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Hard Hats and Hard Drives
If it’s the standardization and automation that attracts many in the construction field to project portfolio management software, how that ties into risk and reward keeps them coming back for more.
As Eddie West completed his degree in construction management from Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Ga. in 1994, he found himself literally surrounded by the process of building — inside and outside the classroom. Nearby Atlanta was teeming with activity in preparation to host the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, spurred by a massive $1.7 billion budget.
“I went into the office of the largest (project) and asked, ‘How do you keep up with all of this?’” West says.
The answer was Expedition, the long-time industry standard of project management software for the construction field now known as Oracle’s Primavera Contract Manager.
Impressed, he asked the teachers back at school if they knew anything about it. “It’s loaded on those machines back there but no one knows how to use it,” West recalls them saying. Even so, it was clear to everyone that they were looking at the future of construction management.
But progress is rarely linear. Later, as a newly minted graduate, West landed a job at the Albany, Ga.-based electrical contracting company MetroPower. &…
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