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Project Management

Notes early stages of a project and its potential impact on project success. Until now, however, the
building industry has been lacking a practical, non-proprietary method for determining the
degree of scope development on a project. The PDRI for buildings is the first publicly available
tool of its kind in this sector. It allows a project planning team to quantify, rate, and assess the
level of scope development on projects prior to beginning development of construction
documents.
A significant feature of the PDRI is that it can be utilized to fit the needs of almost any individual
project, small or large. Elements that are not applicable to a specific project can be zeroed out,
thus eliminating them from the final scoring calculation.

The PDRI is quick and easy to use. It is a “best practice” tool that will provide numerous benefits
to the building industry. A few of these include:
1. A checklist that a project team can use for determining the necessary steps to follow in
defining the project scope
2. A listing of standardized scope definition terminology throughout the building industry
3. An industry standard for rating the completeness of the project scope definition package
to facilitate risk assessment and prediction of escalation, potential for disputes, etc.
4. A means to monitor progress at various stages during the front end planning effort
5. A tool that aids in communication and promotes alignment between owners and design
contractors by highlighting poorly defined areas in a scope definition package
6. A means for project team participants to reconcile differences using a common basis for
project evaluation
7. A training tool for organizations and individuals throughout the industry
8. A benchmarking tool for organizations to use in evaluating completion of scope definition
versus the performance of past projects, both within their organization and externally, in
order to predict the probability of success on future projects.

Task Discuss the importance of PDRI.

Why should use the PDRI?

The PDRI can benefit facility owners such as NASA, as well as designers and constructors. NASA
planners can use it as an assessment tool for establishing a comfort level at which they are
willing to move forward with projects. Designers and constructors working with NASA can use
it as a method of identifying poorly defined project scope definition elements. The PDRI provides
a means for all project participants to communicate and reconcile differences using an objective
tool as a common basis for project scope evaluation.

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Caution The front end planning process of a PDRI should consider the following factors:
1. Feasibility
2. Concept
3. Detailed scope
4. Design and construction

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