• Project Management
• guzman architects, LLC. employs strong project management practices.
• The majority of our projects involve project teams made up of many people: from multiple professional consultancies, organizations, and the owner, all of whom are usually represented by more than only one or two people. Skillful management of this team is vital to the project’s success. Strong management practices are where; one can concentrate efforts on coordinating the participation of each team member to best accomplish the project objectives.
• guzman architects’s project management approach is to foster frequent and effective communication within the team and when appropriate, with external bodies or stakeholders. We use our learned management skills to establish clear assignment of roles and responsibilities of everybody on the team, we create and regularly revisit a shared vision statement for the project, and we maintain the focus, energy and engagement among team members by being passionate, persistent, committed, and patient.
• The easiest thing on any project to define is the project manager’s responsibility – simply, it is everything related to the project.
• The first and foremost responsibility of the project manager is to serve the client.
• Second is to accomplish rather than excuse.
• Third, is to know when to take charge – as it is desirable to have each member of the team the freedom to exercise judgment and creativity within the constraints of the project.
• Fourth is the PM’s responsibility to meet the schedule – this means doing everything possible to complete the project within the contractual time frame.
• The final responsibility of the strong project manager is to bring the project in on budget.
• We have found in our experience that strong project management practices best serve our clients and, in the long-term, our firm, because through a strong project manager we develop and maintain the trust and confidence of our customers, ensuring follow-on business from each project.