A-B-C of Design Project Management!

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[Keywords - Urban Planning, Architecture, Engineering Design, Infrastructure Planning]

[A] - Aspiration gives the purpose to a project, do not let it diminish over time.

[B] - Budget is the governing factor, do not consider it as limitation; you have to innovate to incorporate many things, still fitting it into budget

[C] - Clients speak volumes, but they can be good listener as well. Clients show flexibility if advised for betterment of project.

[D] - Design is the core success factor. Spend more time to design it right in first go, allocate substantial brainstorming time into workplan of design project.

[E] - Estimation of all kinds helps avoid surprises

[F] - Follow up on crucial matters

[G] - Gather the best team who are animated with same spirit

[H] - Highlight exclusions and dependencies early

[ I ] - Identify project risk and mitigation measures

[J] - Judgement has a key role to play. Analysis gives you insight but tough and final decisions are based on judgement.

[K] - knowledge has no substitute, but no amount of knowledge is enough, every design project is a learning experience

[L] - Leverage organisational experience, possibly your firm was hired for the job due to it's experience only

[M] - Monitoring is essential for project, monitor and record every aspect

[N] - Negotiations are the integral part of process

[O] - Organised effort is required to run a design project with multidisciplinary team, budget and time constraints

[P] - Performance of work and resources must be measured throughout project life cycle

[Q] - Quality is paramount in terms of design, communication and output

[R] - Resources has to be optimised and is often the most crucial, challenging and thrilling part of the project management

[S] - Stakeholder's need to be met and know that there can be more stakeholders than the obvious

[T] - Technology contributes to success; best is class tech, software and tools are empowering

[U] - Uncertainties has to be factored in, know that you can't foresee everything on day one, exceptional circumstances arises and need to be dealt with

[V] - Vision and credo is the guiding force, stick to same

[W] - Work Plan is to be honoured, it's not as easy as it sounds but there are ways to adhere to same like creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), innovation, resourcefulness, project tracking etc.

[X] - X-REF all design work, adopt a system of

cross-referencing, benchmarking and standardization

[Y] - Yearning for excellence is what differentiates you from others

[Z] - Zero Waste Design to be encouraged. It's no more a luxury but necessity in today's world.

Author: Anoop Jha

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