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Reference: Theory and Management of Systems, 2nd Edition
Johnson, Kast, and Rosenweig | Copyright 1963, 1967, McGrow Hill, Inc. | Library of Congress 67-13200

I wish to share with fellow project managers a system that I used successfully since 1968. It helps to define all actions of a project with corresponding action assignments to consultant, contractor, or admin units along with respective performance time and cost estimates. The result are: (1) Management Matrix in Excel, (2) a CPM, (3) a detailed cost estimate, and a database that can progress in detail and programmed to generate progress summary reports for senior management, status reports for section managers, progress reports for system elements, and progress reports for each project team. 

1. The references publication identifies the following type of systems:
1.1 Open: like Airport Terminals that transfer people and goods from the ground transport system to the air transport system.
1.2 Closed: like a building water heating system that circulates water to transfer heat from a furnace to building spaces.
1.3 Complex: like a regional development that combines buildings, circulation, and utility systems.

1. Approach:
2.1 View project as a system and define elements, components and subcomponents. 
2.2 Prepare excel file with columns for numeric system of entries (in text) and Entries for elements components and subcomponents breakdown. Then add columns for each specialty consultant, contractor, and agency units that will receive assignments. 
2.3 Resulting activities for CPM scheduling, etc., are identified by system number and activity column number to be used with time, cost, predecessor, and successor assignment in a CPM program.

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Sarandis Constantzos Aff.M.ASCE
Consultant
Stow MA
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Please inform how to obtain the book referenced, internationally. Thank you.

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Jaime Santamaria-Serrano P.E., F.ASCE
Advisor
Santamaria Urbanismo S.A.S.
Bogota, D.C., Colombia, S. A.
jsanta@...

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Original Message:
Sent: 01-28-2017 13:13
From: Sarandis Constantzos
Subject: Management and Control of Complex Projects

Reference: Theory and Management of Systems, 2nd Edition
Johnson, Kast, and Rosenweig | Copyright 1963, 1967, McGrow Hill, Inc. | Library of Congress 67-13200

I wish to share with fellow project managers a system that I used successfully since 1968. It helps to define all actions of a project with corresponding action assignments to consultant, contractor, or admin units along with respective performance time and cost estimates. The result are: (1) Management Matrix in Excel, (2) a CPM, (3) a detailed cost estimate, and a database that can progress in detail and programmed to generate progress summary reports for senior management, status reports for section managers, progress reports for system elements, and progress reports for each project team. 

1. The references publication identifies the following type of systems:
1.1 Open: like Airport Terminals that transfer people and goods from the ground transport system to the air transport system.
1.2 Closed: like a building water heating system that circulates water to transfer heat from a furnace to building spaces.
1.3 Complex: like a regional development that combines buildings, circulation, and utility systems.

1. Approach:
2.1 View project as a system and define elements, components and subcomponents. 
2.2 Prepare excel file with columns for numeric system of entries (in text) and Entries for elements components and subcomponents breakdown. Then add columns for each specialty consultant, contractor, and agency units that will receive assignments. 
2.3 Resulting activities for CPM scheduling, etc., are identified by system number and activity column number to be used with time, cost, predecessor, and successor assignment in a CPM program.

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Sarandis Constantzos Aff.M.ASCE
Consultant
Stow MA
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Thank you for providing a technology reference book for the successful management of projects.

I have yet to read this text.

Still, I will comment that to work a project that meets the requirements of the client, Project Team/Functions, stakeholders & shareholders, etc.,
such success will be the result of collaboration, communication, and cooperation within and between the players, influences, and the individual and collective
level of trust *  between all.

Such behaviors will not result because of  technology knowledge.

It will result from those continued behaviors in the categories of people, process, and leadership.

Stay  Healthy!
Cheers,
Bill

• Trust = f (I, R, C),

, where I, integrity, R, reliability, and C, levels of competence.

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William M. Hayden Jr., Ph.D., P.E., CMQ/OE, F.ASCE
Buffalo, N.Y.

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot 1819 - 1880
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-31-2017 11:52 AM
From: Jaime Santamaria-Serrano
Subject: Management and Control of Complex Projects

Please inform how to obtain the book referenced, internationally. Thank you.

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Jaime Santamaria-Serrano P.E., F.ASCE
Advisor
Santamaria Urbanismo S.A.S.
Bogota, D.C., Colombia, S. A.
<maskemail>jsanta@...</maskemail>


Original Message:
Sent: 01-28-2017 13:13
From: Sarandis Constantzos
Subject: Management and Control of Complex Projects

Reference: Theory and Management of Systems, 2nd Edition
Johnson, Kast, and Rosenweig | Copyright 1963, 1967, McGrow Hill, Inc. | Library of Congress 67-13200

I wish to share with fellow project managers a system that I used successfully since 1968. It helps to define all actions of a project with corresponding action assignments to consultant, contractor, or admin units along with respective performance time and cost estimates. The result are: (1) Management Matrix in Excel, (2) a CPM, (3) a detailed cost estimate, and a database that can progress in detail and programmed to generate progress summary reports for senior management, status reports for section managers, progress reports for system elements, and progress reports for each project team. 

1. The references publication identifies the following type of systems:
1.1 Open: like Airport Terminals that transfer people and goods from the ground transport system to the air transport system.
1.2 Closed: like a building water heating system that circulates water to transfer heat from a furnace to building spaces.
1.3 Complex: like a regional development that combines buildings, circulation, and utility systems.

1. Approach:
2.1 View project as a system and define elements, components and subcomponents. 
2.2 Prepare excel file with columns for numeric system of entries (in text) and Entries for elements components and subcomponents breakdown. Then add columns for each specialty consultant, contractor, and agency units that will receive assignments. 
2.3 Resulting activities for CPM scheduling, etc., are identified by system number and activity column number to be used with time, cost, predecessor, and successor assignment in a CPM program.

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Sarandis Constantzos Aff.M.ASCE
Consultant
Stow MA
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