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One step out from "repeat successful designs" perhaps is "use the same project planning team / infrastructure from one project to the next" ? A critical flaw i
by cduzz 3y ago
One step out from "repeat successful designs" perhaps is "use the same project planning team / infrastructure from one project to the next" ?
A critical flaw in US infrastructure is that the infrastructure owners typically have no "large project" management skills -- the transit system is run at a "starvation level" that keeps the staffing at just barely enough to keep the system running and there's no spare resource to have some "enormous engineering project" project manager just sitting around just in case you want to run a big project. Instead these organizations hire an external project management organization that (usually) doesn't share incentives with the client organization.
It's unsurprising that large infrastructure projects without proper oversight end up being run poorly.
- mkesper 3y agoFrom the article: VA: This lack of effective leadership from the public sector comes up over and over again in your discussions of American transit, both internally and in their relationships with other actors. They struggle at cooperating with other agencies — with the Department of Transportation, with the Department of Environmental Protection, with parks, with buildings, with the fire department. And they’re also quite inefficient at managing consultants because they don’t have enough technical in-house knowledge to really understand how to. AL: Exactly. So then they’ll hire a consultant to manage the consultants — it’s the most ridiculous thing.