When it comes to delay analysis, many contractors think it can be done by their project planner. Also, many project planners assume that it as simple as showing a few dates in a table and some bar-charts!Some...
How do you issue your Primavera schedule to the project management team? In PDF or Excel! In both cases, the project team, most likely, will not review and will not provide any feedback or comment! Because, The in both formats are not user friendly and they will not be able to navigate through the WBS and activities. To simulate the Primavera format and grouping style, use our Schedule Format and Grouping file. It is free. Click here...
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Are you a senior planner, lead planner or planning manager? If so, I recommend to read this post and watch the video. As you do know, Schedule Resource Loading is a cumbersome and time consuming process that requires data, calculations and capturing the results into the Schedule. Owing to the following reasons, the situation gets unbearable: On many Projects, due to contractual constraints there is limited time to prepare and submit a resource loaded baseline ScheduleClient requests to load skill sets, commodity,...
Almost in all capital projects, we could see / hear about the following items. These items are some of the most critical requirements for effective project management and successful projects delivery: Resource ManagementBudgeting, etc.S-CurvesPMSEVM / ES and performance analysisProgress ReportsAnalysisScope creep and managementCatch-up / acceleration planRisk Analysisetc. What is the data source to prepare/ develop them?A Resource loaded schedule is the main or one of the main Data Source for all of the above items. As we know, many projects around the...
Resource Leveling is one of the No Go areas for many Planners. We hear them saying: It pushes the dates too far out! This type of excuse is worse than a sin!There could be 2 scenarios for the Resource Leveling: Resource Loading correctly done; In this case, without any mitigation plan, the driver of the finish date will be the Resource availability (Theory of Constraints). Planner must present the resource Loading, Leveling and all the constraints to the team so at...
Most of the requests that we receive to review a project’s Planning system are initiated by the Project Managers. This is after a realization that what gets produced as Progress Reports, is not reflecting the Project’s reality. To review, we require Schedules (BL and updated) and Progress Reports. On most of those Projects, the Planner had used Duration in one shape or another to produce an S-Curve!What is the meaning of an S-Curve Based on Duration? It means the Distribution...