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- Delegation Limits: Understanding Your Clients Approval Delegation Process (Approval Limit)
- Why You Need a Single Decision Maker in Client Communication
- Why Project Contacts are Important for your Business
- How Long Should you Set Project Proposal, Tender or Quote Response Times?
- How to Ensure Your Client Gets the Project Status Reports They Want
- The Importance of Good Communication
- Approval Time Limit
- Get IT Systems Right When Out of the Office
- Clarify Client Expectations
- Document Changes to the Scope Brief
- Project Failure
- Manage Client Expectations
- Get To Know Your Clients
- Clients Funding
- Check Geotechnical Reports
- Eliminate Unnecessary Features
- Learn to Say No
- Using the Word “Float”
- Outdated Specifications
- Keep the Client Up to Date
- What Does the Client Really Want
- Agree on Deliverables
- Submit Deliverables Before Invoicing
- Treat Restarted Projects as New Projects
- Directing Consultants
- Document Reliance on Information
- Document Design Changes and Delays
- Unreasonable Project And Construction Schedules
- Design Discrepancies
- Check References
- Document Changes in Scope
- Confirmation of Transmittals
- Copy Minutes of Meetings to Attendees
- Don’t Do Blanket Approvals
- Always Act Professionally
- Get Instructions in Writing
- Agree With the Contract Before Signing It
- Communication
- Record Your Achievements
- Go to Meetings Prepared
- Make Clear Definitions
- Provide Advance Notice for Meetings
- Clarify Time Based Language
- Why Your Email Subject Line Matters
- Should You Delete Most of Long Email Chains?
- Notify Your Client of Project Delays
- Document all Changes, Variations, and Agreements
- Why You Need a Single Decision Maker in Client Communication
- My Favourite Way to Reduce the Cost of Project Meetings
- Don’t Do Every Project
- Why Project Contacts are Important for your Business
- Is Urgent Really Urgent? Is it Really an Urgent Request?
- Why favouritism is bad for your project
- Be Visible – Use Project Status Reports to Increase Your Job Security and Promotion Prospects
- 5 Reasons Why Clear Project Roles and Responsibilities are Important
- Why you Should Have a Single Contact Person in Tender Requests and Offers
- How to Ensure Your Client Gets the Project Status Reports They Want
- Manage with Contracts for Project Success
- Regular Projects Review Meetings
- The Importance of Good Communication
- Approval Time Limit
- Reliability Builds Trust
- Check Your Authority
- Confirm Details of Verbal Conversations
- Specify the Due Date
- Clarify Client Expectations
- Building Approvals
- Evaluation of Tenders
- Document Changes to the Scope Brief
- Time Charge Codes
- Get To Know Your Clients
- Learn to do presentations Effectively
- Alliance Communications Efficiency
- Prepare for Workshops and Presentations
- Neat Writing
- Make Good Use of Calendar Time Scheduling
- Don’t Email Messages to All
- Confirm Meetings
- Estimating Design Time
- Using the Word “Float”
- Keep the Client Up to Date
- What Does the Client Really Want
- Know the Functional Managers
- Project Summary Page
- Clear Roles and Responsibilities.
- Produce Performance Measurements
- Who is Responsible
- Filter Emails
- Clarify Terminology
- Good Change Management System
- Know Team Member’s Names
- Wiki Software
- Clarify Who Uses Documents and Why
- Agree on Deliverables
- Authorization System
- Up to Date Contact List
- Contacts Organiser (database)
- Make a Projects List
- Keep up with your contacts.
- Know Roles and Job Descriptions
- Know The Acronyms
- Turn Potential Enemies into Allies
- Map Soil Testing
- Confirmation of Transmittals
- Copy Minutes of Meetings to Attendees
- Formal Handover Meeting
- Always Act Professionally
- Get Instructions in Writing
- Clarify Terms and Conditions
- Construction
- Wet Weather Delays
- Hold Points
- Inspection and Verification of Construction Works
- Fences Required Around All Construction Work
- Construction Stage Services Costs
- Prepare Properly for Transport of Painted Work
- Seasonal Influences
- Order More than Required
- Check for influences on your project.
