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Projects, Operations & Commercial Excellence5-day executive programUSD $1,999

DevOps & Platform Engineering Foundations

Deliver software continuously — CI/CD, reliability, and platform teams.

IPAT Executive Certificate 5 intensive days Project sponsors and owners' teams, programme and PMO leaders, operations and plant directors, supply chain and commercial leaders, contractors' executives.
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The executive challenge

The problem this program solves

Your capital programme is over budget and behind schedule again, and the devops dashboard is reporting green — because it measures what is reported, not what is real. Milestone politics teaches teams to report progress instead of truth — and the data you would need to intervene rots behind the reporting. You will practise the hard calls — delay, money or scope — with faculty who have made them for real, and learn the judgement before it gets expensive.

Context

Why this matters now

Commercial pressure is relentless: devops productivity, not price, is the surviving lever.
Digital controls and real-time analytics make devops performance visible — concealing slippage is no longer viable.
Supply chains have moved from cost centre to strategic battleground — devops resilience now prices into contracts.

Capability

What you will be able to do

  • Govern devops programmes so they deliver on time, cost and purpose.
  • Negotiate devops claims and variations from strength, not hope.
  • Stress-test devops supply chains and operations for resilience, not just cost.
  • Read a devops programme from its data — schedule, cost and quality signals — before visiting site.

The IPAT Course Standard

The five-day journey

Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.

IPAT Signature Case™

The Terminal That Cannot Breathe

A container terminal operator’s largest customer threatens to divert after repeated congestion and a wildcat strike. Automation is possible but requires a 30% workforce reduction and government consent; the devops projections worsen under every delay.

Your decision: Choose automation, expansion, or a labour compact — and live with the traffic forecast that follows.

Berth productivity benchmarkingAutomation business caseLabour and concession constraints

IPAT Data Lab™

A programme portfolio at an infrastructure contractor cannot see which projects are quietly failing.

Dataset: Synthetic cost, schedule and quality data for a 25-project portfolio at an infrastructure contractor.

Your task: Diagnose the overrun drivers, separate noise from signal, and design recovery for the worst three.

A project performance dashboard and intervention plan.

Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate

Day 5 · The Capstone

What will you change when you return to work?

Build the delivery blueprint for your organisation's most important programme: governance, controls, commercial strategy and the first 90 days.

You leave with: Transformation Delivery Blueprint

Methodology

Frameworks you will master

IPAT-proprietary methodology
  • • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
  • • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
Established practice you will apply
  • • Stage-gate delivery governance
  • • Earned value management
  • • Lean and Six Sigma foundations

Cohorts

Upcoming cohorts

New dates are being scheduled

Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.

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