Changes are and will continue to be an inevitable part of the design and construction of most projects. Even the best set of design plans and detailed contract specifications are no guarantee that a particular project will not experience numerous changes. This is particularly true when it involves a large-­‐scale, multi-­‐contract, multi-­‐phased complex project.

As a matter of fact, research shows that most projects, whether public or private, domestic or international, experience schedule slippage and cost overruns due to changes.

The integration of PACO’s Configuration Management methodology, into the project management process, during the planning, design, construction and even the operation and maintenance phases of a complex project will, if implemented correctly, will mitigate the impact that changes will have on project’s schedule and cost performance.

PACO’s Configuration Management methodology consists of a discipline of systematically defining the various baselines, contract deliverables and capturing and storing all project documents, records, written communications, and decisions and their respective relationships with one another as tied to a particular project from initiation through completion, for the purpose of facilitating project progression, accumulating a complete unbiased project history, and providing a means for reexamining all baseline changes, schedule impacts, and cost changes throughout the project lifecycle.

Our Configuration Management methodology can be expressed as five distinct core processes: Baseline Management; Risk Management, Change Management, Cost Management, and Document Management. In practice each of these processes is dependent upon (and linked to) the remaining four.