As projects have expanded in size and complexity, the need to proceed in a regulated and progressive sequence using a set of project controlled management techniques and disciplines is essential to success. Projects that are not controlled using strong management and leadership quickly degenerate into escalated cost, compounded by delays, poor quality and failed functional and compliance requirements.

The success of any given project will ultimately depend upon:-

• Accurately establishing and maintaining the clients brief in terms of performance, time and cost
• Ensuring roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and understood for each member of the project team
• Each team member having the required chemistry to gel together as one successful team

 

Each project will have a single person to act as liaison with the Client, acting on behalf of the team. Depending on the type of the project, this person may come from any member of the Professional Team but will always be at Partner or Director level. The team then works with the Client and within itself as a partnership of firms with a definition of tasks and responsibilities all directing the many and varied talents towards a common goal.

Working closely with the Spokesman is the senior management of each firm on the team. For each project, each consultant firm works under the leadership of a partner/director and a senior associate of that firm. These people, along with the Spokesman, are responsible for the overall administration and control of the project from it's inception to its completion. Other staff members will change through the life of the job as the work stage progress, but the senior administrative staff must stay with each job to ensure continuity and adherence to the goals of the project.