Industry
Energy
Services
agile_project_management
capital_projects
Advanced Industrial Controls
Key disciplines
Civil/Structural
Control Systems
Electrical
Piping
Industry
Energy
Services
agile_project_management
capital_projects
Advanced Industrial Controls
Key disciplines
Civil/Structural
Control Systems
Electrical
Piping
The client embarked on upgrading the safety instrumented system (SIS) across their refinery network, which created multiple challenging infrastructure upgrade projects. The Anvil team was faced with challenging schedules, limited resources, and unique design constraints.
Our team utilized an Agile Project Management methodology to execute these projects and counteract the aggressive schedule and resource constraints. Anvil reworked the project schedule to reduce typical review cycle times; utilizing an Agile Sprint Format, review cycles were increased from every eight weeks to every week. Under this methodology, Scrum Teams were formed, allowing the project team more flexibility to approach various issues concurrently.
Multiple P&ID reviews were conducted each week to reduce schedule slippage, capture client and supplier input, and to support forward planning. These collaborative sessions were vital to navigating the complexity of this project.
The project team was able to complete the original scope of work within twenty-six weeks, nine weeks ahead of schedule. Due to the use of Agile Project Management, multiple change orders were avoided, allowing the team to outperform the budget and also absorb costly trends.
In the Scrum team review sessions, our team also discovered serious structural issues that they were able to address, ultimately saving the client millions of dollars in avoided cost.

Client, Scrum Master