Category: Engineering and Construction

As any construction project manager would tell you, following a guideline eases the process of overseeing construction projects. The Construction Project Management Plan [CPMP] is a document that provides detailed mechanisms, tools and the knowledge transfer necessary to deliver complex projects. Construction project plans justify project feasibility and helps you develop schedules and goals accordingly.…

When the word construction comes to mind, we imagine structures effortlessly lifted up by a combination of hard work and experience. As a construction manager, you’d already know there is more to this than what meets the eye. Project success is measured by the project’s ability to stick to the scope and time within the…

Given how important capacity planning for engineering projects is, here’s presenting an article with metrics that will streamline your process, as a step ahead from this article on tips to perfecting it. As teams diversify and projects expectations snowball, the lack of adequate resource capacity planning can easily show up as symptoms that border project…

From having started out with time intensive approaches, Engineering project portfolio management quickly evolved into being both nuanced and agile. To match its velocity and level of innovation, the resource management practices adopted  for such projects have also scaled up. Resource planning for engineering has different milestones that determine its success. In this regard, the…

A construction project without an efficient manager is an anchorless ship. Besides process driven hiccups, construction projects also need to be prepared for external factors like weather constraints, price volatility, temporary contractors, variations in safety compliance – all of which play spoilsport on different levels. Despite such limitations, the onus is on the project manager…

Planning your workforce is critical to extract optimal output. However, seamless planning is marred by the less than ideal situations that larger teams often land themselves in. Having studied those patterns for years, the founding fathers of Resource Management have prescribed the following four as the pillars of successful Resource Management: Absolute visibility of all…

When Tony Loveday, Principal Engineer at RMA Engineering walks in on a Monday morning he is delighted to see his teams efficiently collaborate on various tasks. Today, Tony and the RMA teams have worked their way into a workflow management structure that greatly simplifies resource balancing and improves productivity levels. Considering RMA, a multi-disciplinary engineering…