Civil and Environmental Engineering 3348A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gantt Chart, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Project Management Institute

• School: Western University
• Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Course: Civil and Environmental Engineering 3348A/B
• Professor: Ken McGuire

Document Summary

We went through a bit of "you"re engineers lol" We went through a bit of "site superintendents are go-get"em kinda people" We went through a bit of "how we need to think on a team" The convoy concept: we are only as fast as our slowest link. We need to find out why the slowest is the slowest, and fix that. "slow down to bring and keep everyone up to speed" A project is a collection of tasks organized to have defined start and finish with the purpose of creating a product or service. It is an undertaking that is unique, temporary, and which will be progressively elaborated as it proceeds but which has a pre-defined set of objectives. The example he gave is "there was a project to created this kind of vaccine. " The university was running the project, but it isn"t the university.