- Lay Down Area
- Cap the Stakes
- Make Contractor Responsible for Site Safety
- Map Soil Testing
- Contract
- Delegation Limits: Understanding Your Clients Approval Delegation Process (Approval Limit)
- Wet Weather Delays
- Notify Your Client of Project Delays
- Document all Changes, Variations, and Agreements
- How Long Should you Set Project Proposal, Tender or Quote Response Times?
- 5 Reasons Why Clear Project Roles and Responsibilities are Important
- Manage with Contracts for Project Success
- Check Geotechnical Information
- Approval Time Limit
- Evidence for Late Completion
- Specify the Due Date
- Building Approvals
- Payment Stages
- Evaluation of Tenders
- Limit Your Liability
- Manage Client Expectations
- Check Geotechnical Reports
- Learn to Say No
- Watch External Dependencies
- Scan Large Specifications
- Addition Clause in Contract
- Importance of the Contract
- Agree on Deliverables
- Submit Deliverables Before Invoicing
- Treat Restarted Projects as New Projects
- Make Contractor Responsible for Site Safety
- Directing Consultants
- Document Reliance on Information
- Design Discrepancies
- Legal Review Of Contracts
- Sub Consultant Agreement with Tender
- Agree With the Contract Before Signing It
- Precedence Clause in Specifications
- Liquidated Damages Helps You Get Resources
- Avoid Superlatives In Contracts
- Allow For Inflation
- Clarify Terms and Conditions
- Clarify Ownership Of Drawings
- Get a Signed Contract Before Starting Work
- Know the Scope of Your Project
- Clear Duties in Contract
- Errors and Omissions
- Client or Contractor Track Record
- Contractors
- Why Project Contacts are Important for your Business
- Hold Points
- Manage with Contracts for Project Success
- You Need a Good Suppliers List
- Building Approvals
- Watch External Dependencies
- Check the Status of the Supplier
- Outsourcing
- Cap the Stakes
- Importance of Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Make Contractor Responsible for Site Safety
- Directing Consultants
- Unreasonable Project And Construction Schedules
- Design Discrepancies
- Sub Consultant Agreement with Tender
- Awareness of Details of Designs
- Get Subcontractor Buy In
- Low Bids by Contractors
- Cost
- Delegation Limits: Understanding Your Clients Approval Delegation Process (Approval Limit)
- Make Project Budgets Easy to Release
- Document all Changes, Variations, and Agreements
- My Favourite Way to Reduce the Cost of Project Meetings
- How to Improve the Collection of Project Expense Receipts
- How Good Project Controls Can Improve Your Project Success
- Why Restricted Access to Project Information Slows Your Project
- Check Geotechnical Information
- Fences Required Around All Construction Work
- Allow Costs for Safety in Design (SID) Compliance
- Time Forecasting System
- Meeting Your Forecast Budget Spend Rate
- Automate Project Management Where Possible
- Increase Efficiency In the Office
- Payment Stages
- Document Changes to the Scope Brief
- Project Failure
- Construction Stage Services Costs
- Processing Purchase Orders Efficiently
- Time Charge Codes
- Consider Overall Costs
- Don’t Email Messages to All
- Eliminate Unnecessary Features
- Learn to Say No
- Reward System for Ideas
- Check the Status of the Supplier
- Know Why the Project Was Initiated
- What is Most Critical
- Look at the Big Picture
- Organise Priorities
- Order More than Required
- Graffiti Problems
- Cover your project risks
- Allow for Rework and Failure
- Timesheet Cost Codes
- Reliable Network
- Authorization System
- Early Change is Best
- Is It Contaminated?
