Improvement and Efforts to Minimize Project Delays

By Johari Sinal Zainal

This book has been segregated into several sections in order to improve the message or information delivery such as:

1) The write up itself with underline words to indicate the important point that needs further attention.

2) Words with bold (except title or beginning of words) to indicate processes or listing that important to be read through.

3) Words with bold and underline (except title or beginning of words) to indicate on any important clause or contract or reference on the subject as discussed.

4) Information in tabulated forms to simplify the information to be highlighted and require further attention.

It is expected that this book will give an ideas and knowledge about project management or project planning and how the delays happen and the consequences of it while providing solutions or alternatives for improvement and innovation efforts to minimize project delays impact to Project Owners.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Sep 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543753998

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ISBN

978-1-5437-5398-1 (sc)

978-1-5437-5399-8 (e)

09/18/2019

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.0     Introduction

2.0     Objective and Purpose

3.0     Scope of Discussion

4.0     Abbreviation

5.0     The Importance of Project Planning

6.0     Delay Management Make a Perfect Project Delivery

7.0     Delay Analysis and The Consequences

7.1     Type of Delays

7.2     Time At Large

7.3     Prolongation and Acceleration Claims

7.4     Constructive Acceleration

8.0     Causes of Delays

9.0     Proactive Steps to Minimize Project Delays

10.0   Improvement and Innovative Proposal to Minimize Project Delays

PREFACE

Nowadays, highly efficient project management becoming an important factor in determining the successful of the projects manage by any organizations. It is necessary for the project team members to have multiple skills and knowledge in managing projects. Without appropriate skills and relevant expertise, a project will have a risk of unexpected delays that will affect the final delivery of the project completion as required by Project Owners.

This book is intended to make us realize that a good project starts up shall have a reasonable, excellent and practical work program whenever initiating any projects and it is such important to be able to identify the positioning and level of criticality of the project activity itself through the critical path. Project team members who possess relevant skills on project management normally will start the project with reasonable and appropriate contingencies allowances, to be carefully considered in the time planning and cost estimate to avoid any possible and unexpected delays.

As a moving forward action, an effort in determining ways of improvement and innovation to minimize the risk of project delays by determining the common cause and type of project delays, the cause and effect of the project delays and its impact to Project Owners with corrective action to minimize it, and if possible, to eliminate those delays. The main objectives are not to introduce more work processes or increase existing work load or to focus on fault finding. The direction is to achieve simplicity, to reduce workloads and gain benefits from the recommendations and actions, to suit various purpose and acceptable by the most parties concern.

In general, project delays are unavoidable but it can be minimized with some adjustment to the work management with planning realignment, to suit with current scenario. It is important to recover the delay the soonest possible, to ensure the project can be delivered as expected. Lesson learnt realization from the past project, initiation of processes improvement with continuous efforts on creativity and innovation, is a good start to improve on the project delays issues with viable recommendations or methods to minimize project delays with several improvement & innovative proposal to be considered by the Project Owners with determination of issues, solution to those highlighted issues, responsibilities, cost impact and risk status of each issues as stated.

This book has been segregated into several sections in order to improve the message or information delivery such as:

1) The write up itself with underline words to indicate the important point that needs further attention.

2) Words with bold (except title or beginning of words) to indicate processes or listing that important to be read through.

3) Words with bold and underline (except title or beginning of words) to indicate on any important clause or contract or reference on the subject as discussed.

4) Information in tabulated forms to simplify the information to be highlighted and require further attention.

It is expected that this book will give an ideas and knowledge about project management or project planning and how