This Meeting is Intended for Facility Professionals Only.

Interested in Giving a Presentation? Please contact the IFMA Greater Seattle Chapter Office.

About the Event:

Facility managers play a major role in all aspects of project management beginning with planning, scoping, scheduling, and evaluating. Project planning and management are core skills in FM. The skills are particularly important because of the wide range of projects assigned to the FM organization. Projects vary in scope, complexity, duration, and financial risk. Facility managers’ project roles involve planning organizing, delegating, monitoring, and controlling projects and ensuring that the interests of the FM organization and its customers are represented throughout the life-cycle of a project. However, a facility manager’s role may vary depending on the specifics of the project and his or her capabilities and availability.

Topics may include:

• Describe the common projects in facility management, the role of the facility manager and project manager in projects, and the different project management processes and models.

• Explain the inputs, processes, and outputs related to:  

• The Initiate phase of a project.

• The Plan phase of a project.

• Acquiring a team and resources and executing and controlling a project.

• Accepting deliverables, closing contracts and the project and evaluating outcomes.