Project Management

Elements of the Project Management Process Include:

• Activity and resource planning: define the project’s scope, identify duration and determine available resources
• Control time management: set realistic deadlines and communicate to the teams, maintain a defined schedule
• Contract management: managed request for proposal process, perform contract/ vendor selection, monitor contract status, and sign-off on completion
• Project communication: maintain effective communication and keep the stakeholders up-to-date
• Analyze and manage project risk: identify and evaluate potential risks before project commencement, avoid risks where possible and minimize the impact if unavoidable
• Monitor progress: monitor and analyze both expenditures and team performance, and if necessary take corrective measures
• Manage documentation: ensure fulfillment of all project requirements and record the project history (what was done, who was involved, and what could be improved in the future)
• Maintain budget: control costs by influencing the factors that create the cost variance, manage changes and ensure requested changes are agreed upon
• Dispute resolution: promote successful performance and mitigate risk by communication, coordination, problem prevention and dispute resolution
• Coordinate project activities: identify functional connections that relate to indirect costs and exploit inter-dependencies of activities when scheduling
• Scheduling: control workloads, maximize operational efficiencies, perform resource allocation
• Attend project coordination meetings: attend stakeholder meetings from design, engineering, implementation and completion
• Sign-off on activity completion: verify key project tasks and milestones are successfully completed and document completion status
• Verify contract scopes are satisfied: inspect and audit tasks as completed, compare scope of work and changes to finished product, test and document, gain approval and sign-off from stakeholders
• Project progress reporting: communicate current status, milestone review, progress photos, issues, concerns and resolution plan, budget update and completion tracking progress
• Punch list development: match progress to scope of work, track change requests to completion, inspect environment, audit systems, note any deficiencies and communicate resolution items to stakeholders and vendors
• Change order management: approve concise contract scopes of work prior to engagement; document and submit changes for approval, negotiate options and costs in a timely manner, adjust schedule, resources and communicate changes that affect other workloads