AN INTEGRATED PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

To manage engineering services effectively for a particular project, project managers need to have a comprehensive method for establishing and assessing scope, schedule, and budget. The Engineering Department of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has developed a number of forms, called task cards, that not only help project managers keep track of such information, but also help them communicate it to clients and other project team members. Created in a spreadsheet format, the cards can be created and updated easily as changes occur. Various task cards can be rolled up into a "summary project task card," which defines the deliverables for the overall project, including the associated budgets, schedules, and significant milestones for each of the design and construction stages. Because they contain schedules for the entire project at hand, the summary cards provide a graphic representation of the time frames required to complete each task. The task cards also enable the project manager to develop an overall engineering budget for each project stage. The key advantage of task cards is integration. Every aspect of a project can be identified, measured, tracked, compared, and communicated within a single system. By pulling all of the variables of a project together in a compatible format, project managers can define scope, schedule, and budget more clearly. Sample task cards are included.

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• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Zipf, P J
• Publication Date: 1998-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 38-41
• Serial:
  • Journal of Management in Engineering
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0742-597X
  • Serial URL: http://ascelibrary.org/loi/jmenea

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Budgeting; Construction projects; Design; Engineering; Forms; Integrated systems; Project management; Schedules
• Identifier Terms: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Design; Finance; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00750483
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 15 1998 12:00AM