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The Tradeline BLOG is an online exchange of quick bits of breaking information, intelligent “briefs”, promising technologies, emerging trends, HOT concepts “overheard” at Tradeline conferences, and some rare, practical stats that will help you keep tuned to the capital projects and facility management profession.
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A critical phase of project management.
Project shaping is an ill-defined but critical phase of project management. Little is written about the up-front shaping of large capital projects, yet anyone with large-project experience will say that big projects are made or broken in what does or does...
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Steps to reduce adversarial conflicts.
Mutual incentives, close working relationships, and a shared vision for all project participants is crucial for large capital projects. The goal of a governance system is to establish those three realities. An idea to avoid adversarial arrangements and el...
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Explore the Core-Team project model
Big projects often involve big ego issues which inject complexities that should be planned for. Identify which people and how to manage in light of their involvement. Sometimes internal engineering groups that are locked into business-as-usual project pla...
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A tool for large capital project planning.
Consider the idea of peer review applied to capital project plans. It pulls in extra expertise and builds consensus. Peer review people should meet face-to-face on site.
- From Tradeline's Conference on The Up-Front Planning, Structuring, and Shaping of...
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Necessary Investments for Large Projects
Big projects, because of their public and political visibility, will incur large dollar requirements for surface water management, surrounding natural areas, vegetation buffer zones, paths, trails, landscaping and irrigation. Plan for it.
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A financial strategy for large projects.
If sustainable design is to be part of a large capital project, set up a separate sustainable design funding mechanism, or you're likely to lose those features to the general project funding stream.
- From Tradeline's Conference on The Up-Front Planning...
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Involvement in Decision Making Process is Key
To expedite permitting processes, try to have permit approval people actually take part in decision-making meetings. This applies especially to big, high-profile projects.
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A tool for keeping project objectives clear.
Instead of publishing separate schedules for different project stakeholders, publish one master schedule for everyone. This helps to pull everyone together on the focused objective and team progress.
- From Tradeline's Conference on The Up-Front Plannin...
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