Without a delivery plan for your decarbonisation programme, securing resource and funding at the right time to make your projects happen will be challenging.

Understanding realistic timescales for individual activities and being able to combine them into a plan enables you to:

• Identify and plan out deliverables. 
• Identify and secure the required resources for your deliverables. 
• Identify, map and monitor your dependencies and critical path. 
• Undertake financial planning and proposed spend management against deliverables. 
• Ensure deliverables are complete at the right point. 

When considering your plan, it is worth taking into account two main elements:

• Overall strategy delivery – how you are going to approach, monitor, report on and deliver decarbonisation at a summary level (e.g. at your estate or portfolio level).
• Project/programme delivery – how you are going to approach, monitor, report on and deliver decarbonisation at a specific project or deliverable level (e.g. at building / intervention / task level). An effective plan provides a tool that your team and partners can use to identify, consider, agree, and manage activities required to deliver desired outcomes, as well as providing a conduit from your specific project to your wider strategy to ensure everything is joined up. 

Depending on the complexity of your strategy or individual projects, you will want to consider if having dedicated specialist project managers is a good use of resource.

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