- Good Document System
- Treat Restarted Projects as New Projects
- Directing Consultants
- Document Reliance on Information
- Buy Complete Systems for Specialty Equipment
- Allow For Inflation
- Design
- Check Standards for Pipes
- Avoid Bias
- How to Make Design Management More Efficient
- Do Safety in Design Properly
- Allow Costs for Safety in Design (SID) Compliance
- Organise Design Carefully
- Datum Differences
- Construction Stage Services Costs
- Processing Purchase Orders Efficiently
- Allow Enough Time for Design and Drawing Approvals
- Estimating Design Time
- Eliminate Unnecessary Features
- Learn to Say No
- Graffiti Problems
- Clarify Terminology
- Good Change Management System
- Pipe Sizes
- Document Design Changes and Delays
- Design Discrepancies
- Do Regular Design Reviews
- Don’t Do Blanket Approvals
- Awareness of Details of Designs
- Cautionary Notes On Drawings
- Get Subcontractor Buy In
- Clarify Ownership Of Drawings
- List Assumptions in the Project Work Plan
- Extra Budget for Complicated Design
- Documentation
- Record Your Achievements
- Easy to Find Forms and Templates
- Make Clear Definitions
- Notify Your Client of Project Delays
- Document all Changes, Variations, and Agreements
- Why Your Project Needs a Project Management Plan
- How to Improve the Collection of Project Expense Receipts
- 5 Reasons Why Clear Project Roles and Responsibilities are Important
- Save Project Time – Use Full Names on Project Records
- How to Ensure Your Client Gets the Project Status Reports They Want
- Why Restricted Access to Project Information Slows Your Project
- Why You Should Put Proper Project Procedures in Place, and Make Them Easy to Find
- Clear Specifications
- Document All Client Communication
- How to Make Design Management More Efficient
- Why You Need a Past Projects Register
- Do Safety in Design Properly
- Allow Costs for Safety in Design (SID) Compliance
- Single Source of Data
- Verification Systems (Quality Assurance)
- You Need a Good Suppliers List
- Check Your Authority
- Meeting Your Forecast Budget Spend Rate
- Evidence for Late Completion
- Confirm Details of Verbal Conversations
- Specify the Due Date
- Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and Records
- Make Project Policies, Procedures, and Forms Easy to Find
- Control of Documents
- Datum Differences
- Evaluation of Tenders
- Document Changes to the Scope Brief
- Limit Your Liability
- Processing Purchase Orders Efficiently
- Alliance Communications Efficiency
- Allow Enough Time for Design and Drawing Approvals
- Document Folders
- Using the Word “Float”
- Outdated Specifications
- Scan Large Specifications
- Lessons Learned
- Common Responsibilities Template
- Produce Performance Measurements
- Templates for your WBS
- Submit claims as soon as possible
- Clarify Terminology
- Good Change Management System
- Keep Tidy Desks
- Wiki Software
- Clarify Who Uses Documents and Why
- Authorization System
- Simple Document System
- Contacts Organiser (database)
- Make a Projects List
- Where Are Those Documents?
- Good Document System
- Know The Acronyms
- PMI Compendium of Project Management Practices
- Importance of Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Do Any Training Offered
- Make Contractor Responsible for Site Safety
- Document Reliance on Information
- Document Design Changes and Delays
- Document Changes in Scope
- Review Before Sending
- Keep Documentation Professional
- Confirmation of Transmittals
- Copy Minutes of Meetings to Attendees
- Don’t Do Blanket Approvals
- Formal Handover Meeting
- Get Instructions in Writing
- Awareness of Details of Designs
- Precedence Clause in Specifications
- Avoid Superlatives In Contracts
- Clarify Terms and Conditions
- Keep impeccable documentation
- Human Resources
- Record Your Achievements
- Why favouritism is bad for your project
- Be Visible – Use Project Status Reports to Increase Your Job Security and Promotion Prospects
- 5 Reasons Why Clear Project Roles and Responsibilities are Important
- Why You Should Get Rid of Multiple Timesheets
- Only Have One Project Manager
- Time Forecasting System
- Get IT Systems Right When Out of the Office
- Get Clear Directions on Organizational Priorities
- Specialist Expertise
- Make Good Use of Calendar Time Scheduling
- Reward System for Ideas
- Don’t Micromanage
- Don’t Let Your Team Members Get Bored
- Know the Functional Managers
- Outsourcing
- Resource Schedule
- Project Summary Page
- Project Organisation Chart
- Common Responsibilities Template
- Clear Roles and Responsibilities.
