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Residential projects: 5 mistakes project managers don’t know they are making

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Many project managers in repetitive residential projects tell us that they have to spend up to 50% of their time each week on planning. Their programme is stuck on MS Project and to update it they have to go through countless WhatsApp notifications, emails, or phone calls. They use the wrong tools.

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FOUR PHASES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

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There are four phases of project management which are required to manage projects efficiently on quality, time and costs. Defining and organizing the project: Defining project is the first step in the project management process. Tweet Loading GET LATEST TOPICS IN YOUR EMAIL- SUBSCRIBE NOW.

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How to connect your project schedules and align better?

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Do you work in projects with a lot of repetition (e.g. Then, you should already know how important it is to keep all your project schedules connected. Many project managers tell us that they have to spend over 6 hours a week creating and maintaining different schedules (e.g.

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Commercial Construction Project Management: Managing What You Don’t Control

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However, from time to time, we have to manage things that are out of our direct control – particularly when a project specifies owner furnished items (OFIs) or an owner vendor. We have had OFIs hold up projects for weeks because they didn’t arrive on schedule.

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3 keys to align your team around project milestones

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In a construction project, the key to your project success is keeping everyone aligned around your project milestones. Make your project plan accessible to everyone in your team. The heartbeat of your project is your schedule. Before, it was taking us 310 days to construct a house.

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WHAT IS PROJECT MANAGEMENT?

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WHAT IS PROJECT MANAGEMENT? Tweet A project is a set of interrelated activities, usually involving a group of people working together toward a common goal or objective over a period of time. Not surprisingly, project management requires strong organizational, budgeting, staffing, controlling, and communication skills.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

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Mandatory early and ongoing collaboration for each project. Integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes and team. The benefits of strategic collaboration vs. traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery are well documented and partially listed below (Chan et al.,