I believe, any successful project management consultant can do that, if he has worked on construction field.

Anyway, there used to be a guy called SENSEI, a successful project management consultant, Where is he now? has he not implemented all the stuff on his projects?

:-)

Hi all

To run a project successfully we have to delegate power to sub ordinates and make them answerable.

Take the organization chat and give each one his responsibility written down.

Pay them well

Organize meetings to discuss issues and make people to commit and review their earlier commitments. Help them accomplish their commitment.

Where inefficiency is tolerated efficiency will not be honoured.

Regards

I do hope he doesn’t or we’ll be here for the next six months and end up wondering what Douglas MacArthur had to do with it.

Once in Dubai I got myself an Audi S6 340bhp (2001)
The car is silver and was a steal @ 34000 AED with 135000 km on the clock full service history, aftermarket 19” alloy wheels and blacked out windows. Looks the nuts.

This project first took off with a find a pay rather then design and build.
First of all though I made sure the homework was done and relevant sources for second hand cars were approved. Making sure my budget of 5k (UK pounds) was not broken; this had to include the purchase of the car and insurance.

After weeks of searching and wanting to take advantage of cheap motoring I finally found a friend who was selling his car. (S6)
Once I owned the car I had many happy weeks driving this beast around town. The car was with insurance right on my 5k budget. I was pleased as punch. Then got told to go onto site.

What I forgot to do was actually look at running costs for the car. Service, maintenance and spare parts.
Working on site I got two punchers (back and front) this mean all round new rubber.
Cost 5000 aed, then as I got fed up with paying so much for running to work in my dream car, I gave the car to the Mrs so she could attend “Morning Tea” with all the other “HENS”(lazy cow). Service for the car then cost another 7500 aed, because she had to have it checked over by Audi (why did I agree to this)
Which in hindsight really blew the budget and major over spend on what was first thought of as a successful project !!!

Moral: Check that all documentation and service reports / running & maintenance cost before entering into any contract. Leave the wife at home when working abroad !!!
I am now driving a Lancer 1.3 auto !!!!

A Ford Fiesta Style 1.25L. 6 months old with 2500 miles on the clock. Very basic, but to be used for commuting to work, plus the odd few trips. Don’t want not nuffing fancy that is likely to go wrong or is a waste of money relative to the benefits (such as electric mirrors, electrochromatic rear-view mirror, SatNav, rain-sensitive wipers, light-sensitive headlights blah, blah, blah.)

The 1.25L is surprisingly quick and, so far, has fulfilled almost every expectation.

Now guys, lets not be too hasty in judging Charlie. In essence, Charlie could have a very good point with regard to meeting "expectation". How often has each of us listened to the adverts and marketing blurb, only to find that the real level of service and product quality is absolutely appalling? Don’t we become really p**sed-off when the company fails to resolve even a minor problem? Sloping shoulders, indifference, incompetence, outright denial etc.etc. This applies to retail shops, banks, solicitors.... all sectors of both industry and commerce.

It must be noted that "success" can really only be defined from a very narrow perspective and set of criteria. It’s a classic case of "one Man’s Meat Is Another Man’s Poison". Does the project fail, just because one criterion is NOT met? Can we possibly meet EVERY project stakeholder’s criteria? What happens if we meet the measurement criteria but DON’T meet the expectation?

"Expectation" is a very powerful and influential element that is not to be ignored.

I had an ideal example just a few weeks ago. I needed to buy another car. A main dealer (a big one) just wouldn’t allow me to buy the car using my credit-card or using cash, despite the fact that he had no problem with establishing my identity and credit-worthiness. I gave him all the details and everything he could possibly have wanted. Now, for f*cks sake, in this day-and-age, why should I have to ponce-about going to get a banker’s draft etc. I have the credit-card just so that I don’t have to f*ck-about with cheques and drafts and taking special trips to the bank....especially with all the modern electronic banking systems.

Ultimately I went to another, perfectly reputable dealer. I saw the car I wanted, and it was mine within the space of 1 hour...fully paid, taxed and insured....yet I’d walked into the dealer with nothing other than my credit card. The upshot was that, with the first dealer, NONE of my expectations were met. With the second dealer, they just managed to meet virtually every one. Was the car-buying project a success or failure?? With the first dealer, it was an abject failure, mainly because the dealer failed to meet my "expectations" with regard to paying for the car and their ability to be flexible. With the second dealer, it was extremely successful, not because I bought a newer car for a lower price, but because I told them that I "expected" to drive-away, that morning. Despite a potential problem with the road-tax and insurance, they had the systems in place to deal with every element of purchasing a car. In short, my "exepctations" had been fulfilled. Moreover, I would still have considered the project a success, even had I been obliged to pay a little more for the same car.
James.

Hi Clive,

I agree with you 100%. As for knowing what motivates people and makes them tick, I’d back your knowledge against that of a self-styled "sensei" or self-congratulatory "Successful Project Management Consultant" any day.

Chris

Charlie

I would like to see you practicing what you preach about unions in a society where unions have some real clout
I dont think you would last 30 seconds
As to being a successful manager that to me requires opatience not alienation
Considering your standpoint I would question whether you would or could be successful
Still what do I know I came into planning via the field and school of hard knocks, what would I know about motivation and what makes people tick.

Dear satish,
with supporting governement any project run as a Good project.

Dear sathis,
I agree with you.
But in the real world we need optimazation some parameteres such as political manner, Governement roles, and etc.

Dear all,
I think how TO RUN SUCCESSFUL PROJECT based on Team and supporting Organization specialily governement.

Once the Indian labors of our subcontractor in our project in UAE went for a strike requesting an increment in their salaries.
They delayed the site for nearly 5 days.

The subcontractor’s management did 2 things:
1- They raised the Indian labors salaries.
2- They added Chinese labors in the site.

But they never terminate all of the site labor, they already sustained the 5 days delay cost.