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. [...]