Description
Ignoring the time management portion of projects leads to delays, busts budgets, and kills profits.Just as a bid is an estimate of the costs needed to construct a project, the schedule is an estimate of the time needed to construct a project. The first step of properly managing your project time is planning your project and then working your plan. In order to manage your project using the project schedule, you will need to ensure that the project schedule represents your construction plan. Properly managing your project time also includes managing project risks, which includes managing added work, changes to the project, and dealing with unanticipated events. The benefits of this timely topic includes an experienced instructor who can provide the perspective of both the contractor, who is typically responsible for developing and updating the project schedule, and the owner, who is typically responsible with reviewing and accepting the project schedule and evaluating requests for additional time. We will also discuss how project schedules are used and misused to support a party’s position.
Date: 2019-12-03 Start Time: End Time:
Learning Objectives
Construction Scheduling Basics
• What Is a Schedule?
• Why Are Schedules Necessary?
• Who Is the Scheduler?
• Different Scheduling Techniques
• Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling
Essential CPM Scheduling Information
• Data Date; Durations
• Logic Relationships
• Calendars; Activity Dates
• Forward and Backward Pass
• Float – Total Float, Free Float, and Negative Float
• What Is the Critical Path?
• Constraints; Cost and Resource Loading
How to Build a Project Schedule
• What Is the Baseline Schedule?
• Planning vs. Scheduling
• Development: Top-Down or Bottom-up
• Sequencing; Durations
• Coordination; Recommendations
Updating the Project Schedule
• Why Is the Project Schedule Updated?
• How to Update the Schedule?
• Progress vs. Revisions; Making Changes
• Revised Schedules; Recovery Schedules
• Recommendations
Time Extension Requests
• Using the Project Schedule to Demonstrate Entitlement to Additional Time
• Time Impact Analysis
• Preparing and Evaluating a Request for Additional Time
Scheduling Best Practices and Abuses
• The Project Schedule Is Project Management Tool
• As-Built Logic Changes
• Misused Scheduling Software Features
• Gaming the Schedule
ENG ,Additional credit may be available upon request. Contact Lorman at 866-352-9540 for further information.
Bill Haydt, Esq.-Trauner Consulting Services, Inc.
