WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
A New Operating Model for Capital Projects
The book connects proven delivery principles with emerging AI capabilities to create a faster, more adaptive approach to complex capital projects.
From Linear to Adaptive Delivery
Replace premature scope freezing with short learning cycles, rapid feedback and decisions informed by emerging evidence.
Right-to-Left Planning
Begin with the intended outcome and organize delivery around the smallest valuable steps needed to achieve it.
Agentic Pods
Combine human expertise with AI collaborators in integrated teams that anticipate risks, coordinate work and accelerate decisions.
Modularity and Reuse
Stop treating every project as entirely unique. Reuse proven systems, designs, data and delivery patterns wherever they create value.
Leadership at the Edge
Move decision-making closer to the people doing the work. Create clear intent, shared accountability and the autonomy needed to respond quickly as conditions change.
Data as the Delivery Engine
Turn historical project information from a passive archive into a living asset that improves forecasting, design, coordination and execution.
Inside the Book
A 433-page examination of why capital projects underperform—and how leaders can build a more adaptive delivery model.
Part I: A Changing Reality
Explore the scale of capital-project underperformance, why megaprojects fail early and how AI is changing the possibilities for delivery.
Selected chapters
- The Capital Project Delivery Revolution
- The 99.5% Failure Rate
- Mega Projects Fail Early
- AI and the Future of Project Delivery
- Beyond Front End Loading
Part II: The Root Causes of Underperformance
Examine the recurring structural problems hidden beneath cost overruns, schedule delays and repeated project failure.
Selected chapters
- Why Projects Fail—Again and Again
- Think Your Project Is Unique? Think Again
- The End of “One and Done”
- The Rigidity Trap
- Fast and Adaptable Construction
Part III: Building the Future Delivery Model
Learn how adaptive processes, modularity, agentic teams, data and new leadership models can transform delivery.
Selected chapters
- From Linear to Adaptive Processes
- Leadership at the Edge
- Modularity as a Model for Adaptive Delivery
- Agentic Pods: The Future of Project Teams
- Data: The Delivery Engine
- From Supply Chains to Value Ecosystems