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Software provides a framework for designing an execution plan to create a global virtual engineering team. Addresses key issues involved (organization, scope definition/work sharing, communication, and others) at the company and project levels. Also provides a method for capturing and managing lessons learned. May be used in various phases of a project.

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Helps monitor various criteria such as duration, cost, business, and quality throughout a project. The end result is that focus can be brought into play exactly where a team’s efforts are needed to achieve project success. The worksheets can be used individually or together to evaluate project performance.

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An update to the Owner/Contractor Work Structure Process Handbook (IR111-2), this new publication provides owners with a framework to communicate and manage their relationships with providers of project development and execution services. Includes worksheets to identify competencies and illustrations of how to use them.

Its worksheets are available as downloadable Word files.

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Provides direction for implementing and managing a virtual team (a group collaborating via electronic media from various geographic locations) in a project management environment. This guide explains how management and IT issues common with most project teams require a different approach with virtual teams. Includes a primary checklist for implementing and managing a virtual team.

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Contains worksheets on three areas that lead to high performance project teams: leader selection, team leadership, and team health. Provides effective tools that can improve project leadership.

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Aids users in evaluating partnering, selecting a partner, and implementing and maintaining a partnering relationship. ToolKit software is provided to allow user to develop customized processes that are critical to the success of their own partnering relationships.

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Note: The software is pre-1997 and no longer runs on current platforms. It is being refreshed.

Designed to be used by project managers as a diagnostic tool to assess project team’s communications effectiveness during the design and construction phases of an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) project. Software consolidates and analyzes survey data, then reports results in an overall communcations effectiveness score.

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Addresses different organizational teams and the importance of teamwork. An uncertainty matrix is used to show the importance of project definition.

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Presents findings into an investigation to determine the correct amount and timing of involvement by various owner entities that leads to project success. Uses several indices to measure such areas as pre-project planning, owner's involvement, and project management, as well as outcomes of system performance (duration, cost, business, quality), all of which are in the Project Priority Calculator, Implementation Resource 204-2.

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Describes how it is now possible to adopt virtual teaming strategies that facilitate better communication and management of global design teams. Also discusses a software tool, the Global Virtual Engineering Team (GVET) Execution Planner, that facilitates global engineering work force establishment and execution.