Diary of a Rookie Project Manager 46
PETER Honest Dateme, PMP, FNIA, CFPM
Vice President + Healthcare Architect + Project Manager + Salutogenesis Advocate + Trauma Healing Facilitator + Speaker + Author and Life Coach at Divine Dimensions Consult
# 46
Wednesday April 26,
?Dear Diary,
?It has become too troublesome to my professional emotions that within about twelve day, Nigeria has had about three major building collapse cases.
?Why would I wake up in the morning as a project manager to be greeted by the news media that building construction projects are having ultimate structural failures and crumbling to the ground.
?Cost of non-conformance is usually far more than cost of conformance. I was talking with some men I met out of schedule in the restaurant along Ahmadu Bello Way the other day. I eavesdropped on their conversation about the concerns of building collapse in Nigeria and they pointed at quality as the culprit.
?I had to enquire how often their organizations send them to train of HSE, Quality Metrics and other related courses. Of course I had noticed their reflective jackets and safety shoes and knew they were technical staff of a construction company. They had gone to have their lunch outside their project site and I met them picking their teeth and belching.
?First I thought their sweaty shirts and mud patched rugged denim pants could make them understand my question on Cost of Quality so I broke it down further.
?COQ in project quality management refers to the costs incurred for all activities relating to ensuring high quality deliverables and cost resulting from poor deliverables. The addition of Cost of conformance and cost of non-conformance gives total COQ.
?My question to them was to ascertain an estimate cost of conformance, which involves funds used in:
- training them
- purchasing right equipment
- concrete test in the right laboratories by competent engineers.
- any other cost to prevent poor quality.
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?However, Cost of non conformance for their project may include funds they spend on:
- repair work
- demolition of poor work and rework
- legal fees for court cases resulting from injuries or death of staff on project site.
- payment to families of deceased artisans who died in the collapse.
- hospital bills.
- rebranding of the organization's dented image as a result of the building collapse.
?Cost of non conformance is usually much more than cost of comformance. However, to my shock, only two of them had attended an online course on OSHA, the other two felt the organization only trains expatriate staff. Well, I was glad that our conversation made them wonder what if they become victims of building collapse.
?Anyway, today was a good one and progress report showed we got back on track after schedule compression. We had a brief hybrid meeting with Kathryn and Mr. H??t about milestone funding review to evaluate its effectiveness, putting into consideration the political risk that could result from change in government of Nigeria.
?We had also evaluated our resource empowerment initiative. When we started the project we had planned to use a certain percentage of indigenous workforce with the intention of technology transfer and construction knowledge sharing as organizational social responsibility. I compiled my data and fed them into the online reporting format platform.
?Dear Diary, I don't want to forget that I got an email from our head office to prepare a trip to Mombasa, Kenya. Just when my one year stay in Jos is reprogramming me 70% northern. Schedule?and Scope Consulting's organizing, scheduling and managing project's resources – people, tools, equipment, tech, and facilities – in the most efficient way is usually a great asset and I guess this reconnaissance trip would serve as a team building trip also.
?Anyway, I'm excited and look forward to it.