- Hold Project Manager Accountable
- Overtime
- Who is Responsible
- Plan the use of your Resources Properly
- More Responsibility means More Money
- Submit claims as soon as possible
- Keep Tidy Desks
- Speed Up Induction and Issuing of Access Cards
- Timesheet Cost Codes
- Up to Date Contact List
- Contacts Organiser (database)
- Tight Schedules
- Know Roles and Job Descriptions
- Do Any Training Offered
- Formal Handover Meeting
- Marketing
- Planning
- Wet Weather Delays
- Go to Meetings Prepared
- Provide Advance Notice for Meetings
- Clarify Time Based Language
- Notify Your Client of Project Delays
- Why Your Project Needs a Project Management Plan
- Regular Projects Review Meetings
- Approval Time Limit
- Fences Required Around All Construction Work
- Time Forecasting System
- Check Your Authority
- Organise Design Carefully
- Start Meetings On time
- Monitor Project Performance
- Building Approvals
- Datum Differences
- Payment Stages
- Project Failure
- Construction Stage Services Costs
- Get Clear Directions on Organizational Priorities
- Consider Overall Costs
- Prepare for Workshops and Presentations
- Specialist Expertise
- Prioritise Tasks That Others Depend On
- Seasonal Influences
- Estimating Design Time
- Using the Word “Float”
- Schedule a Project Logically
- Give Ownership to Stakeholders
- Don’t Micromanage
- Look at the Big Picture
- Don’t Let Your Team Members Get Bored
- Manage Risks
- Resource Schedule
- Project Organisation Chart
- Organise Priorities
- Hold Project Manager Accountable
- Aim to Be Proactive
- Cover your project risks
- Overtime
- Who is Responsible
- Allow for Rework and Failure
- Check for influences on your project.
- Lay Down Area
- Closedowns over large holidays
- Templates for your WBS
- Plan the use of your Resources Properly
- Be Very Reliable
- Submit claims as soon as possible
- Good Change Management System
- Task List
- Focus on Important Tasks
- Keep Tidy Desks
- Simple Document System
- Early Change is Best
- Tight Schedules
- Risk Activities
- Too good is not good
- Good Document System
- PMI Compendium of Project Management Practices
- Importance of Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Paperwork in Big Companies
- Treat Restarted Projects as New Projects
- Unreasonable Project And Construction Schedules
- List Assumptions in the Project Work Plan
- Extra Budget for Complicated Design
- Risk Analysis
- Principal Posts
- Procurement
- Delegation Limits: Understanding Your Clients Approval Delegation Process (Approval Limit)
- How Long Should you Set Project Proposal, Tender or Quote Response Times?
- Why you Should Have a Single Contact Person in Tender Requests and Offers
- You Need a Good Suppliers List
- Evaluation of Tenders
- Processing Purchase Orders Efficiently
- Watch External Dependencies
- Check the Status of the Supplier
- Order More than Required
- Pipe Sizes
- Get Help When You Don’t Have the Expertise
- Buy Complete Systems for Specialty Equipment
- Low Bids by Contractors
- Quality
- Hold Points
- How to Make Design Management More Efficient
- Inspection and Verification of Construction Works
- Verification Systems (Quality Assurance)
- Control of Documents
- Prepare Properly for Transport of Painted Work
- What Does Quality Mean?
- Know Why the Project Was Initiated
- What is Most Critical
- Organise Priorities
- Importance of Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Do Regular Design Reviews
- Take Lots of Photos
- Risk
- Wet Weather Delays
- Don’t Do Every Project
- Check Geotechnical Information
- Do Safety in Design Properly
- Allow Costs for Safety in Design (SID) Compliance
- Limit Your Liability
- Seasonal Influences
- Learn to Say No
- Importance of the Contract
- Manage Risks
- Cover your project risks
- Understand technical risks
- Risk Activities
- Make Contractor Responsible for Site Safety
- Unreasonable Project And Construction Schedules
- Isolation and Lockout Procedures
- Liquidated Damages Helps You Get Resources
- Avoid Superlatives In Contracts
- Low Bids by Contractors
- Risk Analysis
- Safety
- Schedule
- Scope
- Document all Changes, Variations, and Agreements
- 5 Reasons Why Clear Project Roles and Responsibilities are Important
- Hold Points
- Manage with Contracts for Project Success
- Scope Creep
- Monitor Project Performance
- Evaluation of Tenders
- Document Changes to the Scope Brief
- Manage Client Expectations
- Manage the Priorities
- Eliminate Unnecessary Features
- Learn to Say No
- What Does Quality Mean?
