Managing

Processing detailed design for project managers

The detailed design stage involves developing the design to tender and construction across all the design disciplines in response to the approved schematic design report. Paul Sancandi gives a step-by-step guide of what’s involved.

June 20, 2012

Managing

Implementing risk management in your project

Most successful program or project managers are effective because they simultaneously balance the immediate challenges and demands facing them with future needs, opportunities and risk-avoidance. PM Oracles on how you can manage risk and find success through this balance too.

June 14, 2012

The myth of project float

The concept of including ‘float’ in a project is less than 60 years old. The key question is, if schedule float did not exist before 1957, how real is it today? Pat Weaver explains why float is a “useful fiction” for lawyers and planners.

June 13, 2012

Time

Schematic design in the project lifecycle

At the end of the outline design stage, with the owner having formally approved the outline design for the project to proceed to the next stage, the next step is to get the schematic design stage going. Paul Sancandi on developing the design across all the design disciplines.

June 12, 2012

Managing

9 steps to define design requirements on your project

At the end of the business case stage of the design management in the project lifecycle, the owner should be better informed of all important design related issues and possible impacts on the project business case. Paul Sancandi on what happens during the outline design stage.

June 5, 2012

Managing

Keep calm and manage the project

How is a project manager like a storm chaser? Some may say both look for trouble but the answer is closer to how they manage themselves and their team when chaos swirls around them. Here’s some advice from PM Oracles for staying calm in the eye of the storm.

May 30, 2012

Risk

The business case for design management in your project

For infrastructure and building projects, the successful implementation of design management throughout the entire project lifecycle can make a real difference in achieving superior outcomes for the project in terms of timing, cost, quality, and value. Paul Sancandi shows how design management should fit into your project’s business case stage.

May 28, 2012

Risk

Understanding design management for building projects

Design continues to grow in its complexity as a result of the significant increase in the specialist inputs to the design and the need for continual refinement and exchange of project information. Paul Sancandi shows how design management has split from project management and what project managers should expect from the separation.

May 21, 2012

Demystifying project task duration

There is no universal answer to the question of what is the ‘correct’ way to assess project durations, but here Patrick Weaver presents an overview of the multiple factors that should be considered by project managers.

May 16, 2012