“The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me - away from those who are still undecided.” Casey Stengel
These are difficult days for project managers. Impediments and slowdowns, resistance and friction are put into your daily design and construction activities in forms that we didn't have to think about in the past. Our problems are ongoing and multifaceted, from the limitations of the availability of products and ongoing material and supplier issues, to the continuing difficulties in finding labor (and god forbid depending upon talented reliable individuals) have all changed the way that we need to orient ourselves to our daily activity on and off the project site. When you mix in the fact that we are operating in a moderately strong economy and subcontractors are difficult enough to coordinate in the best of circumstances - only to be completely missing in action in recent times, this only compounds the ongoing problems for the successful and proactive project manager.
Keeping in mind that we are focused here on custom home design build projects, where the design build contractor is coordinating her own schedule, how can we organize our thinking around project management and choreograph our work, to a point where our projects are running smoothly - and we are experiencing a minimum of stress - and so that we can focus more on our creativity - and our personal time with family and friends? I think it boils down to automation of some of the tasks that are repeated, the use of templates for common recurring correspondence, a certain type of careful but simple personal organization and a tight and easily amended calendar of activity . Let's talk a bit about what it takes to plan a successful project before it gets underway…
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