Saturday, November 17, 2012

PMI 2011 "Project of the Year": Effective Program Management for Prairie Waters

Prairie Waters (Aurora photo)
PrairieNet was the name of an IT portal built for managing the $700M, multi-year water project for Aurora, Colorado. Critigen provided a single PM solution was used across multiple contractors and bid projects to maximize document access and schedule integration.

The portal used Oracle Primavera, Microsoft Sharepoint, and Map Guide GIS to provide a tool that streamlines communication, encourages collaboration, and supported superior performance on such a large construction project. The system required 4 people to run it, cost about $1.5M, and was directly responsible for saving $8M.

Typically, a large construction project like this would have many silos of fragmented information that can result in many delays. Dan Nicholson explained that a $1M/day burn rate is one incentive for providing a dashboard and communications tool like PrairieNet to reduce land claims risks. Another lasting benefit remains with the client, City of Aurora, to provide an excellent document repository for warranties, permits, and easements.

More info on the Aurora Prairie Waters project (link).

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