TIME TAKEN FOR SCHEDULING

Oh One Last Thing the key to a successful baseline schedule is Know your Specifications.....Know your Specifications....Know your Specifications coz when things go tough that is what we go after and not assumptions made. Moreover, specifications will indicate the windows of operation, shutdown period if any, testing process and quality control, submittals to be made and there approval durations, milestone and other criteria specially for the particular project. Therefore in one nut shell know your specs prior to start laying your hands on the activities and durations.

Suresh

Yeah I agree with Kris. Selling your schedule and getting the commitment of the Team members is very important coz as planners we can go through the sequence of work on a overall picture but to understand the scope of work in detail and the resource needed to build the work depends solely on the knowledge of the people who are going to build the work. so take all comments and review them coz each and everyone in the team who builds one part of the work knows only there part of the work but it is the scheduler who hears all the parts completes the puzzle. Additionally, How many times we would have heard the guys who build the work out there complain that the schedule is not realistic and when there point gets proven then the baseline schedule will be a mere wall paper attractive but not purposeful.

Adios Planners,

Suresh

Kris,



Believe the staffs are well experienced and knowledgeable. They must be able to guide you with their knowledge which they earned through their past working experiences, unless your company hire all the freshies to do the work.



If the engineers do not want to guide you, go ho ahead and develop the schedule based on your experience and once completed print it and discuss with them. Let them review the schedule, get the feedback and make a changes accordingly before submission.



Regards.

Hi Guys,



For 1000 activities it may take more than 5-6 days depending on repetiveness of each activity. ( Ex : if you are repeating a set of 200 activities for 5 types of phases than it just a copy and paste method)

If it totally ONE whole 1000 activity project, you’ll need a month or so to get all the details and input them in schedule to retain the logic and practicality.



the site team shall have a lot of details of material deliveries and other infos. please refer to them.

Sometimes it’s up to the planner to schedule a activity’s duration based on his own judgement.



Hope that’s help



regards,

ganesan

Hi,



As Bill and Shahzad mentioned. Let your team members involve in schedule development. Get their commitment and discuss on productivity rates to prepare a realistic workable schedule.



Let they understand the work sequences when you work on detail schedule. This will help the team members especially when you start to update the schedule.



Also it will make your life easy. Not to crack your head on your own and let the team members to feel the pressure too.



Remember the motto: TOGETHER WE EXCEL or TOGETHER WE FAIL.



Regards.

Hi kris



Your schedule of 1000 activities with fully resource and cost loaded will take at least five to six days.



This will also depends upon nature of activities associated with the project



As regards cooperation of your team memebers, sure , without their involvement it is not possible to prepare, execute and monitor any schedule.

Hi kris



Your schedule of 1000 activities with fully resource and cost loaded will take at least five to six days.



This also depends upon nature of activities associated with the project



As regards cooperation of your team memebers, sure , without their involvement it is not possible to prepare, excute and monitor any schedule.

That a nice one Bill and I totally agree with you.



Sunil

I agree Bill’s word.

A "successful" schedule is not the effort of scheduler, it’s an effort of the whole team.