Title: What Can Possibly Go In The Civil Works Process?
1WRONG
- What Can Possibly Go In The Civil
Works Process? -
- Module 28
Civil Works Orientation Course - FY 11
2What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
MODULE OBJECTIVE To reassure the student that
although you may be paranoid, that does not mean
that someone is not out to get you.
3What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- Every step of the civil works project
- development process is
- fraught with peril.
4What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- You may be able to identify a problem,
- but not a willing or capable sponsor.
5What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- You may have a willing and capable sponsor,
- but no identified Federal interest problem.
6What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- HQUSACE decides that its time to implement...
USACE 2012
NSPS
ACE-IT
P2
PROMIS!!
.. CEFMS!!
.. PED Cost Sharing!!
.. Project Management!!
7The Wonderful World of P2
- Transfer the projects
- Resource and Cost (PRAC) Information to create
the Work Item (WI) in CEFMS
PRAC Interface
CEFMS
OP (Oracle Project)
The P2 Process Flow
- Transfer the projects
- Activities
- Schedule Date Information
- Resource and Cost Information
Xfer of Codes
OP3 Interface
- Transfer the projects
- Activity Code information to CEFMS
- Note Codes are transferred during the PRAC
interface
PM (Primavera - P3e)
8What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
You get the study team member from Hell.
9What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- Cost estimates always increase,
- usually at the last minute.
10What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- Benefits evaporate,
- also usually at the last minute.
11What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- The real Risk and Uncertainty associated with
HH? - Assuming that the initial calculations
approximate the final.
12What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
Your category 3 levee gets hit by a category 5
hurricane!??!!
13What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- The regulation you cite as the basis for
establishing the Federal interest for the
proposed project ... is the same regulation cited
by the RIT as the basis for denying that a
Federal interest exists.
14What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- The Lawyers get involved in the
negotiations/review for the (insert the title of
whatever document is critical to your project at
the particular moment).
15What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
Just prior to preparation of your report, the
Information Management Office announces that your
office is to be immediately switched to a new
computer software system located only on the
central server computer. Guess how many months
will pass before training is available, and how
often the system crashes during the first three
months.
16What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- The budget estimate prepared in ten seconds
three years ago for the J-Sheets is now a
set-in-stone, no-excuses figure that is only 2/3
of your teams initial estimate for the PMP.
17What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- Key Study Team Members Will
-
- 1) Get a Long Term Assignment Two
- Light Years Away
- 2) Get Seriously Ill
- 3) Get Pregnant
- 4) Get Divorced
- 5) Get a Promotion That Requires Replacement on
Your Team - 6) Always Be in Demand for Other Studies
Family Issues
Family Issues
Family Issues
18What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- You get the study/project that caused someone
else to - quit or retire.
19What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- The big, well financed sponsor will always have
problems meeting the financing schedule for the
study/project, while the little guy is always
right there when required. - However, this does not apply when it would work
to your advantage.
20What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- 30 days prior to the AFB you brief the Division
Engineer on the site of the proposed project,
explaining how wonderful the project will be, and
how smoothly everything is proceeding. - Guess how many days later you are notified by
Engineering that the project cost has suddenly
increased 60 and how many months you have to
delay holding the AFB.
21What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- While the draft report is out for public review,
your Sponsor has an election. - One of the principal candidates for mayor aligns
herself with an environmental group previously
unknown to you that opposes your recommended
project. - Guess who wins the election and how many times
you are asked to testify before various city
committees before and after the election.
22What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
HELP
- While the draft report is out for review, some
nitpicking Lawyer from Real Estate will not
accept the repeated assurances from Engineering
that there is no way that there could be any
induced flood damages downstream from the
project. - To settle the issue you personally investigate
the situation, including making a site visit. - Guess who was correct, how much did it add to
the cost of the project, and how many pages it
added to the report.
23What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- Your report recommends Federal action to solve a
water resource related problem. - You immediately feel as if you have been
attacked by a school of piranha. - Dont take it personally, it is just the nature
of the system.
24What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- PED commences and a couple of years pass.
- The Project Manager notifies you that a large
industry at a complex and critical project
location has reworked its operation and changed
all of its access routes. - Do you still have in your possession all of the
formulation details for the floodwall located at
that site?
25What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- PED has completed and the first construction
contract has been awarded. - The Project Manager notifies you that
improvements to the project recommended by the
Value Engineering study have resulted in cost
increases exceeding the Section 902 limit!!??!! - The PM needs your assistance in getting the
project reauthorized!!
26What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
- The project has been constructed and many years
have passed. - GAO shows up at the District announcing their
intention to perform an audit of this and several
other projects. You are the sole remaining team
member still employed by the Federal government. - Do you know where the files are located?
27What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
MODULE SUMMARY NOLO CORBORUNDUM ILLEGITAE.
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