I’m a building surveying student. I’m doing my final year thesis and now having problem to decide the topic. I’ve narrowed down to a few ideas include project organizational factor, time management, and cost management. Which one would be better topic for a thesis? or any better suggestions?
How about, "How did the world manage before project management was invented"?
Unlike yourself (I’m sure) most project managers know sweet about construction, let alone architectural design, and often turn out to be the weakest link in the project (although it is a competition between them and the M& E engineers). They tend to engender the blame culture and quite frankly in many cases are another overhead to add to the (already inflated) cost of building today. The biggest failing is not managing the clients’ expectatioins – they are employed by the client and so usually end up telling them what they want to hear. The design team have a duty of care and are bound to tell it how it is.
You seem to have overlooked ‘quality’ in your assessment – any project is a function of time, cost and quality – usually one is at the expense of the others. Maybe you could try some case studies to see how the process works?
