Project management practices for residential home construction planning

Project Management

Building a Home

Needs Identification

Building a home requires quite a number of things before you can start. It is important that before you go into the process of construction, you must first identify in details the things you will need and have them ready to allow a smooth and continuous flow of home construction. Following are several of the basic necessities when building a home (Cool House Plans Online).

House Plans

After choosing the builder, he can help during the process of house planning. Some architects welcome the idea of including the builder in house planning. This is because builders can also provide suggestions and comments during the process. A house plan is important in house building because it can eliminate mistakes during the process of house construction.

Financing Needs

Finance identification comes next after a house plan has been made. Actually, the process of creating a house plan may be based from the financial amount that the owner has in his budget (EZHomeBuild). The construction of a house must not start without identifying the monetary budget for the house.

Project Goals and Objectives

The goal and objective of the project is to develop a good project management practice wherein good strategies and methods will be applied when building a house. From such goal, problems can be avoided within the process of building the house. Moreover, with the help of the process of identifying the needs first before going into the process of house construction, the course of building the house can be properly managed.

In general, within the main goal of developing a good project management practice is the goal of identifying the important procedures that must be considered to complete the main goal. Following are some of the important subordinate objectives.

To have the skill and practice of identifying important requirements for a project

To have the skill and practice of organizing a project plan before starting the process of project development.

To have the skill and practice of following a systematic process of project development.

Schedule and WBS

Building a Home

Description:

Implementing a good project management in planning and building a home.

Input: Identified requirements for building a home

Output: A newly built home

Responsible Entity: Builder, House Planner, House Owner

Start Date:

End Date: June 2005