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The Stealth Project Profit Killer: 12 Steps to Get Scope Creep Back on Your Radar Screen

This new half-day seminar discusses the numerous off-the-shelf and affordable project accounting software packages available to assist project managers. The speaker will show project managers how to better make use of these packages to improve their project management duties.

Estimating project fees
Use of project work breakdown structure (phases and tasks)
Project setup
Budget project fees, by discipline, department or office
Separate and tract reimbursable and non-reimbursable expenses
Manage subconsultants, including pay-when paid reports
Automatic invoicing for various contract fee types
Monitor project progress, beyond percent spent of the budget
Share project responsibility across offices and/or departments

Mr. Ingardia will convey numerous proven techniques to improve the fiscal management of design projects. This session will teach architectural and engineering design project managers how to better use today’s off-the-shelf on-line technology tools to improve estimating, scheduling, budgeting, invoicing and monitoring design projects. These techniques apply for all contract types, such as: cost plus, cost plus to a maximum, cost plus fixed fee, lump sum or percent of construction.

Mr. Ingardia will present 12 steps that assist project managers to more quickly identify “scope creep,” the most common killer of project profits on lump sum and hourly-to-a-max design projects.

All of the new SMC “Technology for Better Business” seminars are presented in a non-technical format, expressed in everyday business terms that everyone can easily understand. This seminar is a must for all project managers who use technology tools to improve the fiscal management aspects of managing their A-E design project.

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