Managing Multidisciplinary Projects

A Group VI Endeavour

We will cover

Project Management what is it? The role of the Project Manager Multidisciplinary Projects the challenges Solutions Interface Management Difference between Project Management and Interface Management Case Study

Project Management What is it?

Project management is the discipline of organizing and managing resources (e.g. people) in such a way that the project is completed within defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints.

Project management is a set of principles, practices, and techniques applied to lead project teams and control project schedule, cost, and performance risks to result in delighted customers or stakeholders.

What Project Management Isnt

A box ticking exercise About just managing a big plan

Effort = staff * days elapsed. So what? E=MC2 , but the formula does not create nuclear power!)

(remember:

A recipe for 100% success Rigid it evolves and needs to adapt style and method according to the groups you are working with

Multidisciplinary Projects The Challenges

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Multiple organisations Communication and crossing the voids Monitoring and Tracking Managing and driving people Fixed time and cost Funding process restrictive Balancing innovation with delivery Managing expectations

Disciplines in Railway Project

PROJECT: XYZ Metro Rail Corporation SCOPE: Design and construction of ballastless track work and OHE for d km stretch between A and B in XYZ city PARTNERSHIPS: Consortium with MNO company for S&T works

Track Laying Design P&M SCM FA&A Planning and Scheduling OHE S&T

Interface Management

Responsible for coordination and representation of different team members. It ensures the definition and conformity of all the members involved in a process and other systems that interact with that process.

Supervisory Board L&T-Scomi Consortium Client

Project Director Project coordinator L&T Interface manager

Project Director Scomi

Construction manager

Design

FA & A

Planning

P&M

SCM

OHE

P-way

QA/QC

Basic Interface Management System

Functions

Technical Organizational

DMRC: A Case Study

DMRC

DMRC: A Case Study

DMRC

Perfect synergy between various domains

Leader was correctly chosen and sufficiently empowered Clear organisational hierarchy PM should have clear visibility of entire scope of work Clear-cut planning process, to ensure each discipline is clear on scope and timelines

DMRC: A Case Study

IGI Airport- T3

DMRC: A Case Study

IGI Airport- T3

Challenge: The project involved more than 70 organizations from India, London, Dubai, Singapore and Sydney.

Solution

L&T implemented the Aconex online collaboration system to control information and link the project team. Aconex used to manage more than 300,000 documents and one million mail items

Advanced Interface Management

ACONEX Developed by Leigh Jasper and Robert Phillpot Construction Interface Matrix system (CIM) Proposed by Fu-Cih Siao* and Yu-Cheng Lin of Department of Civil Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

Advantages
Rapid implementation and deployment; Instant retrieval of information; and Faster flow of communication.

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