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PROJECT MANAGEMENT 2.0 AN INTRODUCTION BY GLENN HOVERMALE
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he marine representative role is an essential part of any submarine cable project. Representatives are a necessity for all operational phases, including marine survey, cableship loading, system installation, commissioning and acceptance, burial assessment surveys and cable repairs. The primary services that marine representatives provide include oversight of documentation and daily reporting. Typically, representatives rely on some form of template for daily reporting (Daily Progress Report (DPR)), and those reports are provided to customers and purchasers via email through a distribution list of pertinent individuals. Once a representative’s daily report is submitted via
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email, there is little traceability or tractability of that unique report as it relates to other reports or to the project at large. If a customer wants to review a DPR from a date in the past, it will require scrolling through email to find the specific date. If a customer wants to review a specific DPR that relates to a specific incident, it requires scrolling through the body of past reports to find the specific report. Likewise, there isn’t a method for qualifying or quantifying the effort put forth by an individual marine representative. WFN Strategies has created a solution to this problem, Project Management 2.0, which is a real-time, GISbased implementation service that