Chapter 7 Learnings
| Alliances are complex transactions and much has been learnt by Owners, NOPs and advisers about how to optimise VfM. This Chapter provides typical comments from these alliance Participants which may be useful for consideration in developing and implementing future alliance contracts. Some of these learnings are incorporated in this Guide. Readers of this Guide are encouraged to submit their own insights, learnings and issues for potential inclusion in updates that will be made from time-to-time. |
These learnings are grouped according to a generic project life cycle below recognising that many of the insights will span several stages.
Many of the learnings and insights below are provided as a summary of comments or quotations which reflect the actual words used. These are not attributed to individuals to maintain confidentiality. These learnings and insights were collected over a period of 18 months as part of a consultation process about alliancing across Australia.
A great deal of literature continues to be produced that is focussed on the positive, comfortable messaging of alliancing. This chapter attempts to open the discussion on learning, encouraging both comfortable and uncomfortable learnings.