- Know Why the Project Was Initiated
- Addition Clause in Contract
- What Does the Client Really Want
- Organise Priorities
- Hold Project Manager Accountable
- Templates for your WBS
- Agree on Deliverables
- Treat Restarted Projects as New Projects
- Make Contractor Responsible for Site Safety
- Document Reliance on Information
- Document Changes in Scope
- Get Instructions in Writing
- Know the Scope of Your Project
- Clear Duties in Contract
- Software
- Systems
- Be Visible – Use Project Status Reports to Increase Your Job Security and Promotion Prospects
- How Good Project Controls Can Improve Your Project Success
- How to Get Your Team to Use Project Systems Properly
- Why Good Project Management Software is a Better Project Forecasting Tool than a Spreadsheet
- How to Ensure Your Client Gets the Project Status Reports They Want
- Why Restricted Access to Project Information Slows Your Project
- Why You Should Get Rid of Multiple Timesheets
- How to Make Design Management More Efficient
- Why You Need a Past Projects Register
- Time Forecasting System
- Single Source of Data
- Verification Systems (Quality Assurance)
- Automate Project Management Where Possible
- Tender
- Delegation Limits: Understanding Your Clients Approval Delegation Process (Approval Limit)
- How Long Should you Set Project Proposal, Tender or Quote Response Times?
- Why you Should Have a Single Contact Person in Tender Requests and Offers
- Check Geotechnical Information
- Fences Required Around All Construction Work
- Evaluation of Tenders
- Tight Schedules
- Treat Restarted Projects as New Projects
- Visit the Intended Site
- Check References
- Sub Consultant Agreement with Tender
- Allow For Inflation
- Testing
- Time
- How to Choose a Company to Work For
- Wet Weather Delays
- Provide Advance Notice for Meetings
- Clarify Time Based Language
- Notify Your Client of Project Delays
- Focus Time – the Way to Get Things Done on Your Projects
- My Favourite Way to Reduce the Cost of Project Meetings
- How Long Should you Set Project Proposal, Tender or Quote Response Times?
- How Good Project Controls Can Improve Your Project Success
- Save Project Time – Use Full Names on Project Records
- Why Restricted Access to Project Information Slows Your Project
- Why You Should Get Rid of Multiple Timesheets
- Approval Time Limit
- Time Forecasting System
- Automate Project Management Where Possible
- Evidence for Late Completion
- Specify the Due Date
- Organise Design Carefully
- Increase Efficiency In the Office
- Start Meetings On time
- Time Charge Codes
- Alliance Communications Efficiency
- Effective Computer Use
- Neat Writing
- Make Good Use of Calendar Time Scheduling
- Prioritise Tasks That Others Depend On
- Don’t Email Messages to All
- Confirm Meetings
- Schedule a Project Logically
- Watch External Dependencies
- Know Why the Project Was Initiated
- What is Most Critical
- Look at the Big Picture
- Outsourcing
- Organise Priorities
- Overtime
- Check for influences on your project.
- Closedowns over large holidays
- Filter Emails
- Be Very Reliable
- Good Change Management System
- Task List
- Keep Tidy Desks
- Speed Up Induction and Issuing of Access Cards
- Timesheet Cost Codes
- Reliable Network
- Authorization System
- Simple Document System
- Tight Schedules
- Good Document System
- Paperwork in Big Companies
- Treat Restarted Projects as New Projects
- Training
- Record Your Achievements
- Make Clear Definitions
- How to Get Your Team to Use Project Systems Properly
- Why You Should Put Proper Project Procedures in Place, and Make Them Easy to Find
- Getting Ideas from Team Members
- Effective Computer Use
- Make Good Use of Calendar Time Scheduling
- Don’t Email Messages to All
- Don’t Let Your Team Members Get Bored
- Lessons Learned
- Training and Self Improvement Library
- Outsourcing
- Project Summary Page
- Clear Roles and Responsibilities.
- Hold Project Manager Accountable
- Who is Responsible
- Submit claims as soon as possible
- Learn the Tools
- Timesheet Cost Codes
- Clarify Who Uses Documents and Why
- Know Roles and Job Descriptions
- Training Certificates
- Do Any Training Offered