1. Register your project with us for free.  It will demonstrate your commitment to collaborative working and dispute avoidance.  Then purchase the ROPE Management Core Documentation.
2. Start by using the Core Documentation within your own project environment.  A self assessment planning worksheet is included to help you deploy Rope Management principles.  A free "how-to" video is also available in the use of each of the ROPE Management tools.
3. A one day facilitation meeting is then arranged on-line to review your plan and get you under way.
4. Where your project team requires assistance in making collaborative working a success, CINDAR offers periodic facilitation workshops which can be optionally purchased and used at any time.  It is not necessary (nor is it desirable) for these sessions to be held regularly (e.g., monthly) but are used whenever the project team feels it needs a "mid course correction" or the relationship monitor suggests that some assistance is needed.
5. Whenever an issue arises that may result in conflict or disputation, CINDAR is always on hand to listen and guide the parties through a conflict avoidance process based on project mediation.  Alternatively this can be a project adjudication process where certainty of outcome is desired.  The use of CINDAR to provide these services is mandatory and forms part of the licence arrangement for use of the ROPE Management tool

COLLABORATIVE WORKING

The assumption that recognising the objectives of collaborative working provides people with an understanding of the processes that enable them to implement it is fundamentally flawed.

Trust is a pre-requisite to the attainment of successful relational contracting outcomes.  Much is spoken of the need for trust in collaborative working arrangements yet little of it exists in the construction industry today (or ever did).

Modern forms of contract seek to embody collaborative working principles within contractual relationships in the form of a "spirit of mutual trust and cooperation".  However, many industry clients still seek to take advantage of lower prices when market conditions harden and the converse is true of contractors when prices rise.  Either way, the benefits gained through strategic partnering arrangements common at the turn of the century have, in today's markets, been somewhat lost.  What is required is a means of consistently achieving lowest price on individual projects whilst preserving the benefits that collaborative contracting brings.

ENTER ROPE MANAGEMENT

ROPE Management stands for "Right Outcomes for Project Environments".  If a project can "Start Right, Stay Right and End Right" then the expectations of all project participants are more likely to be met.

ROPE Management is an enhancement to project activity applicable to both traditional and design and build contracts as well as being implicit in relational contracting.  We help you to unlock the value beyond the contract.  ROPE Management is part of our Dispute Resolution and Avoidance Toolbox (DART) and comprises a suite of tools that when used together deliver the best that collaborative working and dispute avoidance has to offer within today's increasingly price conscious market.

THE ROPE MANAGEMENT TOOLKIT

The ROPE Management toolkit comprises:

1. The CINDAR Guide to Collaborative working - a "how to" guide in the use of the tools.
2. A Communications Plan template - to guide collaborative effort and ensure clear, open, lines of communication are maintained.
3. A Risk Management template - to identify, evaluate and manage project risks in a  pro-active manner so that costs can b predicted with greater confidence.
4. A Value Management template - to drive out waste on the project and introduce lean thinking to the construction process.
5. The Relationship  Monitor - to measure the state of the underlying project dynamic and identify potential for disputation.
6. The Project Mediation Rules - to quickly and cost effectively resolve conflict and keep relationships on track.