Project Coordination for Success

Abstract

Coordination among project participants is recognized as one of the important success attributes. Coordination activities carried out by a coordinator for achieving day-to-day coordination in a construction project have been identified. Based on the analysis of questionnaire responses the coordination activities have been ranked in descending order of their importance on the four performance criteria: schedule, cost, quality, and no-dispute. The ranking of coordination activities has also been done for the overall success of a construction project and top 20 coordination activities have been identified. The top activities have been evaluated for their criticality in ensuring overall success and the assessment of probabilities of coordination ratings has also been carried out. Further the top coordination activities have also been grouped in fewer factors based on the analysis of second stage questionnaire. The most critical factor to achieve good coordination among project participants has emerged to be ‘resource handling’, followed by ‘planning’, ‘team-building’, and ‘contract implementation’.

This chapter is based on (a) Critical determinants of project coordination, International Journal of Project Management, 24(4), 2006, with permission from Elsevier, and (b) Ranking and classification of construction coordination activities in Indian projects, Construction Management and Economics, 25(4), 2007, with permission from Taylor and Francis.