Project Management
Project Management
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I was involved in a large ~ year long design project and I have over 20 years civil engineering, last 10 PM experience. I was asked to be involved with the project and constantly was kept out of the decision process by the PM. I was not the PM on this job. The PM would have early morning calls with team members and I was cut out of the process. I asked the PM what my role was and I was continually told that I was to keep doing what I was doing, so I tried to help out as I could. The job went 40% over budget which is a huge loss. It was really frustrating!
Another senior team member was thrown off of the project because the was too vocal about the project.
Has anyone else had this experience it was painful to watch the carnage.
Another senior team member was thrown off of the project because the was too vocal about the project.
Has anyone else had this experience it was painful to watch the carnage.





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If I didn't know better I'd think that management was just talking about how you would do something without ever actually doing anything.
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I have also had first hand experiences with budgets getting away from you on large projects. There are many reasons why projects go bad and many ways to fix them. Personally, I think that the best way to prevent budget overruns is to restructure the way that we handle one of the most fundamental aspects of a project - the transfer of work between project managers and staff.
Some of the participants in this forum came up with some pretty good ideas on best practices for transfering work. They are summarized in prior threads
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I presented a paper at the ASCE Texas Section Fall 2010 meeting that describes these best practices and an associated web-based work transfer tool called OREx.
You can get a copy of the paper at:
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I hope that this helps.
Glen R. Andersen, Sc.D., P.E.
Optimum Resource Engineering, Inc.
www.ore-engineering.com