AEC Project Management - Time Management

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Time is one of a project manager’s most limited resources, and how it is allocated directly affects project performance, team effectiveness, and client service. This course explores practical strategies for managing time as a strategic project resource rather than simply a matter of personal productivity. Learners will examine prioritization, daily workflow planning, focused work, meeting management, interruptions, communication demands, time and productivity monitoring, workload capacity, and multi-project time management. The course emphasizes distinguishing importance from urgency, protecting time for high-value activities, communicating priorities clearly, maintaining responsiveness without sacrificing focus, and using time and utilization data to identify inefficiencies and capacity concerns. Learners will also explore how sustainable time management practices support timely decisions, schedule adherence, budget performance, client satisfaction, team wellbeing, and long-term project management effectiveness.

Objectives SME

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Explain why time management is a core project management responsibility and describe how a project manager's use of time affects project, team, and client outcomes
Apply structured prioritization techniques to balance competing client, team, and project demands based on importance, urgency, and potential consequences
Develop a daily workflow that protects time for high-priority activities while managing digital communication and allowing appropriate flexibility for changing project demands
Apply effective meeting management practices to improve decision-making, accountability, and the productive use of project team time
Identify strategies for managing interruptions, digital communication, and competing demands while maintaining appropriate accessibility and responsiveness
Apply communication practices that support timely information flow and stakeholder alignment without unnecessarily consuming project management time
Analyze personal and team time-use and productivity data to identify inefficiencies, workload imbalances, and opportunities to reallocate effort
Recognize common time-management pitfalls and explain how sustainable time management practices support schedule performance, budget control, client satisfaction, and long-term project management effectiveness

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: Alfredo Cely, P.E., MSEM

Alfredo is a Civil Engineer that has managed Transportation, Land Development, Water Resources and Aviation projects from planning to construction for the past 14 years. Most recently his consulting work has focused on assisting state and local agencies in improving the safety of our transportation network. He has been responsible for several multi-modal transportation projects in the Tampa Bay Area, throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is a licensed Civil Engineer in Florida, North Carolina, and Ecuador.

At the University of South Florida, Alfredo serves as an instructor for the Transportation sections of the P.E. Preparation Courses hosted by the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Student Chapter. Alfredo is a member of ASCE’s Street and Highway Operations Committee and is an associate member of the Aviation Planning and Operations Committee. At the national level, Alfredo helps several of the Transportation Research Board Committees and is currently involved in the following committees: Low Volume Roads; Hydrology, Hydraulics and Water Quality; Pedestrian Safety; and Bicycle Transportation.

Alfredo served as the Chair of the local ASCE Transportation and Development Institute group during its first two years (2012-2014). The Florida West Coast Chapter of the ASCE has recognized Alfredo’s commitment to the profession and our community honoring him with the Young Engineer of the Year Award in 2014. As part of his involvement with the local engineering community, Alfredo currently serves as a Board Member of the Florida West Coast Branch for ASCE.