Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
I've worked overseas including the gulf region for many years with an International Company called CCC which you might be familiar with. I was deployed on mega jobs where sometimes the project was on phases, sometimes it was one phase. It all depends on the size pf the project, complexity, company's management skills and resources.
From construction point of view, phases can have two approaches:
2- In Oil and Gas projects, some gas trains might be constructed as Phase I and the rest left for Phase II development. Saving Changes...
Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
To me a phase is the lowest level of a project breakdown structure (PBS). Each phase is a project in its own right: initiation, planning, execution, control and closure.
Put another way, a phase should contain the smallest amount of scope that can be be delivered and still provide value.
Last summer, I delivered a first phase towards a client's overall enterprise data governance project. The first phase was meant to define the scope of enterprise data governance and delivered a business case, a proposal, and a proposed implementation approach. The phase was treated like a project in its own right. All three deliverables were needed to provide value to the client. Saving Changes...
Eric LamySenior Project Manager| Keurig Green MountainNewbury, Ma, United States
In my experience, even the smallest projects worthy of being called such have some level of phasing. Those phases don't necessarily follow a set structure, however, so the concept is something of an abstraction and must be defined either on a case by case basis, or within some broader hierarchy. Saving Changes...
Anonymous
Jan 25, 2016 12:53 PM
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I've worked overseas including the gulf region for many years with an International Company called CCC which you might be familiar with. I was deployed on mega jobs where sometimes the project was on phases, sometimes it was one phase. It all depends on the size pf the project, complexity, company's management skills and resources.
From construction point of view, phases can have two approaches:
2- In Oil and Gas projects, some gas trains might be constructed as Phase I and the rest left for Phase II development.
Rami
I know CCC well.
What you are talking about is a different type of phasing. You are you talking about when a company breakdown the implementation of a project into parts (called phases). Like phase 1 will be Tower 1 and 2; Phase 2 will be tower 3, 4, and 5. Sometimes, these "phases" might even be funded separately (as semi-independent projects). In this case, what we have is a program with multiple projects.
The other type of a phase is when the project life cycle is broken down into phases - usually sequential with some overlap - and each phase has a purpose - an output that we need for the next phase.
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Jan 26, 2016 3:19 AM
Rami Kaibni
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You are correct Mounir - This is exactly what I meant when I explained that there are two approaches for phasing.
Approach 1 is the phasing you explained in your second paragraph.
Approach 2 is the phasing explained in your first paragraph.
This is as far as I understood the question unless I overlooked something.
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Anonymous
Jan 25, 2016 7:58 PM
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In my experience, even the smallest projects worthy of being called such have some level of phasing. Those phases don't necessarily follow a set structure, however, so the concept is something of an abstraction and must be defined either on a case by case basis, or within some broader hierarchy.
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Paolo CornaliProject Manager| HTA srlBrescia, Lombardia, Italy
In my company a project can be divided in the following sub-phases: feasibility, planning, design, review, prototyping, verification, construction, validation.
Moreover each phase have its initiation, planning, execution, control and closing procedures. Saving Changes...
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