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Restoration Design. Incorporating Design and Project Management into Restoration Practice. Kern Ewing and Jim Fridley Restoration Ecology and Environmental Horticulture Program University of Washington, Seattle http://www.cfr.washington.edu/classes.cfr.302 /.
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Restoration Design Incorporating Design and Project Management into Restoration Practice
Kern Ewing and Jim Fridley • Restoration Ecology and Environmental Horticulture Program • University of Washington, Seattle http://www.cfr.washington.edu/classes.cfr.302/
Why design and project management? • To efficiently use time and resources • To make sure you make deadlines and hit windows • To make sure everything is done • To communicate with clients, regulators • To budget • To document your work • To come up with better solutions
Design stages: • Identification of need • Problem framing • Setting design requirements and constraints • Synthesis of design parameters • Approval and acceptance • Implementation • Assessment and adjustment
Stakeholders • Problem owner (client) • Those responsible for proposing or initiating action (design team) • Those who implement solutions (workers) • Those who may benefit from, or be injured by, proposed actions (affected persons) • Potential blockers (activists, regulators, bureaucrats, manager).
Time Progress along design sequence Steps Implementation
Design stages: • Identification of need • Problem framing • Setting design requirements and constraints • Synthesis of design parameters • Approval and acceptance • Implementation • Assessment and adjustment
Design stages (1): identification of need • Assigned problems • Self-identified problems
Get a concise description of project in words of stakeholders. • Communicate a concise restatement of project in words of design team (Active Listening)
Design stages (2): problem framing • Dominating Perspective or Viewpoint • Establish Policy & System Level Functional Requirements and Constraints • Set Tolerance and Acceptance Criteria • Identify Top Level Constraint Owners (Stakeholders) • Identify Collaborators for Concurrent Design
Design stages (3): setting design requirements and constraints
Functional Requirements (FR’s) • Functional Objectives Stated in Solution-Neutral Terms Constraints (C’s) • Limitations on Designer Freedom • All C’s Must Be Owned by a Stakeholder
Constraints • Constraint Owner • No more than… • At least… • Without… • Limits, bounds • Functional Requirements • Problem Owner • Provide … • Increase … • Decrease ... • Don’t have but want or need
Design stages (4): Synthesis of design parameters • Iterative: you go back and forth between stages 3 and 4.
Design is done when: • Persons of ordinary skill can implement the solution so that it performs the desired functions. • The solution does not violate constraints.
Goal of project management: • Achieve better outcomes • Meet FR’s • Not violate C’s • Stay within budget • Complete project within a pre-determined time
Planning and sequencing • Identify tasks • Identify precedence relationships (A must precede B) • Estimate task durations • Sequence the tasks to meet precedence requirement
Task list • Tasks might be: Plan for vegetation Plant site Condition site Remove invasive plants Purchase seed Select and propagate Replace dead plants Monitor installation Develop succession management plan Install large woody debris Control for human activity
Determine Precedence Generate a table that shows, for each task, what tasks must precede and what tasks must follow. BPA project example at right.
Look at the project sequencing as a diagram with circles and arrows: Start Finish Condition Site Start Finish Plant Site Start Finish/Start Finish Condition Site Plant Site
Determine Precedence Generate a table that shows, for each task, what tasks must precede and what tasks must follow. BPA project example at right.
10 0 5 10 7 3 5 4 3 2 ? ? 10 0 0 Task durations are shown in black
10 20 10 0 5 10 25 23 7 15 20 0 10 7 3 5 4 3 2 ? 25 ? 10 0 0 10 Task durations are shown in black Early start times are shown in green
10 20 10 0 5 10 25 23 7 15 20 0 10 7 3 5 4 3 2 ? 23 25 ? 10 0 0 10 Task durations are shown in black Early start times are shown in green Late start times are shown in red Determine Late Starts/Discuss/Submit
10 10 10 20 20 15 0 5 10 25 20 0 0 7 10 15 23 7 3 5 4 3 2 ? 1 8 11 16 20 23 25 13 ? 10 0 0 10 23 Task durations are shown in black Early start times are shown in green Late start times are shown in red
10 G-10 10 20 20 15 0 F-5 B-10 25 20 0 A-7 E-3 D-5 K-4 C-3 L-2 I-? 0 7 10 15 23 1 8 11 16 20 23 25 13 J-10 0 H-? 0 10 23 Tasks and their durations are shown in black Early start times are shown in green Late start times are shown in red
Gantt Chart Complete/Discuss/Submit