are five possible approaches to negotiation:
• approaches in negotiation (p. 9-18):
• a structural approach;
• a strategic approach;
• a behavioural approach;
• a concessional exchange approach;
• an integrative approach.
– Your Task for each Project:
• Our recommended negotiating position.
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Conflict Report
5. The Negotiation Methods
– Alfredson & Cungu (2008) (p. 18) provide summaries
of their approaches;
– Kerzner (2013) (p. 1164) also provides negotiation
methods;
– Your Task for each Project:
• Your recommended negotiating position – words or JPG
mindmap.
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Conflict Report
6. The Outcome
– Walker and Walker (2015) identify three broad procurement approaches (p.
16-37):
• 1A Design Bid Build (DBB) (p. 17);
• 1B Cost reimbursement (Cost-Plus) (p. 18);
• 2A Design and Construct (D&C) (p. 19);
• 2B integrated Supply Chain Management (SCM) (p. 20+);
• 2C Management Contracting (MC) (p. 21);
• 2D consortia of Joint Venture (JV) contractors (p. 21+);
• 2E the Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) family (p. 23+);
• 3A partnering philosophies (p. 25+);
• 3B integrated solutions; including Competitive Dialogue (CD), Integrated Project
Delivery (IDP) and delivery consortia/partner philosophies (p. 27+);
• 3C alliancing including Project Alliances (PA), Design Alliances (DA) and program
Service Alliances (SA) (p. 29+);
• 4 Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) (p. 35);
• 5 Framework agreements (p. 36).
– Your Task for each Project:
• Your preferred form of procurement as an outcome from the negotiation process.
10Summary
• Qld Health Payroll
• Practical Assessment 1: Projects Negotiation
and Conflict Report
2. The Projects;
3. The Participants;
4. The Negotiation Interaction Process;
5. The Negotiation Methods;
6. The Outcome.
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