Project Management

Successful Project Management doesn’t happen by accident. Alisto personnel apply knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet and exceed stakeholder expectations. Accomplishing this requires balancing competing demands among scope, time, cost, quality, and timely communication.

Once the client identifies the work, the Alisto PM will provide a scope of work with preliminary cost and schedule. We will monitor each task to completion using tools like WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) for scope, MS-Project & Primavera for schedules, and Cash Flow and Budget Curves to obtain the “earned value”. Earned Value is the integrator to make scope and schedules compatible with contract and project metrics.

Scope Development

Alisto’s Project Manager will obtain client’s approval on the scope (“scope freeze”) after the following process is completed:

• Conducting a field job review
• Interviewing critical end users
• Obtaining technical documentation (permits, drawings, standards, material specs.)
• Issuing a first draft for review with Work Tasks Breakdown
• Accuracy review by stakeholders
• Weighing scope alternatives
• Issuing final scope agreement (“scope freeze”)

COST ENGINEERING, BUDGET PLANNING, COST TRACKING AND EARNED VALUE

Alisto adheres to the PMI (Project Management Institute) standards for project budgeting. We use the scope of work and the performance requirements for the project to allocate, track, and analyze the budget for the elements of work.

Alisto Cost Engineers key objective is to arrive at accurate cost estimates, budgets, and forecasting to avoid project cost overruns. Throughout the life of a project, The Alisto Cost Engineer will provide several types of project estimates as follows:

Conceptual or Order of Magnitude Estimate --- Minimum information +/- 50% accurate
Factored Estimate --- After all equipment is priced +/- 70% accurate
Preliminary Estimate --- Scope of work frozen and engineering is 10% done +/- 80 accurate
Basis of Budget Estimate --- After engineering is 50% done +/- 90% accurate
Detailed or Firm Price Construction Estimate --- Engineering is 90% done +/- 95 accurate

With our Cost Engineering & Project Control Analyst services, Alisto can offer integrated budget planning, cost tracking, and earned value analyses to forecast and track budget cost.

PROJECT ENGINEERING, DESIGN CRITERIA, PERMITS & FACILITY ENGINEERING

Alisto Project Engineers are individuals who lead the engineering design on a specific project. He may be the sole designer on the job, or may be the leader of a large multidisciplinary design team. There are various levels of project engineers at Alisto. We have Senior Engineers who manage several individual projects, who may themselves manage other designers, draftsmen, and assistants.

There are a number of different types of project engineers, and each relies on different training and skills to produce designs. Civil and Geotechnical engineers perform site designs, study soil composition, and create plans for roads and other structures. Mechanical engineers design equipment, instruments, and pipe systems. Electrical engineers calculate appropriate power supplies and controls for buildings and equipment. Finally, structural engineers use weights and loads of materials to design safe structural elements or systems.

Our engineers use tools and processes like design criteria, preliminary engineering, cost estimates, detail design, and construction drawings to provide facility designs, engineering packages, and field oversight from start to finish, exceeding all expectations.

PROJECT SCHEDULING AND REPORTING

At Alisto Engineering project scheduling is considered a subset of project management. Scheduling is carried out in advance of the project commencing and involves:

• identifying the tasks that need to be carried out;
• estimating how long they will take;
• allocating resources (mainly personnel);
• scheduling when the tasks will occur.

Once the project is underway, the Alisto Project Control Analyst will analyze and report project data to ensure that the plan continues to represent the best prediction of what will occur in the future. Alisto’s effective project planning will help to ensure that the systems are delivered:

• within cost;
• within the time constraint;
• to a specific standard of quality.

Project Close-out, Commisioning and Documentations

The last major phase of a project's life cycle is the close-out. Closing a project should be a fairly routine process.

The key elements to project close-out are:

• Accepting the project's products indicated by user sign-off
• Completing the Post Implementation Evaluation Report (PIER)
• Disbursing the resources—staff, facilities, and automated systems
• Conducting a lessons learned session (Project Critique)
• Completing and archiving project records
• Recognizing outstanding achievement
• Celebrating project completion