Who's in charge of your Revit project??

Re-posting this as it's valuable information that I've refereed too numerous times. I wrote this back in 2013 and the information is still relevant!

Really! You may have a team of people working on your Revit project but who's in charge? 
Well, the Architect of course.... Wrong! 

Sure the Architect may be in charge of the project but who's managing your Revit project? 
It's not the Architects, he's too busy dealing with client meetings and the contractors etc...

There may be a number of people in the office working on the project but unless there is a defined hierarchy of the Revit project team you may not be working efficiently.

That's what I have found, and have since created a structure for Revit project teams.
 By structuring your team and assigning roles you create efficiency in time and productivity. Structure like this helps people concentrate on their task at hand, it also reduces overlap of work and provides some consistency in project standards, content and responsibility. Kind of takes the pressure of the projerct Architect if the Revit project is managed well.

Here's what I've implemented:

Job Captain

• Lead role in preparing contract documents
• Oversees creation and development of the CD’s
• Design construction details
• Coordination junior members of project team
• Organizes project team coordination and work meetings
• Oversees the project team and work schedule, Team Whip.
• Reviews drawings and identifies changes
• Completes a periodic review of the drawings using the DWG project checklist
• Coordinates other consultants (non-model specific)
• Assists with Tender
• Drawing Organization and Quality control
• Reviews and identifies changes required by the project (may be a result of client or consultant meetings)

BIM Captain

• BIM Modeling only
• Prevent “over modeling” by others
• Manages the “I” in BIM. Information in the families and model elements.
• Defines schedulable information
• Manages family content

Detail Captain

• Coordination off drawing standards between consultants and internal staff
• Manages the CEI drawing standards
• Manages the CEI drawing process
• Works with the Job captain on what details need to be included
• Layout/sequence of sheets 
• Organization of project browser views, legends etc.

Project Support Technician

• Assist with design development
• Assist with contract documents
• Draw marked changes
• Produce detail drawings from sketches
• Research materials and finishes
• Assist with Tender
• Assist with Contract Administration
• Assist with Contract close out

By better defining the roles that are assigned to people we can manage the workflow of a project creating better efficiency.

With the addition of the BIM Captain and the Detail Captain, along with additional definition of the Job Captain, we can better manage the staffing resources assigned to a project. By clearly assigning roles and responsibilities of each team member of a project it reduces confusion over who is responsible for specific tasks.

Multiple roles can be assigned to specific people.

For example a project may only require four key people:

Project Architect

Job Captain

BIM Captain

Detail Captain

The Project Architect will attend meetings, and deal with the client etc…. The Job Captain can work closely with the Project Architect and the consultants as well as overview the development of the CD’s. The BIM Captain develops the Revit Model and works closely with the Detail Captain who manages the development of the Revit  file and organization of the sheets etc. Both the BIM Captain and the Detail Captain take on the role of the Revit Techs.

On smaller projects the BIM Captain and Detail Captain may be assigned to the same person.

On larger projects each role will be assigned to specific individuals.

Depending on the scale and scope of the project the skill level and experience of the person will play a factor on what role will be assigned. This gives less experienced staff the opportunity to experience each these roles.

So far this has been working out pretty good!!

Sc