Dr f Dejahang (BSc CEng, BSc (Hons) Construction Mgmt, MSc, EX MCIOB EX........ PhD

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PROJECTPROJECT
MANAGEMENTMANAGEMENT
EFFECTIVENESSEFFECTIVENESS

2. RESEARCH MODEL
(Process model productivity on site)
• Organisational Factors
• Contract management
• Finance
• Etc
PROJECT WORK ENVIRONMENT
Pre-construction
Activities (1)
D1. Client brief
D2. Project objectives
D3. Specification
D4. Design/build-ability
D5. Contractual
arrangement
D6. Planning
D7. Scheduling
D8. Estimating
Site/Project
Manager (2)
Characteristics
D9. Experience/capability
D10. Leadership style
D11. Authority/influence
D12. Goal commitment
D13. Involvement
Labour (6)
Characteristics
D39. Subcontracting
Labour
D40. Direct labour
Management (3)
Factors
D14. Clarity of tasks
D15. Team work
D16. The style of
management
D17. Safety management
Management (4)
System
D18. Planning
D19. Communication
D20. Controlling
D21. Co-ordinating
Resource (5)
Management
D22. Labour selection
D23. Labour control
D24. Material selection
D25. Material handling
D26. Plant
D27. D31. Waste on site
D32. D38. Delay and
Disruption on site
Motivating
Factors (7)
D41-D46
Hygiene
Factors
D47-D55
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Project
Performance
• Time
• Cost
• Quality
• Safety
Job
SatisfactionEffort Rewards
Ability and Skill of worker

4. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS

5. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS

6. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS
PROJECT MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS
 The project management’s effectiveness
is about having the power to produce good
results.
 It is about the management team
effectively fulfilling their responsibilities to
bring the project to a successful
completion.

7. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS
 Management effectiveness is
influenced by several factors such as:
 Education
 Training
 Experience
 Belonging to a relevant professional
body
 They all help project Managers to
develop their knowledge and skill.

8. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS
FACTORS
 the project Manager’s familiarity with their
working environment and team members.
 This determines a project manager’s
approach in dealing with the activities on
site.
 the project manager’s managerial
behaviour is also influenced by company
rules and regulations.

9. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS
 There is a strong positive
relationship and association
between:
 the style of management
 and its effectiveness.
 The most effective managers tend to
be high in both task and employee
orientation.

10. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS
 In other words, a manager that
has an equal interest in both:
1. the technical
2. and human aspects of the project
is an effective project manager.

11. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS
FACTORS
 Experience has shown that if a good
project management team run the site.
 At the same time the design complexity is
relatively constant.
 Design changes are kept to a minimum
 As a result the daily (unit) productivity will
remain constant.

12. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS
 The poor performance and high variability
on site are related to one another.
Poorly performing projects often experience
one or more of factors such as:
 disruption
 site congestion
 sequencing (events following each other in
a successive way)
 lack of availability of material

13. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS
Also,
 Poor site management
 Poor worker’s skills
 Low motivation
 quality of engineering
 work environment

15. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS
The effectiveness of the site manager
depended on several factors, namely:
 personal factors
 manager’s age
 experience
 qualification

16. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS
FACTORS
 style of management
 membership of professional body etc.
job related variables such as:
 salary
 job satisfaction
 job security
all of which may influence the site
manager’s motivation.

17. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS
project variables are defined as:
 building type
 project size and duration
 construction methods and complexity of
the project
organisational variables such as:
 the size of the company
 site engineers’ level of authority

18. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS
Identification of key success factors
 Main factors critical to the success of a
project are:
1. Communication throughout the project
2. Clear objectives and scope
3. Breaking the project into different parts
4. Using the project plan as working
documents

19. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS
Communication throughout the project
 Plays a vital role in influencing those
immediately involved.
 Those across the organization
 It is often neglected
 Understanding benefit and limitation of
each method.

20. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS
 During a change the effect of
communication becomes more apparent.
 These range from insuring when change
starts.
 What are the effect of change on project
life cycle?
 It helps management to eliminate waste.
 Motivate workforce to agree with the
change.

21. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS
 The successful communication needs to
be focused rather than broad-brush.
 Timing is most important
 Good communication can reduce non-
productive effort
 It can help to avoid disruption
 It eliminates mistakes
 It can help to manage uncertainty

22. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS
 It might help to mange uncertainty better
 It may generate new ideas
 It will encourage team work
 It will increase productivity
 It will encourage team work
 It will help to meet KPI’s

23. PROJECT MANAGEMENT-SUCCESS FACTORS
Clear objectives and scope
 Are guiding principles that direct the
efforts of project team
 Without a well-defined scope, the project
objectives may become unclear to
participants and they may start to loss the
site of what they are trying to achieve