civl1810 engineering construction and surveying

Project

A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, result, or process improvement

Project attributes

• Unique purpose

• Temporary

• Requires resources

• Involves uncertainty

Project management

The process that helps projects achieve their objectives, the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet the project requirements

Project management processes

• Initiating

• Planning

• Executing

• Monitoring and controlling

• Closing

Stakeholders

People or organizations who are actively involved in the project or whose interests may affect the performance or completion of the project, positively or negatively

Construction Project Management Plan (CPMP)

The document that describes how the project will be executed, monitored, controlled, and closed. It is a day-to-day tool to help manage the project.

CPMP criteria

• Bought

• Approved

• Realistic

• Formal

(BARF)

Project life cycle

A series of phases a project passes through from start to completion. It defines:

• What work will be performed in each phase

• What deliverables will be produced and when

• Who is involved in each phase

Phase

• A set of parallel activities that are carried out to move the project forward

• Provides the information required to make decisions at gate meetings

Gate (meeting)

Used to answer 3 questions so that resource commitments can be made:

• Have the steps in the previous stage been completed?

• Does the project make business sense based upon quantitative and qualitative criteria?

• Is there a plan to enable the project to meet its objectives?

Gate decision

Go, No Go, Hold, or Recycle

Go

Authorizes the movement to the next stage

No Go

Does not authorize the movement of the project to the next stage and eliminates it from further review

Hold

Places the project on hold pending technical, marketing, or environmental changes

Recycle

Sends the team back to the previous stage for further refinement prior to re-submitting for gate approval

Project business case

A documented economic feasibility study used as a basis for authorization of further project management activities. Contains information on business needs, evaluation documentation, analysis of the situation

Project benefits management plan

The documented explaination defining the processes for creating, maximizing, and sustaining the benefits provided by a project. Contains information about target benefits, timeframe for realizing benefits, benefits owner, metrics

Project management process groups

A logical grouping of the project management processes to achieve specific project objectives

Analogous estimating (top-down)

Using the actual cost of previous, similar projects, giving by management as an expectation. Less costly and less precise

Parametric estimating

Uses statistical relationship between historical data and other variables to estimate. Higher levels of accuracy

Bottom-up estimating

The cost of individual activities or work packages rolled up to get the estimate for whole component. It is more accurate and costly

Three-point estimating

Accuracy of a single point cost estimates can be improved by considering estimation uncertainty and risk

Bill of materials (BOM)

Material quantity measurements

Bill of quantities (BOQ)

A document that itemizes measured quantities of material, equipment, and labor

Project charter

Document that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities

Project charter includes

• Project description

• Project purpose or justification

• High-level requirements

• Scope and major deliverables

• Duration

• Summary budget

• Assumptions, constraints, risks, and issues

• Stakeholders

• PM team, responsibility, authority

Project assumption

A factor in planning process that is considered to be true, real, or certain often without any proof or demonstration

Direct & manage project work

The process of leading and performing the work defined in the project management plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the project’s objectives

Manage project knowledge

The process of using existing knowledge and creating new knowledge to achieve the project’s objectives and contribute to organizational learning

Monitor & control project work

The process of tracking, reviewing, and regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan

Perform integrated change control

The process of reviewing all change requests; approving and managing changes to deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents, and the project management plan; and communicating the decisions

Process of performing integrated change control

1. Prevent root cause of changes

2. Identify the change and understand it

3. Evaluate the impact of the change on the other project constraints

4. Create options for change

5. Change is approved or rejected

6. Adjust the project management plan, project documents, and baselines

7. Communicating the change to all stakeholders affected by the change

8. Document change