Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and Records
It is important to keep a good record of the things you do to meet your stated goals. E.g. Goal to improve safety – keep a record of all the …
Make Project Policies, Procedures, and Forms Easy to Find
For projects to run efficiently the team members need to be able to find and use policies, procedures and particularly forms easily and without having to spend time looking for …
Start Meetings On time
Starting meetings on time and finishing on time creates in the team a sense of organisation and planning. If meetings constantly start late, people will turn up later and later. …
Control of Documents
Keep good control of formal documents. When writing a set of documents, plans, etc, make sure that final production is coordinated by one person, or that the file storage is …
Get IT Systems Right When Out of the Office
It is important to get the setup of all the IT systems correct early in a project. For example. If you have a team placed in a client office to …
Clarify Client Expectations
Clarify the expectations of your client. If you don’t you may find that they expect the project outcome to be a lot different than it really is. There is no …
Monitor Project Performance
Regularly monitor the performance of your project against the baseline. Measure performance of cost against time, but also on completion of milestones and deliverables. Make sure you develop actions to …
Building Approvals
Make sure you specify in contracts and specifications that contractors are responsible for obtaining all relevant building and plumbing approvals for their work. Put that in writing but also verbally …
Datum Differences
Be aware of datum differences when doing coastal projects. Coastal/ocean datums are different to land datums and if not specified correctly could cause problems on a project. You don’t want …
Payment Stages
Always specify payment stages in contracts with a client, contractor or consultant, etc. It should state at what stage payments can be claimed or paid, such as monthly for incurred …