A NEW CHALLENGE FOR PROJECT MANAGER: BIM IMPLEMENTATION IN CONSTRUCTION

At this point the scope of the project has been defined in detail and the project team are ready to be appointed. Although a Project Manager can be appointed at any stage of the project, s/he will need to be appointed prior to the establishment of the project team. The Project Manager is responsible for all aspects of project performance including: planning, budget execution, project execution, and close-out Funding.

An old adage-plan the work and work the plan, in essence this is the key to successful project management. Project Managers (PM) must first plan out the project and then monitor and control the execution of the program work. There is a tendency for projects to short change the planning process. This is a common mistake. The time spent properly planning will result in reduced cost and duration, and increased quality over the life of the project. Using tried and true best practices for a PM will provide assurance that the program /project will be beneficial and successful.

Key outputs in this phase are the Projects Requirements definition, the capability and capacity assessment, project delivery strategy and the Project Management plan. The role of the construction/ project manager in this phase is, once project authorized, it is the project manager’s responsibility to implement the project. In terms of the Project Requirements Definition the, the project manager refines and details the project authorization and details what the project is required to accomplish in terms of the products/services the project will deliver and the scope of work that needs to be done. The project manager must provide project team members, corporate sponsors, and other stakeholders with a common understanding of what the project is all about, and is the authoritative reference document that defines the project.

It is the first and the most important aspect of RMP. In this step Project Managers (PM) need to plan the objectives or the context of the whole plan. PM needs to understand what they want to achieve and why, when and how.

PM within organizations is gaining momentum and an indispensable component of the work flow procedure. Improving organization project management can effectively improve an organization use of resources. Nevertheless, if an an organization does not possess a clean target and does not follow project phases no one willing enters into the transformational journey. The issue is the bottom line in PM, whether it is to better the organization financially, ethically, or for standardization of procedures. Constitutions must be cognizant of the elements and competencies required to receive a successful PM outcome. In the closing, business should have an active strategy to revise and adapt to the shifting marketplace.

The job of project manager, as performed by Ron Barnes of CanDo Construction Ltd., is fundamental in making things happen, as he is responsible for winning and completing projects. To do this successfully, he must gather an accurate assessment of the competition through direct contact, past experience, or second-hand reports. He must also organize available material and human resources, and determine the timeframe necessary to complete all processes of a project.

Soft-skills guide us to the path where we want to head toward, and help become a better member of the future business world. The soft-skills learning triangle developed by Dr. Jean Adams illustrates the interactivity among the three factors: the learner, context, and content. Dr. Jean Adams pointed out that the soft-skills cannot only be developed by the “book learning”, but also a real-life experience should come along to actually apply the skills and learn further from it. Thus, seeking for both the theory and the real-life experience is

The intention of paper is to describe a workforce training program with the main goal to prepare students at 2-and 4-year higher education institutions with soft skills needed in the workforce. Soft skills are social qualities, also widely known as people skills, that one possesses (Robles, 2012). The six soft skills that will be incorporated in training will be: professionalism, customer service, communication, teamwork, leadership and work ethic. Teaching soft skills are beneficial to students because it could be the determining factoring of being employed. Inadvertently, the absence of soft skills can sink the career of someone who has technical abilities and expertise but no interpersonal qualities (Klaus, 2010).

Project management provides a strong foundation for developing the attributes needed to pursue high-level leadership roles, analytical positions, and many other areas within the business environment.

Limitations: o Shortage of PMO expert resources; o Staff consisted of: PMO director + 3 contract project managers. Project charter introduced “idea form” = used to prioritize projects. PMO responsibilities: o Establish, publish, and disseminate project practices, standards and tools; o Add Later – Portfolio Management & Archiving of projects for knowledge sharing.

The role of the project management office (PMO) has increased nowadays, as many organizations are implementing it. According to PMI (PMI 2011), organizations with a PMO report more projects coming in on time, on budget and meeting intended goals to those without a PMO.

A large number of skills are identified in this category, and most of these are the soft skills - those closely related to organizing and involving people in the tenant movement. Learning or developing the skills of door-to-door outreach, for example, is only desired by 14% of the tenant leaders, while approximately 36% have this skill or experience. In terms of learning how to develop agendas, even less (11.9%) are interested.

Project Manager is responsible for performance measurement which includes finding variances between planned and actual work, cost and schedule. The project manager assigns the tasks to the team members and they follow the required course of action. The project manager provides the status reports to all the vital stakeholders in order to provide visibility. The Stakeholders review the metrics and variance and initiate necessary steps for the variances determined in order to complete the project within budget and time.

 PM will be a ‘working’ member of the team making significant contributions to the project efforts in addition to the routine management duties (e.g. research, writing, editing and other administrative tasks).

The PM will manage and will be held responsible for all the procuring activities done in this project. In this process we prepare the documents which are needed to support the invitations, forms to be utilized like tender, specifications, acceptance, change orders, amendments etc. We also define that which types of contracts will be used, roles and responsibilities of PM and his team in the procurement process, also identifies the change management process. The PM and his team identifies the items to be acquired.