Strategic Programme and Portfolio Management: Berlin Airport Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Berlin Airport program, focusing on strategic program and portfolio management. It begins with an introduction to strategic programs and their objectives, followed by an analysis of the program approach, organizational structure, and contracting methods used. The report delves into the timeline of key events and the factors contributing to project overruns, including the roles of stakeholders, contractors, and cost estimators. It also examines the issues faced by the company, such as construction delays, bankruptcies, and logistical challenges. The report concludes with a summary of the findings, emphasizing the impact of these issues on the aviation company and the importance of effective program management and contracting approaches. The report highlights the need for proactive solutions to address financial losses and enhance business productivity. The report is based on the Berlin Airport program and its challenges.

Strategic Programme and Portfolio
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Analyse the programme approach..........................................................................................1
Organisational structure and processes,.................................................................................1
Contracting approach..............................................................................................................2
Timeline of key events and any other key areas relevant to the overruns..............................3
Issues faced by the company..................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
References:.......................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The term strategic program can de delineated to a coherent set of programme practices
which are designed for attainment of set of objectives or a specified goal. The programme as a
whole has well-defined objectives, and each initiative within it contributes to achieving those
objectives. In a company, program managers are responsible to oversee attainment of wider
business goals and coordinate efforts among distinct projects without supervision of any one.
Rather, they lead overall program with strong focus or attention towards strategy, execution
together with delegation (Seki and Sekiguchi, 2018). They are less concerned with the success of
any particular project and are instead focused on the overall initiative's success and
accomplishing the greater good. This report is based on the Berlin Airport programme, this
report will cover the analysis of issues it has faced while working and after that it will explain
the organizational structure that makes it more beneficial and how it impact the company
operations.
MAIN BODY
Analyse the programme approach
The programme attack is a process that assists governing to form country preferences
improvement aims and to analyses these aims via related to national programme created and
executed in a coherence, interconnected and democratic manner to ensure property. It is essential
to shape programme as it aids in managing diverse changing costs, support staff as well as
understand change process, align resources within company to support changes and reduce time
that is required in implementing changes (Lima, Fernandes and Machado, 2019). The supporter
works with investors as early as accomplishable to create a programme by establishing.
Formative the programmer to achieve the vision definite quantity the helper and programmer
director to select and organism projects and other business-as-usual human action. In the
programme, manager facilitate communication among cross-functional team of programme,
provide strategic guidance and coordinate multiple projects as well as reconcile
interdependencies.
Organisational structure and processes,
Organisational structure is even more formal than organic structure, governing every
business decision with specified standards and norms. While this model does make employees
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more accountable for their job, it can also limit the organization's ability to innovate and adapt to
changing market conditions. In functional structure, employees are groups as per their skill,
specialty or concerned responsibilities (de Medeiros, de Moura and Oliveira, 2019). The
structure relies on ranking system which comprises several departments of units under guidance
of designated authority or leadership. It works vertically with higher authorities for each
department at top that lead mid-level managers that further guide entry level workforce. In the
structure, employees have fixed role and they are accountable to functional manager. In aspect to
the programme, people in functional structure works in department with close relationship and
communicate on regular basis to achieve unique goals. The people in the structure have unique
potentiality or competences which permit them to work efficiently which contributes in enhanced
productivity. A manager must determine the organization's vertical decision-making and
horizontal coordination relationships. A manager should then design the relationships using the
organization chart.
Contracting approach
Contracting approach is termed to a particular procedure which is used in larger umbrella of
procedure method with the hope of targeting particular practices or project objectives (Mikkelsen
and Marnewick, 2020). The service supplied is specified in a post-condition. Operation calls, or
requests for services, are always mentioned in contracts between classes. The contract's pre-
condition specifies the requirements that must be followed in order to call an action. This pre-
conditioning must be observed by the client. The client must particularly guarantee that the
relevant conditions are met. The term used as test questions in the per-condition must be
accessible via the provider's interface for the client to meet this obligation. If the re-condition is
not yet met, the client can test for observation of the ere-condition and establish the needed state
before calling an operation. They can make a substantial step toward the accuracy and reliability
of our software system by asserting assertions within the interaction between clients and service
providers.
Correctness in this context refers to the concordance of specification and execution. They
want to make sections of a behavior specification contained in the class text checkable by using
invariants and pre- and post-conditions (Chien, Kuo and Lin, 2022). As a result, the contract
model assists us in. Mental test is produced from contracts that facilitate the production of test
input values and test oracles in the input written agreement testing approach. With a GUI test
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driver that induces mouse chink and come in text into rich case GUIs, this unique approach
shows that an autonomous input testing process is achievable. Contracts provide useful
information about the software's intended semantics in this circumstance. The validity of a
software element can be determined by examining the software in relation to its contracts, as
point out. Contracts lay the foundation for the testing process to be automated. As a outcome, the
fundamental purpose of input contract testing is to create and deploy a completely automated test
case creation system for contract-based systems. When organization recognize a need or is
approached by a client for a specific project, the contract procurement process begins. Once the
contract is given and signed, the process is complete, however there are numerous steps to get
from end to end process.
the timeline of key events and any other key areas relevant to the overruns
The owner and stakeholder group is the person or group that has organisational
responsibility for the project and is in charge of marketing and supporting it as it grows. The
project sponsor is someone who is enthusiastic about the project and wants it to succeed (Silva,
Pereira and Magano, 2021). The sponsor is usually a top executive or management inside the
company. management is vital in the early stages of any proposed enterprise. They is in charge
of integrating the project's strategic purpose and Following it, success or failure. The sponsor's
focus is frequently on project economics and obtaining the finest project at the lowest cost in the
shortest amount of time.
