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- Employees plan tasks for the week, with hourly entries. This detailed plan is an estimate, but it
helps project managers to monitor manpower and resources. By the weekend, each employee records
their work in a database that works out how much of what was planned got completed. The data is
used to monitor utilisation, which is typically targeted in excess of 80. percent.
- A blueprint explains the content of a schematic design set of drawings, or a DD or CD set of drawings,
and instructs how and when to build it, broken down into manageable phases and deliverables.
- Each phase contains defined tasks, and projects can be viewed as checklists, detailing each
employee’s progress. This way, a competitive environment is created and the workforce is
encouraged to follow set guidelines. This format helps people know exactly which part of the process
they are currently at.
- Other than accountability, people can function without interruptions, since everyone has access to
each other’s checklist, which in turn aids project management.
- Architectural tools, such as AutoCAD, cut turnaround time. BIM has the potential to squeeze
production cycles even shorter, while at the same time expand, by leaps and bounds, the quality and
quantity of data in the final ‘product’.
With these new tools and new attitudes, clients from the West are expecting, demanding and
receiving more from a culture primed to adapt constantly. Industry-specific deliverables, now being
processed with global professional standards, have attained a new level of expertise and quality in
India – a perfect fit indeed.