Assembling a Collaborative Project Team

Chapter 5The relationship between the project brief and the collaborative team

The brief as the WHY component

The three stages of the project brief

The Project Budget

The stage outputs (or Information Exchanges)

Chapter overview

The briefing process is a core interface between the client and the project team and a successful briefing process is essential if the assembled collaborative team is to be effective at Stage 2 and, more importantly, if the Project Outcomes are to be achieved at project handover. This chapter considers strategic briefing issues and how the briefing process relates to the assembly of the project team.

The Concept Design will be prepared in response to the contents of the Initial Project Brief. In addition ...