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ager and design team to get to know their client. The astute project manager asks questions, listens to, and observes the client ...

Develop a Project Work Plan The most critical phase of any project is planning the work. The work plan establishes the scope of ...

There are seven key components to a work plan, which the project manager must establish before the team starts substantive work ...

that everyone has the same expectations as the project moves forward. Some clients are unaware of the amount of their time a pro ...

Design projects are a team effort. The best teams function like a well-oiled machine—each part working in the right way and at t ...

is a serious disparity between the number of staff hours required for the tasks, activities, and deliverables for the scope of w ...

pleted. It will take a smaller team a longer period of time than a larger team to produce a large project. Establishing the size ...

ule which shows the five or six major phases of work, or as complex as a schedule which is hundreds of lines long, showing many ...

sonal expenses (DPE)—those costs associated with the employment of people, including benefits such as vacations, holidays, healt ...

The project files should include the marketing materials for the project, the documented project goals, the project scope, the w ...

Good communication is essential to the success of the project. The project manager is typically the primary contact between the ...

can mitigate a lot of anxiety on the part of the client and the design team. This is especially true when questions about work b ...

Transmittals, which should accompany every submission to the client or consultant firm as a record of the submittal. E-mail, wh ...

Budgets for the furniture inventories, audio-visual equipment, security sys- tems, food service equipment, information systems, ...

tion skills. It also takes understanding that it is necessary to modify project management style with every client. The project ...

Controlling the team’s work and leading the team are two very different approaches. Certainly, in order to be successful in this ...

The project manager should always look for ways to accommodate change to the project with the least impact on project budget, sc ...

Design firm support. The design firm must support the project manager in the delivery of projects with staff resources, timely ...

CHAPTER 702  Managing the Internal Design Team ERIC WAGNER Copyright 2002 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click here for te ...

A A project manager in a construction environment must be a good team leader or the project will not succeed. In this demanding ...