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Project control - one person only

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Tue, 2009-06-16 05:16
Carmen Arape
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Hi Planners,

I was wondering when a project might be done with one project control staff executing all functions: schedule develop and update, progress measurement and cost control.

Based on project size (man-hours or cost), or duration or complexity I can take the decision whether I need ONLY one person for all.

I am thinking in FEED or EPC Home office projects.

Thanks & regards,


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Wed, 2009-06-17 01:52
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Carmen Arape
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Hi Mike,

FEED = Front end engineering design

OR Basic Engineering.

It is not exactly the same in terms of the deliverables to be issued as part of the FEED or basic engineering.

regards,
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Tue, 2009-06-16 12:18
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Mike Testro
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Hi Gary Hi Carmen

What is a FEED project?

Best regards

Mike Testro
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Tue, 2009-06-16 05:50
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Carmen Arape
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Gary ,

Fully agree with you regarding the link to how good the systems in house are for timesheet, financial and archiving.

You have added the function of Doc. Controller which I would replace with change management.
The new systems for document control become so sophisticated and time consuming.

I would say: for a FEED with man-hours less the 100 K, one person is enough to manage the following: schedule, progress measure, cost control and change management.

regards,
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Tue, 2009-06-16 05:30
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Gary Whitehead
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Hi Carmen,

When I’ve worked on FEED or other home-office projects, the PC team tends to be 1 scheduler / progress measurer (me), 1 cost control/accountant and 1 Doc controller.

This team then runs all PC for all projects in the office.

I’d estimate total of, say, 100,000 man-hours of projects could be handled in this way. So maybe 1/3 of that for a single person to handle all 3 roles.

Obviously it very much depends on how good/automated your systems are for timesheets, financial reporting, archiving, etc
Regards,

Gary
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