Project Management Oversight (PMO) Lessons Learned

PURPOSE     5/2/2009
The purpose of this site is to increase the effectiveness of transit capital expenditures through a sharing of experience and associated lessons learned on major capital transit projects.

This collection of Lessons Learned Reports shares lessons learned at the various phases of the New Starts projects which can be usefully applied to other projects. The lessons pertain to engineering and project management activities and are classified into the relevant New Starts phases and categories.

BACKGROUND
The lessons learned program was developed with the assistance of Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Project Management Oversight Program (PMOP) contractors, transit properties and FTA regional engineers. The objective of Project Management Oversight is to assist FTA in the monitoring of a grantee's project development and implementation. The focus of PMO services is determine if a project is on time, within budget, in conformance with the grantee's approved plans and specifications, and is efficiently and effectively implemented. The lessons learned program is an integral part of the PMOP.

The phases include:

• Pre-PE or Alternative Analysis
• Preliminary Engineering
• Final Design
• Construction and Revenue Operations.

 The categories are:

• Cost
• Management
• Schedule and
• Scope