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Oraib Nawash Innovation Project Manager| Free Lancer Orland Park, Il, United States
Hello everyone.
I am currently running two connected projects that include several partner agencies. Once an agency finishes the tasks and accomplishes all milestones, the agency will wait until we launch the next project and do the next phase. Now as agencies vary in their times of accomplishing the first project, and as the project has several rounds, I am planning to have the two projects as two ongoing ones. Once agency finishes the first one, it will jump to another one. Does anyone did this before? Any tips?
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Oraib -

Having similar external dependencies on multiple concurrent projects is a fairly common challenge if I interpret your scenario correctly. This situation does elevate the severity of dependency-related schedule risks, especially if one or more partner agencies is not disciplined about tracking & communicating progress on their portion of the projects or if they are taking on more work than can be efficiently delivered.

Having an integrated schedule which the PMs or representatives from the partner agencies have developed with you and have ongoing visibility into will help as will sharing issue log content where there are cross-organization implications.

Kiron
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Nov 21, 2023 11:41 PM
Oraib Nawash
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Thank you Kiron. I agree with you, we need to involve the partner agency in the plan.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Oraib

We do this all the time in our projects. Schedule multiple projects to overlap at some point so when a contractor finishes from one, they can jump on to the other. This will save mobilization cost, overheads and we will also make use of economies of scale in terms of material. A mater schedule that includes all projects and agreed to with all partners and the organization is key.

RK
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1 reply by Oraib Nawash
Nov 21, 2023 11:39 PM
Oraib Nawash
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Thank you Rami for your tip. This is helpful
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Oraib Nawash Innovation Project Manager| Free Lancer Orland Park, Il, United States
Nov 21, 2023 4:56 PM
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Oraib

We do this all the time in our projects. Schedule multiple projects to overlap at some point so when a contractor finishes from one, they can jump on to the other. This will save mobilization cost, overheads and we will also make use of economies of scale in terms of material. A mater schedule that includes all projects and agreed to with all partners and the organization is key.

RK
Thank you Rami for your tip. This is helpful
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Oraib Nawash Innovation Project Manager| Free Lancer Orland Park, Il, United States
Nov 21, 2023 4:36 PM
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Oraib -

Having similar external dependencies on multiple concurrent projects is a fairly common challenge if I interpret your scenario correctly. This situation does elevate the severity of dependency-related schedule risks, especially if one or more partner agencies is not disciplined about tracking & communicating progress on their portion of the projects or if they are taking on more work than can be efficiently delivered.

Having an integrated schedule which the PMs or representatives from the partner agencies have developed with you and have ongoing visibility into will help as will sharing issue log content where there are cross-organization implications.

Kiron
Thank you Kiron. I agree with you, we need to involve the partner agency in the plan.

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