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I am writing to give the reader new to project management the best possible framework for success, and to prod [...]

What can we learn from the design and build project preeminent from 2500 BC until the modern age? The Giza [...]

21 months from title to the site, 18 months from first sketches,  6 months from first steel to 86th floor [...]

In which timing and progress reporting are key to an unusual success.   My temptation is to start with what, [...]

Up front planning plus a real time “war room” is the key, here   My first job as a college [...]

Conceptual cost estimating is the task of predicting expected cost for a future project when the form of the final [...]

The boss doesn’t want a range.  Doesn’t want to know about risk nor probabilities.  Fair enough, I guess.  But we [...]

‘What’s normal?”  As the design progresses we can get more accurate in our cost and schedule projections.  We’ll get manhours, [...]

The conceptual and control estimates have required assumptions about how the work is going to be executed.  It is time [...]

Excellent contracts are almost always found around excellent projects, some of it likely cause and effect.  But I rarely see [...]

Sometimes, a handshake really is the best contract.  The right owner and the right contractor, each responsible for his/her part [...]

    It’s about getting the right things to the right people at the right time to save money and [...]

On a large projects, how much do you partition the tasks?  Consider learning curves and conceptual integrity before over-partioning.   [...]