Topic: Disputes, Claims, Variations, and Arbitration.
Learning outcomes
1. Differentiate methods of project negotiation, conflict management, and stakeholder engagement across projects consisting of differing technology standards and asset lifecycles.
2. Explain and apply methods of identifying and reconciling inconsistent and conflicting objectives and drivers that develop, maintain, mange relationships and communication with key stakeholders.
3. Explain the consequences of project delays, disruptions, and changes to planned activities and the methods for claims variations, liquidated damages, contract entitlements, and arbitration.
4. Evaluate project management tools that help avoid or provide conflict resolution via negotiated solutions.
The objective of this week's topic is to make sure you have an appreciation of the Role of the Project Manager in Commercial Negotiation.
Try to ask yourself the questions that were in the slides in the lecture:-
1. What is the Consequence of Disputes, Claims, Variations, and Arbitration?
2. How can we Avoid Disputes, Claims, Variations, and Arbitration?
3. What happens if we don't Avoid Disputes, Claims, Variations, and Arbitration?
Walker & Walker (2015) discuss a their Study Approachwhat are your thoughts regarding:
4. Does the World View of the Researchers Matter?
5. Has the research been adequately Validated?
Walker & Walker (2015) then in Chapter 5 discuss Data and Information resources that they accessed in undertaking the research what are your thoughts regarding:
6. Are the sources adequate for the researchers?
7. Are they adequate for us and our topic of Commercial Negotiation?
S.O. Cheung & and P. T. Chow in 2011consider the topic of Withdrawal in Construction Project Dispute Negotiation;what are your thoughts regarding:
8. Are the assumptions in Cheung & Chow's research and hypotheses reasonable?
9. Are the results of the true and false Hypotheses believable in your experience?
In conclusion to this week:
10. Do the ideas in Chapter 5 help in structuring your thoughts around Commercial Project Negotiation?
11. How does this week's topic relate to the previous weeks topics?
12. How relevant are the thoughts of Alfredson&Cungu from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in the context of this chapter? Or are we looking at completely different ideas?