Papers
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During a typical 5-year rail project lifecycle, systems contractors and their sub-contractors spend thousands of hours managing project requirements. Despite this effort and although the fundamental principles are described in EN standards, tangible benefits/value for the contractor and their sub-contractors are not realized. This paper addresses the common problems with requirements management activities from inception, implementation and closeout, as seen from a systems engineering, requirements reviewer and assessors point of view. This paper discusses commencement of the Requirements Management process early in the project lifecycle, identifying the purpose, extent and required outputs and critically, the importance of starting out in the right direction because early errors are difficult and costly to recover later in the project lifecycle. Using examples of common errors, this paper suggests ways to obtain better value for money for the Requirements Management effort.
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Based on experience from several large-scale Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) projects in Asia, the author has found that most design organizations, whether they operate under an Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC), Turnkey or Project Management/Project Delivery contracting role, do not effectively manage the design document review process and the comments that this process generates. This element of design management is often poorly managed, yet the impacts of poor design comment management can be significant. Poorly managed design comment management can negatively affect a project in several ways - ranging from delay to design approval that, in turn, may impact the project design schedule and can effect the project financial performance when payment is linked to approvals. This paper describes methods that can be used to improve the management of design review comments.
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Based on extensive personal experience the authors have found that most medium and large scale infrastructure projects fail to take advantage of the efficiencies available from modern data management technology. We describe here an approach that has proven highly successful at bringing together people, data and business rules in a common information environment in the chaotic, fast-paced world of railway infrastructure projects. We believe it is extendable to many other project applications.
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