Project Management
Name a well-known company that uses a project manager?
All well-known companies?
We are the New Orleans District; name the division we belong to
What is Mississippi Valley Division?
The largest river in the US by volume discharged.
What is the Mississippi River?
The federal department that is the parent agency to USACE.
What is the Department of Defense?
What is the act of planning, organizing, and managing a project in order to achieve a predefined goal or outcome?
The 3 Primary Missions of USACE - MVN
What is FRM + CSRM, Navigation, and Ecosystem restoration?
The branch of science concerned with the conveyance of liquids through pipes and channels.
What is hydraulics?
The location of the Engineering Research and Development Center headquarters.
What is Vicksburg?
State the 5 Project Management Essentials
What is Budget, Schedule, Scope, Communication, Cross-Functional Collaboration?
The two types of Navigation previously mentioned
What is Dredging, and Navigation Locks?
An important part of all models that the project team helps the modelers come up with.
What are assumptions?
The type of gate that closes the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway on the Lake Borgne Storm Surge Barrier.
What is a sector gate?
1. What is being able to Communicate effectively?
2. What is communication?
1 & 2 are both acceptable.
3 Types of Ecosystem Restoration
What is Shoreline restoration, Habitat Restoration, and invasive species control?
What is SLR, water has a constant density?
An example of an invasive species that USACE has to manage.
The role of a PM at USACE
What is planning, scheduling and coordinating the project strategy and construction design, as well as reporting progress and budget matters to necessary parties to help mitigate possible risks.
3 Examples of Projects in process
What is Amite River, Saltwater intrusion, Bonnet Carre Spillway monitoring.
The flowrate passing New Orleans in the project design flood.
What is 1.25 million cubic feet per second?
A type of structure maintained an operated by USACE that helps ships pass safely through rivers and channels.
What is a lock?