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WRONG
  • What Can Possibly Go In The Civil
    Works Process?
  • Module 28

Civil Works Orientation Course - FY 11
2
What 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.
3
What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
  • Every step of the civil works project
  • development process is
  • fraught with peril.

4
What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
  • You may be able to identify a problem,
  • but not a willing or capable sponsor.

5
What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
  • You may have a willing and capable sponsor,
  • but no identified Federal interest problem.

6
What 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!!
7
The 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)
8
What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
You get the study team member from Hell.
9
What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
  • Cost estimates always increase,
  • usually at the last minute.

10
What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
  • Benefits evaporate,
  • also usually at the last minute.

11
What 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.

12
What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
Your category 3 levee gets hit by a category 5
hurricane!??!!
13
What 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.

14
What 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).

15
What 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.
16
What 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.

17
What 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
18
What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
  • You get the study/project that caused someone
    else to
  • quit or retire.

19
What 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.

20
What 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.

21
What 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.

22
What 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.

23
What 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.

24
What 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?

25
What 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!!

26
What 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?

27
What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works
Process?
MODULE SUMMARY NOLO CORBORUNDUM ILLEGITAE.
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