Lecture 1: Project Management Flashcards
Project Management
What is a Project?
An endeavor that is undertaken to produce the results that are expected from the requesting party
Components of a Project
Scope: work to be accomplished, quantity and quality, fundamental to budget and schedule, failure to define = problems
Budget: How much money can owner spend? How much for design? For construction? Increasing overruns = decreasing profits
Schedule: Sequencing and timing of activities, basis for project management, necessary for tracking and control
Scope + Budget + Schedule = Quality
Phases of a Project
- Project conception
- Conceptual design
- Preliminary design
- Final design
- Procurement
- Construction
- Project close-out
Project Conception
Owner’s needs for project, usually with rather vague concept (written descriptions, sketches), list of required spaces and equipment, owner usually has difficulty explaining exactly his need but has well defined pieces of the project in mind
Conceptual Design
Draw up a design services contract, prepare detailed program description including the needs and desires of the owner, establish a pre-design construction estimate, prepare a schematic design or alternatives, perform feasibility study
Preliminary Design
Design contract must be signed by this stage, program and budget and main design direction have been established in previous phase
Detailed Design
Plans (working drawings, show a graphical representation of every item in the facility sized and located to the fraction of an inch), specifications (written description of every material in the project), preparation of construction contract documents
Procurement
Construction contracts, special equipment, bulk materials
Construction
Complete work, monitor and track, manage risks, align with goals
Project Close-Out
System testing, final inspection, as-built drawing, lessons learned
Steps in Project Management
- Definition: intended use, conceptual component
- Scope: define work, identify quantity and quality
- Budget: define budget, identify costs
- Planning: assign staff, identify tasks
- Scheduling: sequence activities, link costs/resources to activities
- Tracking: measure work and time and costs, compare “actual” to “planned”
- Close-out: final inspection, archive document, transfer to owner
Project Success Criteria
Meet safety goals, finish within budget, meet quality goals, finish on schedule
12 Golden Rules of Project Management
- Fain consensus on project outcomes
- Build the best team you can
- Develop a plan and keep it up to date
- Determine what you need to get things done
- Have a realistic schedule
- Do not try to do too much
- Remember that people count
- Gain support of management and stakeholders
- Be willing to change
- Keep others informed of what you are doing
- Be willing to try new things
- Become a leader