Meeting Project Budgets 4

[aepaul]

Perhaps this is a bit of a novice question, but I imagine there are probably a few good methods that I haven't run across yet. Which tips, procedures, and methods have you found for managing project budgets and making sure that the project comes in as projected.

 

[cry22]

There are few things that will always get you within budget.

1, Proper staffing - At Kick-off, you should have REAL SENIOR Staff assigned to the project, A True senior guy should be able to outline the applicable systems choices in a heart beat, he will pick the best system with a complete work plan on how to execute, how to produce, etc.. Junior folks - they should just listen in a tight budget project (this is no time to teach)

2. You should teach your people how to use a database, how to reproduce and edit previous "Generic projects" to suit the new application.

3. Teach your folks what IS Relevant and what IS NOT Relevant on contract documents, and stick to the relevant part.

4. When push come to shove, you can write your specs with some parts as "delegated design", and only review and approve during shop drawing phase (sometimes it works so well, you could get away with murder).

 

[debodine]

SNORGY - My mom was from east Tennessee so "everone" sounds about right to me. :O)

 

[Bobber1]

When I was a project manager, my problem was a huge department of engineers "wasting" budget on my project. I had a very large engineering aid working for me. I would send him around to "interview" the engineers when they charged to my job. It was just enough of an intimidation that people no longer camped on my job number.