ASLA SKILL | ED: Project Management for Landscape Architects
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As a project manager, you have a million things to keep track of at any given stage. Effective project management keeps you focused on each step of the way, from beginning to end. Through this course series, you will learn how to develop core project management plan components to bring you, your clients, and the project team into alignment on resources, milestones, and budget.
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Contains 4 Component(s), Includes Credits
Effective project management planning helps not only your projects succeed, but your business too. In this session, you'll learn the core project management plan components to guide you through your project from beginning to end - from the initial major elements and concepts of a plan to how to use those to further develop and administer a plan that meets your client's needs.
Effective project management planning helps not only your projects succeed, but your business too. In this session, you'll learn the core project management plan components to guide you through your project from beginning to end - from the initial major elements and concepts of a plan to how to use those to further develop and administer a plan that meets your client's needs.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the importance of a project management plan.
- Understand the three components needed to begin a project management plan.
- Identify what resources are available to inform project scope.
- Identify several frameworks for organizing scope.
Christine E. Pearson, ASLA
Director of Quality Management
Browning Day
Christine E. Pearson, PLA, ASLA is Director of Quality Management at Browning Day. Throughout Christine Pearson’s 30 years in landscape architecture, she has emerged as a Jill-of- all-trades in the pursuit of designing for a better tomorrow. Her designs are seamlessly integrated within their existing urban fabric while emphasizing the principles of accessibility, inclusivity and safety. Christine’s favorite part of landscape architecture is the complexity and variety of work that demands creative and strategic agility. Her favorite projects are those that create memory-making venues for generations to come.
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Contains 4 Component(s), Includes Credits
This session outlines methods for developing a design fee and how to ensure you are sticking to that budget. It is imperative that you have all the necessary information before you agree to a fee and schedule. This session will highlight questions to ask while developing a project scope and internal schedule.
This session outlines methods for developing a design fee and how to ensure you are sticking to that budget. It is imperative that you have all the necessary information before you agree to a fee and schedule. This session will highlight questions to ask while developing a project scope and internal schedule.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore guiding questions to help scope a project and prepare an internal schedule.
- Discover methods of developing internal milestones and ensuring the team meets them.
- Gain a greater understanding of tracking project spending and forecasting project cost at completion.
- Develop an internal schedule that reflects client expectations, necessary coordination and internal processes.
Clarence Lacy
Project Director
RIOS
Clarence Lacy is a Project Director at RIOS. After graduating from University of Toronto, Clarence has worked in Toronto, San Francisco Bay area, and Los Angeles to transform the way we think about cities - using landscape architecture to express inclusively the individuals voices to unify, inspire, and enlighten communities. At RIOS, Clarence co-led the establishment of the Social Impact Initiative – a combination of policy and programming to develop a more inclusive and diverse office culture at RIOS, while emphasizing a more just approach to project work and the firm’s role in the LA community.
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Contains 4 Component(s), Includes Credits
Communication in professional practice requires strategies for one's own internal team and external project partners such as clients, contractors, and consultants. Explore a diverse collection of strategies for clear and effective communication from a founding principal and director of marketing & public art of a landscape architecture firm.
Communication in professional practice requires strategies for one's own internal team and external project partners such as clients, contractors, and consultants. Explore a diverse collection of strategies for clear and effective communication from a founding principal and director of marketing & public art of a landscape architecture firm.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify workflows that promote clear and efficient project communication.
- Learn strategies for driving the design team and client representatives towards common goals.
- Learn how to leverage project communications towards the development of long term relationships.
- Develop project communication pathways that double as opportunities for mentorship and professional growth within the design team.
L. Irene Compadre, ASLA
Founding Principal & Design Director
Arbolope Studio
L. Irene Compadre, PLA is the Founding Principal & Design Director of Arbolope Studio, an award-winning Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Public Art practice based in St. Louis, MO. An experimental firm that prioritizes high-quality design, ecological resillience, and social-equity; Arbolope’s work ranges from intimate public spaces such as Strauss Park in St. Louis, to large scale masterplans including for the Universidad Technical in Loja, Ecuador and the Jefferson City Botanical Garden in Missouri's capital city. Irene holds a MLA from Washington University in St. Louis where she now teaches in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
Michael Powell
Director of Marketing & Public Art
Arbolope Studio
Michael Powell is the Director of Marketing & Public Art for Arbolope Studio, a landscape architecture, urban design, and public art firm based in St. Louis, MO. In addition to firm marketing, Powell also leads the studio's wayfinding, branding, and public art projects. Powell has previously taught as a member of the faculty at Webster University, University of California in Santa Barbara, and Washington University in St. Louis.
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Contains 2 Component(s)
How many tabs do you have open just for communication? The options are seemingly endless: email, Slack, WhatsApp, texting, Zoom, phone calls, and more! We’ll give you step-by-step advice on how to streamline your various virtual communication channels to work more effectively with your team and clients.
How many tabs do you have open just for communication? The options are seemingly endless: email, Slack, WhatsApp, texting, Zoom, phone calls, and more! We’ll give you step-by-step advice on how to streamline your various virtual communication channels to work more effectively with your team and clients.
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Contains 2 Component(s)
So many apps, so little time. This session is all about which apps that can help you in big ways. Now more than ever you need to rely on apps and solutions that will transform the way you work, juggling family and tasks, and managing your time and mental space.
So many apps, so little time. This session is all about which apps that can help you in big ways. Now more than ever you need to rely on apps and solutions that will transform the way you work, juggling family and tasks, and managing your time and mental space.
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Contains 2 Component(s)
How many emails do you get in one day? 100? 500? Don’t let your email manage you. Learn how you can organize your inbox, set rules, and manage your inbox in a way that allows for effective time management even when addressing your hundreds of emails.
How many emails do you get in one day? 100? 500? Don’t let your email manage you. Learn how you can organize your inbox, set rules, and manage your inbox in a way that allows for effective time management even when addressing your hundreds of emails.
