Project Engineering Manager Responsible For $ 1m Project

17) To best evaluate, from a financial standpoint, an IT investment whose benefits cannot be firmly established in advance, you would use:

There is many jobs and responsibilities in the field “pipelining”. There is a transportation side, that transports the natural resources to and from the refinery or takes equipment and materials to the work site. There are people who work and put in the pipes and maintain them. There is all kinds of jobs that are to be done while harvesting the earth's natural resources and making them into a usable form. This job requires the average employee to work at the bare minimum forty hours a week sometimes even more. The employees are made to work in all the different weather conditions, while even working night shifts. There is no holding off on a project when talking about the pipelining business. If you are a welder on the pipeline you usually work two full weeks on and three weeks off all year around (“Pipeline

As the world is chaotic (Djavanshir and Khorramshahgol, 2006) it is impossible to always predict the future accurately. Teller at al (2012) describes project management as balancing the “iron triangle”, where changes to any one of the planned costs, quality or scope will change the other elements. Risk management allows contingency to be put into project plans, (APM, 2012) minimising negative effects and maximising the benefits of uncertainty.

The business nature of the project—pipelines—affected many of our assumptions and approaches to our calculations for our ultimate decision. The case provided two sets of cost estimates from an outside consultant and from Goodyear after hiring a general contractor. We utilized both sets of costs that directed us to the same decision that Goodyear should not go ahead with the Pipeline Project.

Managing a budget and schedule can be very difficult in everyday life let alone managing a budget and schedule for a multi-million dollar project. Many tools are available to help with project management to aid in managing a project with so many a vast amount of factors involved. In the article, ‘How Gantt Charts Can Help Avoid Disaster’ by Linda Russell, she explained how a Gantt chart may have helped this failed project. To name a few issues, the project didn’t have a dated project plan, the project had not determined the critical path, there was no baseline project plan, and there was a major scope change in the middle of the project. Poor schedule management led the company to penalty charges. And all of this also pointed to poor communication.

There is high rate of increase in the world’s demand for energy to run its various development projects. However, the most popular source of the needed energy is oil and petroleum products. To respond to this dire need for energy, Trans Mountain company

expected future revenues. Our primary goal is to determine if the project is economically viable.

Managing a budget and schedule can be very difficult in everyday life, let alone managing a budget and schedule for a multi-million dollar project. Many tools are available to help with project management to aid in managing a project with a vast amount of factors involved. In the article, ‘How Gantt Charts Can Help Avoid Disaster’ by Linda Russell, she explained how a Gantt chart may have helped this failed project. To name a few issues, the project didn’t have a dated project plan, the project had not determined the critical path, there was no baseline project plan, and there was a major scope change in the middle of the project. Poor scheduling management led the company to penalty charges. And all of this also pointed to poor communication.

After the purchase order has been issued the vendor shall provide electrical drawings and certified dimensional drawings for approval. These drawings are required by project for design purposes.

At the last board meeting we discussed the current 14” pipeline that was scheduled to be tied into was 35 feet down in the property of 1800 Tumin. Originally, the plans showed the pipeline was located at side of the road. The options were to either tie in to the old pipeline as planned by adding approximately 30 feet to make up the difference, which would keep it as a cross country line. The other option was to install a new pipeline in road right-of-way to eliminate the cross country line. It will take approximately 600 feet of pipe added to the contract to install in the road right-of-way. Attached please find the cost for both.

The client-related risk will be mitigated by implementing an effective communication plan with early client engagement and by drafting a contract that delineates the client’s duties beyond payment. The risks of schedule’s delay and over-budget will be mitigated by minimizing changes of scope, planning a realistic schedule, avoiding communication breakdown, tracking resources and deliverables and enforcing and monitoring the quality gates.

An unplanned flow of well fluids into the wellbore can be dangerous as it could cause a blowout which would then cause a fire. In order to prevent this, driller’s pump a drilling mud into the well, creating a barrier between the undersea oil and gas and the rig. The safety of the drilling crew relies on a piece of equipment placed on the top of the sea floor called the blowout preventer. This is essential for controlling the well and in an emergency situation preventing a disaster on the platform high above on the sea surface. The blowout preventer is connected to the rig by a large diameter pipe called a riser. If a blowout occurs the blowout preventer is designed to prevent flammable oil and gas travelling up the drilling rig.

The aim of the report is the write about the project manager. Discussion and analyzing the quality and skills that a project manager have will be on the report. There will also be the case study and analyzing if the project manager in the case study is a good or bad manager. In the first part of the main body, the report will discuss about the quality of the project manager from communication skills, enthusiasm and empathy. The competencies and managerial effectiveness will come after that. In this part we will see from the aspect of goal setting, human resource management, and delegating task, time planning and budgeting. After that, it will be the case study discussion on Lena showing that she has the good competencies

Executive Summary: Scientific Engineering Corporation (SEC) had decided to compete for Phase I of the Orion Shield Project. Henry Larsen, the Director of Engineering insisted on having an engineer as the Program Manager. This led to Gary Allison taking the role of Project Manager without any prior experience. Gary had previously earned the reputation of a respected and talented employee with over 14 years of experience as Project Engineer. Henry Larson wanted an inexperienced Project Manager who could be easily manipulated and who would accept his unethical management standards. This paper explores the technical, ethical, legal, contractual and other project management issues faced by Program Manager Gary Allison in the execution of Orion

Scenario D was a challenging assignment to complete within the project objective goals set by the executives. Even though I was able to complete the project on time, I was unable to keep my budget on track and keep the morale of my team between eighty-five through ninety-five percent. This week’s lesson has taught me how valuable a project manager is to the success of the organization’s project. Not only it is our responsibility to be a problem solver, it is the project manager’s job to be the collective voice of the stakeholders to outline the practicality of the project demands. This week’s readings helped me gain insight of what a project manager needs to do and bring to the table when a project’s demands will overall jeopardize the success of the project. The overall theme of this paper outlines how important it is to have transparent top-down and bottom-up communication. I also will express how vital it is to create strategic alignment throughout the lifecycle of the project.