Achieving Clarity

Tools and Techniques for Defining Project Purpose Building on the first pillar, this post explores concrete practices for establishing and maintaining clarity of purpose in project teams. Ben Webb highlights that clarity “isn’t optional” but the foundation of EPD. Here’s how modern project managers can ensure this pillar is effectively implemented: Signs of Success: When…

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The Six Pillars of Enabling Project Delivery (EPD) – An Overview

The EPD model Ben Webb’s EPD model rests on six foundational pillars. Each pillar is a guiding principle that together creates a robust delivery environment. The pillars are: Clarity of Purpose, Leadership & Accountability, Decision Readiness, Team Enablement, Compliance Integration, and Progressive Documentation. Across industries from infrastructure to software, Webb finds that projects thrive when…

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Pillar 1 – Clarity of Purpose:

The Key to Aligning Your Project The first pillar of EPD is Clarity of Purpose. Webb warns that many projects start with excitement but without a shared understanding of success. He explains that teams often discover too late “That’s not what we thought the scope was” or “We didn’t realise that was the actual objective”.…

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About Ben Webb

Ben Webb — Founder of EPD (Enabling Project Delivery)

EPD was created by Ben Webb, an award-winning Australian Project Manager recognised for delivering complex, high-stakes projects where governance, stakeholders and execution collide.

Ben was awarded Australia’s Leading Project Manager (AIPM, 2022) and has spent more than two decades leading projects across infrastructure, hospitality, major events, tourism and public-facing environments — often under intense scrutiny, immovable deadlines, and competing interests.

EPD is not a theoretical model.
It is the product of lived delivery experience — built from projects where failure was public, delays were expensive, and “status reporting” alone would never have been enough.

Why EPD Exists

After years working inside traditional project frameworks, Ben saw the same problems repeat:

  • Projects drowning in reports but starved of decisions
  • Governance structures designed to protect process, not outcomes
  • Teams busy, compliant — and quietly drifting
  • Risks documented weekly and realised anyway

EPD was developed as a counter-model.

A delivery method that prioritises:

  • Decision velocity over perfect information
  • Clear accountability over shared ambiguity
  • Governance that enables action
  • Leadership behaviour over administrative compliance

EPD formalises what experienced delivery leaders already know — and gives teams a practical way to apply it consistently.

Where Ben Has Applied EPD Thinking

Ben’s delivery experience spans:

  • Large-scale infrastructure and precinct projects
  • Complex hospitality and venue developments
  • High-profile public events with national visibility
  • Multi-stakeholder programs involving government, sponsors, operators and communities

Across these environments, the same principles held true:
projects succeed when decisions are made early, ownership is explicit, and governance supports momentum rather than constrains it.

EPD captures those principles in a repeatable, teachable framework.

Ben Webb Today

Today, Ben applies EPD as:

  • A delivery advisor to complex and at-risk projects
  • A governance and operating-model specialist
  • A mentor to senior project leaders and executives
  • A writer and commentator on modern project delivery, leadership, and decision-making

EPD continues to evolve through active use — not academic distance.

Learn More or Work With Ben

  • Learn more about Ben’s broader work and experience at benwebb.au
  • Explore how EPD can be applied to your project by booking a discovery call

EPD is the method.
Ben Webb is the practitioner behind it.