Colorado River Return Project

• Year: 2002
• Title: Colordao River Return Project
• Author: Boyle Engineering Corporation
• Description: Colorado River Return Project
• Publications - Doc Type: Other

Project Management Pan
• I Project Management Protocols
Boyle has developed a comprehensive set of project management protocols over many
years of practice. These protocols embody proven principles of large engineering project
management. The fundamental management principle we will implement on the CRRP is
to maintain timely, forthright communications both up and down the project team staff
and, especially with the Technical Committee and the CWCB.
Supervision
To meet the project challenges, the project team will be under the overall direction of
Blaine Dwyer our Project Manager. Our Assistant Project Manager, Tom Roode, will
provide the day -to -day internal management of our technical team. Given the short
duration of the project, bi- weekly reports to the State will summarize each project element
or work activity and transmit work products when appropriate. Activities planned for
accomplishment during the next four week period will also be defined. The percentage of
work completed relative to the planned time schedule will be reported along with
associated budget -cost relationship for project control.
Work Plan
During the development of proposals, contracts, budgets, and schedules, a scope of
service evolves which the parties may understand differently. To avoid misunderstandings,
we will develop a work plan delineating tasks and subtasks by project element and staff
requirements by discipline and classification by project element, definition of the amount
of time required and available for each task, and most importantly a clear definition of all
deliverables. This detailed work plan will be developed cooperatively by our CRRP Project
Manager and the team members.
The work plan will incorporate pertinent data such as personnel hours, budgets, sequential
restraints, schedules, timelines, milestone events, and deliverables, for each project
element. This management tool is monitored and controlled by the use of a computer -
based project management program. Boyle Engineering uses MS Project as our primary
project scheduling tool. This supplies us with a good visual layout of the project schedule
once the design tasks have been identified, and time requirements for each established
and the ability to communicate effectively with the State. The original schedule will be
maintained as the project baseline to identify the critical path work tasks, and the
milestones that are dependent on timely completion of those tasks. Boyle has an
outstanding work -in process system, which will be used to develop the base data input to
MS Project so that personnel charges and direct cost can be monitored and controlled on
a weekly basis.
BoylePlan is used to create the initial project budget, and takes input from the schedule
and the MIS to create the standard S -curve that is used to track the actual to budgeted
relationship for both project time and cost. Boyle now requires that all project S- curves be
updated no less frequently than bi- weekly, and the accounting system provides actual
project costs on a weekly basis. Routine monitoring of the project S -curve will allow our
CRRP Project Manager to observe that the overall project is progressing according to the
schedule. In the event that the data indicate that the project is falling behind schedule or
is exceeding the project budget, the project manager evaluates the causes of the problem,
and develops a plan of action to correct the situation as it occurs.
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