Successful project management requires a combination of experience, tools, techniques, and leadership skills. These factors coupled with the individual's enthusiasm, personal character and attention to detail are significant contributors to the success (or failure) of a project.

Effective Project Management:

Zachry Nuclear's experiences, spanning three decades, have clearly demonstrated that effective project management requires skills beyond writing a document with schedules and budgets. In addition, being successful requires that the project manager be more than someone who can get by with technical expertise or pure administrative skills alone. A summary of the various skills required of a successful project manager includes:

• Project Management
• Team Building
• Conflict Resolution Basic Fundamentals
• Leadership
• Entrepreneurship
• Technical Expertise
• Management Support
• Resource Allocation
• Planning
• Organization
• Administration

Project management is an interactive endeavor; an action, or failure to take action, in one aspect of a project normally impacts other areas. The interactions may be clear-cut and well understood, or they may be subtler and the impact not recognized at the time. For example, a scope change usually affects project cost, but it may or may not affect the schedule, team morale or product quality. It is important that the project manager is able to identify the key interrelationships and understand that these interactions often require tradeoffs to be made among project objectives; performance in one area may be improved only by sacrificing performance in another. Successful project management requires actively managing these interactions to achieve the maximum possible benefit for the Project.

To assist in the planning and implementation of successful Projects, as well as, aid the development of effective project managers, Zachry Nuclear can provide the following services:

• Unique project management tools to supplement the traditional methods used to plan and monitor projects.
• Project management assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of a utility's existing project management processes and/or their project managers' performance.
• Project management workshops that focus on topics that address the unique demands placed on a Project Manager.
• Senior project managers, with proven track records and demonstrated abilities to manage projects under difficult constraints.