SELF-PACED COURSE · START ANY TIME · AT EVERY GATE
Run gates that make real decisions.
Most gate processes exist on paper. The gates review documents, every project gets waved through, and the surprises still arrive after FID. Mastering the Decision Gate Process shows teams how to turn gates back into investment decisions, from idea to FID.
SELF-PACED COURSE
Mastering the Decision Gate Process
A self-paced course for people who own, run or rely on a decision gate process. Short lessons, a toolkit of 16 Excel tools, and a maturity assessment you take at the start and again in Module 6, so you can see what changed. It shows where framing fits before Gate 1. How to frame a project is taught live in the Opportunity Framing Practitioner cohort.
Team and company options can be invoiced or paid by purchase order.
WHO IT'S FOR
Setting it up
PMO, governance and portfolio leads who want a process that fits, not a copied template.
Fixing it
Sponsors and decision-makers who want gate reviews to be decisions again, including the decision to stop.
Working in it
Project and development managers who need to know what each gate needs from them.
The whole team
Team and company options, so a project team or a whole organization learns the same process.
8 modules
About 30 short lessons, start any time
16 Excel tools
All in one toolkit
1 maturity check
At the start and again in Module 6
THE CURRICULUM · SELF-PACED · START ANY TIME
8 modules, from why gates fail to keeping them working
MODULE 0
Start here
How the course works, choosing your project, and your baseline maturity assessment.
MODULE 1
Why projects fail, and how gates fix it
Four reasons projects fail, and the move from activity-based to decision-driven.
MODULE 2
How the decision gate process works
Phases, gates and front-end loading, roles, categorization and scaling.
MODULE 3
Before Gate 1: where framing fits
What a project must have before Gate 1, and when to frame again.
MODULE 4
Making good decisions at the gates
Decision review boards, gate requirements, the Decision Quality Wheel and bias.
MODULE 5
Risk and assurance across the lifecycle
Managing risk phase by phase, and assurance reviews that build confidence.
MODULE 6
Rolling it out in your organization
Retake the maturity assessment, avoid common pitfalls and build your 6-month plan.
MODULE 7
Keeping it working
Measures, the improvement cycle and the lessons-learned workshop.
YOUR TRAINER
Iwona Wilson
Iwona learned the decision gate process on the front end of major capital projects at Woodside in Perth, and has since worked on projects in the UK, Australia and the US. She teaches every lesson in this course.
QUESTIONS
Is it live?
No. It's self-paced: start any time and work through it at your own pace.
Does it teach how to frame a project?
It explains where framing fits before Gate 1. How to frame a project is taught live in the Opportunity Framing Practitioner cohort.
Can my employer pay?
Yes. Team and company options can be invoiced or paid by purchase order.
Does it replace our gate process?
No. It helps you understand, set up or fix your own process, whatever it's called.
Training a team in person?
We also teach this course in-house on your own process (2 hours, 4 hours or 1 day), and run Capital Projects for Non-Technical Roles.
Want to learn how to frame a project, live? The Opportunity Framing Practitioner cohort starts Wed 18 November. Enrollment closes Sat 14 November.