I just completed about six months of grueling work, building out a new site, shutting down and moving our entire company home office. It was unlike any other project I have done before. Although I have worked with larger co, and bigger moves, thiswas a complete move! Very dramatic, traumatic, exhausting and lastly fun.
I thought I might share some of the successes, and some failures for others.
First, plan plan plan. Most of the details I had scrutinized, and mulled over for weeks and months. They worked as planed, with little trauma. The things that I thought others had thought through were my biggest problems. For example, my wiring subcontractor I gave updated plans to several times throughout the process. New locations, changes etc. I thought that was enough, but the main technician took few notes on our meetings, and it turned out to be a huge problem. The changes were sporadically done. Some that he could recall others he forgot. His teem of techs rarely worked off the same set of plans, and I don?t think the scope of the project was made clear to them.
I had personally ordered most of the new equipment needed, but left some to the same wiring contractor. I had provided detail layout of patch racks, wire management etc. Till the last week, we were short two relay racks, mounting hardware, and I ended up ordering additional wiring management that has just arrived.
Electricians should be our friends. Throughout the build out, the onsite electrician pointed out a number of problems that the electrical engineer had overlooked. Without a good working relationship with him, the move would have been a complete failure.
Printer plans are a big deal. A good portion of the first week after the move was used up with technicians relocating printers, installing drivers etc. Just a waste of time. Make each department head signoff on a printer plan. I thought my plan was
