what can possibly go in the civil works process? module 28

What Can Possibly Go In The Civil Works Process?

Module 28

Civil Works Orientation Course - FY 11

What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the What Can Possibly Go Wrong in the Civil Works Process?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.


Every step of the civil works project

development process is

fraught with peril.


You may be able to identify a problem,

but not a willing or capable sponsor.


You may have a willing and capable sponsor,

but no identified Federal interest problem.


HQUSACE decides that it’s time to implement...

OP3Interface

Xferof

Codes

CEFMS

PM(Primavera - P3e)

OP(Oracle Project)

PRACInterface

The P2 Process FlowTransfer the project’s • Activities• Schedule Date Information• Resource and Cost Information

Transfer the project’s • Resource and Cost (PRAC)

Information to create the Work Item (WI) in CEFMS

Transfer the project’s • Activity Code

information to CEFMS

Note: Codes are transferred during the PRAC interface


You get the study team member from Hell.


Cost estimates always increase,

usually at the last minute.


Benefits evaporate,

also usually at the last minute.


The real Risk and Uncertainty

associated with H&H?

Assuming that the initial calculations

approximate the final.


Your category 3 levee gets hit by a category 5 hurricane!??!!


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.


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).


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.


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 team’s initial estimate for

the PMP.


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


You get the study/project that caused someone else to

quit or retire.


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.


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.


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.


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.

HELP


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.

Don’t take it personally, it is just the nature of the system.


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?


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!!


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?


MODULE SUMMARY

“NOLO CORBORUNDUM ILLEGITAE.”

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