CPM HOW IS IT CREATED ?

GREATLY SAID AND WRITTEN

regards

deb

Yes absolutely Ashraf,



Everybody knows that, P3/MSP is a great tool to help PLANNING ENGINEER to save significant amount of time. But, like every other software, applications like p3, MSP are just tools; they do not execute the entire job for the PMs. It is unacceptable to expect a computer to manage the project, it just manages the vast amount of data that large projects require to store. Project management software is incapable of “establishing project objectives, define project tasks or dependencies, determine and manage project constraints”.



As the significance of having a proper Statement of Requirement becomes more and more apparent, project management software should consciously take a secondary role in a project system since their power can only be exploited when the project is defined correctly.



Computers can only help producing wrong plans faster, instead of understanding the critical path.



A Planning Engineer is not only a BUTTON PUSHER; but he is the brain of PM on the basis of which the entire project team works (say 1000’s of workforce).



Activities on critical path doesn’t reflect the valued activities in terms of cost, but is reflects only the duration required. It might be the case, wherein TOWER CRANE may remain idle, as it is having float, whereas small water tank construction is on the critical time during a taken period of time. So, ultimately, activities should be dictated by the PM/CM, and planning engineer should help these two guys, to take the project profit margin higher to the extent possible.



Hope I am clear.



Cheers,



Raviraj A Bhedase

Critical Path in a plan at the begining are usually identified and dictated by experienced team members, after that as the project progresses the critical path is dictated by the turn of events.



Most often as an irony since lots of the focus and effort is diverted to activities on the critical path they no longer remain critical.