t was clear from the offset that a different strategy would need to be developed in Saudi Arabia to bring 21 Projects in align with Western Standards and getting the Project online. After screening all the Schedules I was able to identify 10 Disciplines that almost all the Schedules were missing and develop a scoring mechanism to score each Schedule. A training seminar was then held with Contractors, Supervisor Consultants and Municipality to train them on Planning Best Practices and the new process that I was to implement.

The focus was to have all Contractors to resubmit their Schedules and incorporate the 10 Disciplines and once they achieve a quality score of above 7.5/10, they are then ready for a technical review. The point of the technical review was to save time and flush out all anomalies and start developing the true critical path and find all potential opportunities but at the same time have the Contractors and Supervisor Consultants buy in to what I was demonstrating. This process saved up to 42% of delays that the Contractors were applying for in Extension of Time. After they resubmitted their Schedules after the technical reviews, I'd have one more internal review and accept the schedules and re-baseline their project with my recommendation to the Ministry of Finance of duration of Extension of Time. This was then handed back over to the Supervisor Consultant, having trained them in both Quality and Technical Planning for them to continue my work.

Once quality schedules were being produced I was then able to create a database for the PMIS Manager. The database was designed so that all information could be extracted from Primavera P6 and MSP Microsoft Project and produce dashboards for all levels ranging from the Mayor of Riyadh to PMU/PMO/Quarterly Reports but all from the same Database but with unique drill downs.

Duties

•   Roll out Primavera P6 Pilots

•   Develop Planning Processes for existing and new projects (Defining new contracts in KSA)

•   Implementing Best Practice Planning Philosophy to ensure accurate reporting

•   Measuring Impact that commercial events have on the baseline programme

•   Performing forensic analysis to identify risks & opportunities within the programme. The key components

  considered where keys dates, durations, logic, constraints, lag & programme interfaces.

•   Training Planners and Engineers

•   Integrate Programme into PMIS

•   Created Dashboards using database extractions from Planning Software and Power BI

•   Presenting a series of planning workshops to the internal & external PM’s to achieve total buy in to the

  contract programmes, demonstrating the findings in the What If? Analysis & Planning Best Practice Reports.