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There seems to be no limit to incorrect planning procedures, for as we review some, we find weirder practises! The irony is that there is usually no report or analysis indicating the negative impact of these incorrect practises on project failure. Moreover, most of these practises are as per the instructions of a lead planner, client, and consultants. It gets accepted as a reliable source for status reporting and assisting the project team. In this article we will review, how...
For Resource Loading, the above concepts get used by most Planners. Some planners mix the man-hours with man-day or working hours with productive hours. On certain instances, some planners do not even apply the productive hours in the calculations and assume the resources are productive throughout the day! On the other hand, the project manager / construction managers do like the productive hours and many of them emphasize that the daily/weekly commodity must be planned based on the productive hours. In...
Resource Leveling is one of the concepts that the planners get ask to perform it as part of the resource loading practice. The Process can be complicated and to achieve sensible results, more than one scenario needs to be analysed and demonstrated. Still the outcomes have to be reviewed and presented to the project management team to make the most appropriate decision based on the cost benefits of the scenarios. In this article, we will walk through some of the...
The Schedule development is a complex process which requires many data, calculations, skills and knowledge. Even, if the data is available, most of the Planners fail to accurately develop. Many Planners try to come up with a sensible solution but when they get checked in detail, many inaccuracies are discovered. We did discuss one of them (assigning direct resources to LOE or WBS summary) in a previous article (see it here). In this article, we will discuss another practice which...
If something incorrect gets repeated many times or if many people do it, will not be correct. When it comes to resource loading, many do it incorrectly and they keep repeating it on most Projects or even teaching others it in incorrect ways. They hope it will be considered and accepted as correct if many people do it the same way. One of the incorrect practices is loading resources on to LOE or WBS summary activities. In this post, we will review...
Couple of days ago, a Planner was desperately requesting for help. His planning manager was asked to load resources and send the Schedule to the Client. He did not do it, did not communicate to the team and then 2 days before the due date took leave!! Then few hours before the submission, everybody was pushing the Planner to do the resource loading!!Couple of months prior to this, the same planning manager had rejected our support and training proposal saying...
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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,...
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...