About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. Architecture and Engineering (A/E) projects require collaboration to reach a successful end result. As the design lead, your firm may be responsible for much more than just your own work. Whether those responsibilities are spelled out in

About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. Architecture and Engineering (A/E) project management can feel like juggling 15 balls at a time. You check one thing off the list and 14 more immediately require your attention. Then, as soon as one thing gets off course, everything else

About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. Due to the inherently creative nature of architecture or engineering (A/E) work, it can be difficult to estimate time or labor for one or several parts of a project. To make things more difficult, plan vs. actual is sometimes not tracked

About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. As an Architecture or Engineering (A/E) firm, your focus is typically something like creating amazing buildings, environments, and solutions for your clients. It can be difficult to justify energy spent on the bigger picture of the busin

About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. We talk about Architecture and Engineering (A/E) project management a lot here on the Planifi blog. However, there’s more pieces to the puzzle when it comes to running a successful A/E business. There’s, of course, design services. Often

About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. Architecture/Engineering (A/E) project management is a lot like driving at night. Functioning headlights are essential to safe driving, but you also need to pay attention to what’s ahead of you to make it home safely. Project Managers ne

About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. Most architects and engineers go into their respective fields, not for money or fame, but because they love the practice of architecture or engineering. It’s an incredible feat to create a new design from the ground up and to ensure ever

About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. The outcome of any architecture or engineering (A/E) project relies upon the leadership skills of the Project Manager. Expert project leadership contributes to successful A/E projects like few other factors. Project-time management, budg

About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. As my son was growing up, I coached his little league baseball teams, and even went to the Little League World Series twice. I learned a great deal from coaching, or should I say from teaching these young people about baseball, preparat

About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. Architecture and Engineering (A/E) firms that establish and demonstrate project management as a strategic priority for their firm consistently win more work on design-build projects. The traditional approach for construction projects

Updated: Apr 19, 2020 About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. Current market data suggests that the average architecture/engineering (A/E) firm spends ~5% of net revenues on marketing, sales, and business development. Flights, hotels, meetings, association memberships, RFP r

About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. One of the top concerns of Architecture and Engineering (A/E) firm leadership today is around commoditization of core services. The idea is that design services offered by competing firms are largely comparable. Perhaps one firm is a bit

About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. I’ve spent over 25 years in architecture and engineering (A/E) project management. Over the years, I’ve been an A/E project manager and an owner’s rep, and have managed the project management practice at a 300-person firm. Throughout tha

About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. If you’re part of an Architecture or Engineering (A/E) firm leadership team, we need to talk for a second. Whether you want to or not, you own the critical responsibility of developing your firm’s next generation of leaders and project m

About the author: Don Archibeque is a Project Executive with Planifi, bringing more than 25 years of experience in construction and A/E (architecture and engineering) Project Management, as well as associated professional managerial services. Traditional A/E Project Management Traditional project management takes a step-by-step approach to delivering Architecture and Engineering (A/E) projects. The project goes through initiation, planning, execution, and monitoring, then str