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Assembling a Collaborative Project Team
Leading the Team: An Architect’s Guide to
Design Management
Project management is a subject that has been considered in some depth.
However, there has been limited debate or consideration of the management
techniques that assist the development of a design. Design is an iterative process
and the lead designer has to employ various techniques and tools in order to
manage the development of a design effectively. This publication sets out a
number of practical tools that can be harnessed to achieve this goal.
What should a Project Execution Plan contain?
The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 advocates the preparation of a Project Execution
Plan during Stage 1 as part of the process of assembling a collaborative project
team. The plan could be prepared on a practice or project basis. It may or may
not be contractual. It should be accessible to everyone in the project team and
there is additional value in new team members undergoing an induction process
to ensure that they are aware of the core project procedures.
The purpose of the Plan is simple: to provide information and guidance to the
project team in order to facilitate better communication and more collaborative
processes. If the Project Execution Plan achieves these goals, it will have been
successful. There is no prescriptive list of what a Project Execution Plan should
contain but the following might be considered:
• a description of the project (a summary of the brief)
• a project directory
• a company organisation chart
• the Project Roles Table
• the Contractual Tree
• the Design Responsibility Matrix including Information Exchanges
•the Project Programme (the Design Programme(s) might be included or
referred to)
• the Technology Strategy (what software, and hardware, will be used)
• the Communication Strategy
• a list of the Common Standards to be adopted
• the CAD/BIM manual, and
• Change Control Procedures.
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