Most sponsors are only involved in the creation of projects on occasion, that is, projects are
not a regular occurrence for them(Lukianov, Mazhei and Gogunskii, 2019). "Most commercial
enterprise sponsors are unprepared to undertake huge technical projects since previous project
directors have moved on. Corporate memory of Berlin airports programme is generally limited,
and experience is also insufficient. direction with the organization's usual operations, and his
name is oftentimes associated with the project's success or failure.
The patron primary focus is usually on program economic science and obtaining the finest
project possible. The general contractor is the final major player. It is one of the most important
participants in the project development game, because building expenses are often the most
changeable during the project's execution phase. Based on his previous experience or in-house
databases, a contractor can provide estimates or predicted unit rates for the defined or planned
scope of work. A contractor must balance his ambition to get a contract with the danger of
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underbidding while delivering pricing (Andersson, Getz and Jutbring, 2020). The contractor's
contribution is generally limited in the early stages of project creation, not by choice, but because
the other three main participants frequently make assumptions about what would likely occurs
while the execution. Because some large consulting/managements firms have or are linked with
important contracting firms, the line between adviser and transport can erstwhile be bleary when
it comes to major capital projects. This classification can lead to a conflict of interest, with the
consultancy arm promoting a project to help the building part of the company. When treatment
with businesses that intend to fulfil both the adviser and builder roles on an undertaking, this
reality must be taken into account.
When producing estimates, cost estimators begin with the most likely forecast or estimate
for known activities (Brones, Zancul and Carvalho, 2020). They will estimation the most bullish
and bearish values for each act, then perform a computer simulation to come up with a leaden
estimate, after checking the correctness of such estimations. Withal, if the range estimation are
too constricting, or if there is a bias toward the most upbeat projections, the calculator is very
likely to make an optimistic estimate. In and of itself, estimating poses a significant project risk.
Calculator must make premise about the scope of the project and how it will be completed.
Information regarding future events and supposition about the future are examples of knowledge
gaps.
Issues faced by the company
As a result, in the year 2006, German authorities proclaimed the initiation of construction
on Airport of Willy Brandt Berlin Brandenburg, which would replace Tegel. Berlin Brandenburg
Airport is largest addition to most complex infrastructure projects in field of transportation in
Germany. Willy Brandt was the forerunner of the German Social Democratic Party as well as the
Federal Republic of Germany's Chancellor. Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH is in charge of
the airport construction project (FBB). The building site is right near to the low-cost Schonefeld
Airport, which it will also replace, and I suppose it will use their runways. After Frankfurt and
Munich, the new airport was anticipated to overtake Dusseldorf as Germany's third busiest
(Cheah, Yoneyama and Ho, 2019).
In June 2010, the airport corp, FBB, proclaimed that the ‘pushful’ October 2011 point for
opening could not be met because of, other property, the bankruptcy of the construction planning
company, Planung sgemeins chaft Berlin-Brandenburg International.
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In the year 2010, FBB which was airport corporation who announced ‘Ambitious’
October 2011 deadline in order to not met open as other situation, such as bankruptcy of
construction planning organisation which as Planung Sgemians craft Berlin Brandenburg
International (Plantinga, Voordijk and Dorée, 2020).
The 2012 beginning date appeared to be a certainty, with Berlin's civil authority declaring
that are on agenda," to the extent where air hose changed their schedules to match trading
operations at the new airport. The massive logistical effort of transferring so much substructure
from Tegel Berlin's secondary, low-low-priced airport, to Brandenburg in just a few days was
planned to ensure that mercantile collection into and out of the urban center was not disrupted.
With replacement of Airport, there is usually a time period of time when no formation fly
to either drome so that the substructure can be regain. Everyone intelligibly wants that time to be
as brief as accomplishable, and it is normally only a matter of hours instead than days(Salvado,
de Almeida and e Azevedo, 2018).
It means that no airline will use Brandenburg as a copulative hub, increasing issues about
why Berlin required such a large aerodrome so far away from the metropolis, especially because
all passengers will have to travel to and from the airport for every trip. It's not different for
leading airports like Tokio Narita to be placed far from the cities they serve, because proximity is
less important when there are many people connecting.
CONCLUSION
It is terminated from above report that aviation company has seen a huge loss while the other
business also get impacted with the company and its activity. This is implied at the time
bankruptcy and its activity that the company has break down on the wealth and income this is
also analysed that that must go for solutions on the issues that raises the income . As been
above discussed in above report that contract approach and it implications that is been analysed
and also they have to be more attractive and makes the business productive.
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