Contacts Organiser (database)
Make sure your company has a good system to record contacts information. This should include: Clients Suppliers Contractors Industry contacts. Everything known about the contact should be able to be …
Year: 2009
Early Change is Best
Change is easier and cheaper to make at the start of a project than later on. The later a change is made on a project, the more expensive it becomes. …
Make a Projects List
Selling and marketing your company’s projects is important. It builds future business, confidence in your company’s abilities, and pride within the company. So make sure your company has a projects …
Tight Schedules
Bid teams / tender teams often bid for projects that the company can’t do. They will make a schedule that is too tight, or have milestones that are impossible to …
Risk Activities
Put risk activities in your schedule (plan). Your client is more likely to accept allowances for risk if you can show how it is worked out, how long it is …
Where Are Those Documents?
Make sure every document you create has the file path and file name in the header or footer. This will mean that all printouts will show where the file was …
Is It Contaminated?
Check if “unsuitable” soil/fill is really contaminated. It might me that it was just wet or not compact-able. It may not be contaminated. Avoid paying for removal of “contaminated” material …
Too good is not good
If everything on a project is going well, take the time to look for things that have been overlooked. Going too well may mean something is wrong.
Good Document System
If you have control of the system at the start of a project, make sure the project (or even at the program level, project office level, or company level) uses …
Keep up with your contacts.
Keep track of and in contact with colleagues, former colleagues, industry contacts, old friends in similar or related industries, clients, former clients, uni friends, etc. This can help getting introductions, …