Collaboration in Engineering Projects: Importance and Benefits

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Learning outcome 6
Lead or participate collaboratively in teams.
What
Engineering projects are able to involve different teams. As an engineer, one is required to
organize and collaborate with all the teams and ensure that tasks are well delivered. The different
engineering tasks in engineering projects are interconnected. This means that the teams must be
able to collaborate in order to deliver the tasks (Berson, & Benner, 2007). The lead engineers are
required to understand the working of the different teams and ensure that they are able to deliver
the tasks. The engineers have to enhance the collaboration between the teams to ensure that delay
of task delivery is not achieved at any given time.
So what
One I was involved in project where I was the lead engineer in a construction project. During the
project delivery, I had teams from the architectural sector, quantity surveying and the
contractor’s teams which were working on the project. During the project delivery, the different
teams had to understand their tasks and expectation in order to ensure tasks are well delivered.
The understanding of the teams and proper communication was important in the project delivery
(In Bairaktarova & In Eodice, 2017). The collaboration in the teams was able to ensure that the
project was delivered without delays and even within the set budget. This was one important
aspect which was achieved due to the collaboration in the teams.
In addition, lack of collaboration in teams has adverse effects on project delivery. I was once
involved in a project where the lead person was not consultative on matter on what was to be

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done. The lead person was able to come up with different instruction on what he needed to be
done and did not respect ant input of the team members. After finishing the tasks, demolition of
different parts was experienced and a lot of time was consumed redoing the tasks. At the end of
the project, the budget was able to surpass the allocated budget.
What else
Collaboration in teams is able to go hand in hand with respect and proper communication. These
aspects are able to ensure that the input of other people within the team are heard and analyzed
(Shina, 2014). This helps to have wide and diverse way of accomplishing the tasks considering
each person had different experience. The respect is able to ensure that all people are able to
contribute to the different matters in the project delivery. In addition the communication ensures
that the different people can seek guidance on different aspects which they have hitch in
accomplishing them.
What now
In my perspective, I will be able to look in enhancing my communication and consultative skills.
This will ensures that I am able to enhance the management of different teams and giving each
person an opportunity to contribute to the issues affecting the project delivery. In addition,
enhancing my management skills will ensure that I am able to collaborate well with the teams.
This will help me in understanding the needs of the teams and thus enhancing the collaboration
between diverse teams.