Web-based Project Management System (WPMS)

Major categories

Weaknesses

• Considering the exponential rate of technological changes, this list may not be exhaustive as most service providers are constantly trying to reshape themselves to meet customer demands
• i.e. a feature offered one day may be changed, modified, or not available the next day

• Project Collaboration Network (PCN)
• The system aims at sharing project-specific documents, communications, and workflow and serves as a repository for documents or as an online document management system for a project team
• Backing up files daily, keeping a document revision history, and tracking who accesses files
• Project Information Portal (PIP)
• Mainly provides general information needs for the participants in a construction project
• eg) codes and permits, economic trends, product information, cost data, and project planning information that a project team might use throughout the life of a construction project
• Project Procurement Exchange (PPE)
• Aims to streamline the procurement cycle of construction materials and services
• Provides electronic bidding and procurement services, which generally allow users to view online catalogs of products and services
• Transmit request for quotations
• Exchange cost-related data
• Review work packages
• Conduct bidding and procurement online

Benefits of WPMS

Potential benefits

• Cost advantage
• Outsourcing advantage
• Competition among IT professionals
• Application Service Provider’s competition

• Increase in the quality of documents
• Speed of work
• Better financial control and communications
• Simpler and faster access to common data
• Decrease in documentation errors

Web-based Project Management System (WPMS)

• Difficulties in quantifying costs and benefits
• System reliability
• System security
• Legal issues of electronic transactions
• Lack of software interoperability
• Data ownership after project completion
• Internet access and bandwidth problems
• Resistance to change
• Password barrier
• Density of communication channels
• Team tools and problems of something for everyone
• Collaborative maturity

Potential barriers to implementation

Introduction and Background

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Seung-hyun Kim - 11248287

Omar Deeb - 11710682

Luca Cossetto- 11709247

16137 Digital Built Environment

13 September 2013

• The construction industry is fragmented due to the many stakeholders and phases involved in a construction project
• This fragmentation has led to well documented problems with communication and information processing and has contributed to the proliferation of adversarial relationships between the parties to a project
• This fragmentation is also often seen as one of the major contributors to low productivity in construction
• Information technology (IT) is now routinely used in the construction industry as a tool to reduce some of the problems generated by fragmentation

This report describes and identifies what Web-based project management system is, particularly through the use of application in services provided in construction industry.

Conclusions

• Web-based Project Management System (WPMS) brings significant benefits to the construction industry
• But their successful implementation is still hindered by barriers, for the most part nontechnical
• In order for the construction industry to successfully embrace Project Management System-Application Service Providers, many factors such as technology, process, people, procurement, legal issues, and knowledge management must be considered equally

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