Integrity of a P3 Schedule

Member for

18 years 9 months

Thank you all and Thank you Ron for guiding me to so many ways of checking contractor’s schedule.



This place is really great for people coming all levels of work experience.



Hats off to the guy who started this website.



I wish everyone a winderful day



Thanks



Ilyas

Member for

22 years 10 months

I have spent a lot of time in the last 15 years trying to formalize structure and thoroughness in the schedule analysis process. I presented a paper at the 2002 Primavera Conference on this subject. You can reference this at http://www.ronwinterconsulting.com/rabaseline.htm. Schedule Analyzer software implements all of these ideas. It is described at http://www.ronwinterconsulting.com/sa_main.htm. I hope that this helps. Good luck!

Member for

22 years 5 months

you can check Ron Winters paper on how to check the contractor’s schedule/programme.



HTH...

Member for

19 years 5 months

The best guide to determining the integrity of a schedule is your own practical experience. If you know how long things generally take and how much it generally costs then that will give you a reasonable idea as to whether the schedule is realistic, programmed well and being executed in an orderly manner.



James

Member for

22 years 8 months

A good place to start is the P3 Schedule Report.



Click the schedule button on the toolbar, and select "constraints" "open ends" and "out of sequence"



Few constraints, no open ends, not much out of sequence progress usually indicates a good schedule.



You can then start looking at resource assignments.





Cheers,

Brennan

Member for

18 years 9 months

Thanks for the answer, I appreciate that. But is there a way of analysing a schedule or any other tools in P3 and finding out whether the integrity of the schedule is ensured or not by the contractor.



thank you



ilyas

Member for

19 years 5 months

By interrogation! Asking the right questions and working out where they worked out their estimates. The contractor may answer - we guessed (made an approximation etc)! What are you going to do then? They may have guessed right though! So basically you have to make your checks by questioning other people.



I hope that helps.