Career Issues---as a Planner
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Planning is for Site / Build
leanrning plannig from books and office should not be the whole course.
if you could , work on site most of the time, observe the build process yourself. it will help you next time around when you develope a programme.
best of luck
shahzad
Thanx all for your support
Hi Roland
You can post anything you like on the forum so long as it complies with the rules.
Best regards
Mike Testro
Hey there,
I guess you might wanna start by reading some books related to the subject. But most importantly after you read a bit, come back to the forum and research specific subjects, youll get tips/tricks/hints that no book will give you in the sense that it will help you learn what works and what doesnt work, the alternatives . This will hopefully get you going in the right direction.
Just message me and ill give you some book names, Im not sure if I am allowed to post book names here
Hi Shareef
You are not alone.
You have described the working conditions of a very large number of PP members around the world.
Its a bit like Cassandra - the mad daughter of Priam King of Troy when the Greeks invaded - she made accurate prophecies but she was never believed until it was too late.
As for getting into delay analysis you are starting from the right point in that you understand the reasons why delays are caused.
Why not start with your current project - when you have done all the progress reporting etc then practice delay analysis for real.
Save a file and start to put in the bottlenecks and problems that are being encountered and impact the likely completion date.
You can earn respect by doing this in your own time.
When you have some results show them to your upline manager and say "Look Boss I have been fiddling around with this - what do you think?"
Have some scenarios ready as to how the delay can be reduced (or "mitigated" in EoT speak)
If you do give it a try let me know how you get on.
Finally there is no course that I know of that teaches basic planning - let alone delay analysis.
Best regards
Mike Testro.