Project Engineer

1. Project: What & How
Free Lunch and Talk
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What Project is
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Running A Project
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Ron Liu
Nov, 2008

2. Project
Stakeholder, Shareholder Government
Law, Regulation
Vendors
Sponsor, Customers Supply Chain
Subcontractor
Project Manager

3. October 20, 1997 Development and operation rights agreement signed with Taipei City
government.
January 13, 1998 Ground-breaking ceremony.
August 10, 1998 Construction license awarded for 101 stories.
April 13, 1999 Design change to 509.2 m height approved by
Taipei City government.
June 7, 2000 First tower column erected.
June 13, 2001 Taipei 101 Mall topped out.
March 31, 2002 5 workers killed caused by a 6.8 earthquake.
Construction was halted.
May 13, 2003 Taipei 101 Mall obtains occupancy permit.
July 1, 2003 Taipei 101 Tower roof completed.
October 17, 2003 Pinnacle placed.
November 14, 2003 Taipei 101 Mall opens.
April 15, 2004 Council on Tall Buildings and
Urban Habitat (CTBUH) certifies
Taipei 101 as
world's tallest building.
November 12, 2004 Tower obtains occupancy
permit.
December 31, 2004 Tower opens to the public.
January 1, 2005 First fireworks show begins at midnight for
New Year's Eve activity.
Companies:
- Architect: C.Y. Lee & Partners
- Contractor: KTRT Joint Venture
- Management: Urban Retail Properties Company

4. Looking into Other Industry
Family trip
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Company outing
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Microsoft Software
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Linux, open source society
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Auto maker
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HSR
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Taiwan Lottery
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Highway ETS
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IDF
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5. Mindsets: Running A Project
Object Oriented Do thing right in effective way
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Ownership Problem Solver
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Alternatives Raise your hand ASAP
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Opportunity Team player
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Constraints Leader and Follower
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Uncertainty Local optimization vs System
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thinking
Risk 無常
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Plan for future
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Convergent
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Finding the path
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Positive Open mind
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● Human being, Lesson Learn

6. Resources, Constraints

7. Estimate, Schedule
Calculate, simulation Guess
cost, time, and risks
on the right track
Murphy's law
Estimate: Confidence level, probability
Anxiety, like or dislike, deffensive
Why Schedule, only a tool
1. Outside: Commitment how good a estimate is
UPS or FedEx based on what info, spec, requirement
2. Inside: Dependence, change Flexibility
3. WBS, track

9. Surgical team
A perfect team
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Dynamically up
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Trust: If your
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brain surgeon
told you the op-
eration you need
takes five
hours, would you
pressure him to
do it in three?

10. Communication/Culture
What we behave, view of Westerner
task relationship
monochronic polychronic
Say what you do low context
high context Do what you say
Say NO
deductive 演繹
Inductive
歸納 risk taking
risk avoiding
bottom up
top-
down

11. Team Communication

12. Hot, Flat, Crowd World
Where we are