Optimizing:

• Are your project's resources (time, equipment and money) properly allocated to generate value?
• Is your organization provided with the strategic and adaptive capacity needed to first develop an strategic plan, and then to optimally adapt it until your objectives are met?
• Is your organization capable of handling contingencies and responding dynamically to changing situations by proposing alternative planning, design, operation or contractual conditions keeping the project within scope?
• Are there relevant activities in your project deserving of specific analysis to optimize costs, deadlines, product quality or functional failure risks?
• Are you managing your procurement system to improve procurements' performance by minimizing the consumption of financial resources and at the same time maximizing new assets' life and return?

Analyzing:

• Is your organization aware of the risks and opportunities that each of the activities of your project, whether independently or combined, pose on its objectives of deadlines, payoff, financial balance, compliance with the contract or functional failures?
• Are there planning proposals on the table with which to mitigate the vulnerabilities identified in the project, and strengthen its resilience?
• Is your supervision and control system correctly focused on the activities with the greatest impact?
• Does your strategy present an adequate Balance of Risks and Opportunities that protects you from the former, and keeps you receptive to the latter?

Deal-making:

• Are you aware of the risks and opportunities posed by each possible solution, and made your decisions accordingly?
• Have your agreement model fully understood stakeholders interests, and properly represented the implications each decision alternative bores to the stakeholders?
• Does your organization have a negotiation system allowing them understand others' interests and make themselves understood, thus discarding unrealistic expectations, helping focusing the discussion in the scope of what is possible, and improving the efficiency of the negotiating process?
• Is your organization ready to overcome obstacles and handle the risks and opportunities posed by organizational, financial or political reasons or stakeholder groups?
• Has the structure of your agreement been fully tested through the entire range of possible solutions, including the different alternatives for scheduling activities, deadline commitments, design alternatives and available contractual mechanisms?