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Evolution of the Owner’s Role in Program Management - Activity: Project Management

March 5, 2008 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Program Management

Evolution of the Owner’s Role in Program Management - Activity: Project Management (#9 in the series Evolution of the Owner’s Role in Program Management)
By Robert Prieto

Traditional Owner Role:

Extensive ongoing involvement in the oversight and direction of various third party contractors engaged to execute specific project elements. Heavily involved in day to day management of individual project elements.

Owner Role Under Program Management:

Owner’s project management role migrates to one more focused on strategic and executive guidance of many activities previously directly managed. Owner’s project managers assess overall progress, robustness of execution managed by the Program Manager, emerging risks and Program Manager’s strategies to address, and authorize releases as appropriate from shared contingency pools.

Program Manager’s Role Under Program Management:

Program Manager provides direct management of all projects and program activities within his scope of work. Project management activities are accomplished with a heavy emphasis or identifying opportunities for multi-project sharing and leveraging of resources. Management reporting is consolidated on a programmatic basis and provides both project performance as well as programmatic views.

Project and programmatic reviews is conducted on a scheduled basis with both individual Owner project managers as well as Owner functional leadership.

Robert Prieto, Senior Vice President

Robert Prieto is senior vice president for Fluor, where he leads strategy for Fluor’s Industrial and Infrastructure group. Mr. Prieto focuses on the development and delivery of large, complex projects worldwide.

Prior to joining Fluor, Bob served as chairman of Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. As head of PB’s board of directors, he was responsible for overseeing management performance, establishing top-level policies, and ensuring the firm’s continued long term success.

He is a member of the executive committee of the National Center for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, a member of the board of directors of the Business Council on International Understanding, a member of the board of the Civil Engineering Forum for Innovation, and co-founder and member of the board of the Disaster Resource Network. He currently serves on the National Research Council’s committee framing the challenges on Critical Infrastructure Systems. Until 2006 he served as one of three U.S. presidential appointees to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council (ABAC) and served as chairman of the Engineering and Construction Governors of The World Economic Forum and co-chair of the infrastructure task force formed after September 11th by the New York City Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the board of trustees of Polytechnic University of New York, and was previously selected as alumni of the year by its New York Chapter.

He has had an executive sponsorship role in the World Trade Center Transportation Hub; West Coast Rail Modernization; Train Protection and Warning System; Level 3 Communications Long Haul Network and Superconducting Super Collider.

Prieto holds a master of science in nuclear engineering from Polytechnic University of New York and a bachelor of science in nuclear engineering from New York University.

Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) provides services on a global basis in the fields of engineering, procurement, construction, operations, maintenance and project management. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Fluor is a FORTUNE 500 company with revenues of $14.1 billion in 2006. For more information, visit www.fluor.com.

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