2014 Commonwealth Games
Special Events
Glasgow
500+ million
Project Highlights
Glasgow 2014
Special Events
£500+ million
Glasgow 2014
Glasgow 2014
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Project Overview
This project involved the 2+ years of preparation works to successfully deliver the Commonwealth Games for a 2 week period in 2014. This was the largest multi-sport event ever held in Scotland with around 5,000 athletes from 71 different nations competing.
To ensure that the 2 week event went smoothly, over 100 individual specialist elements had to be prepared over the 2+ years prior to the event, including accommodation, transport, clothing, security, etc .
Services Provided
A detailed audit of the original master programme for all the key disciplines / supply chains
Plan Ahead re-built the overall programmes for all 115 technical disciplines
Detailed 1st principles planning supported by discipline expert leads
Weekly progress reporting
Interface maintenance
Designed and managed a complex discipline interface strategy
How we made a difference
Plan Ahead provided expert programme management services to re-establish a robust master programme. Interface milestones and a supporting tracker were introduced along with activity count analysis. These simple but effective controls enabled the progress of each discipline to be monitored effectively, while early warning of their impacts to other disciplines could be easily tracked.
All this gave overall clarity, both at discipline and portfolio level, to enable the senior Glasgow 2014 team to make quick effective decisions. Such a relatively short delivery timeline for a one-off event was particularly challenging and required some innovative and unique approaches which Plan Ahead provided.