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Consulting OverviewIs your company sailing with supreme confidence, like the Titanic, into oblivion by taking undue risk? Or is it so terrified about the risk of icebergs that it is barely moving forward? If it is like most companies, parts of it are...
Discover why professionals are choosing XER Reader to manage, share, and optimize their project data with ease.Project schedulers often spend a significant amount of time each day generating individual PDF reports for various team members. Beyond the...
A line on a [[bar chart]] that represents the timing and duration of an activity.
Budget & Cost Loading...
It can be defined, generally, as a sum of money that has been allocated for a particular prupose, or event. A budget represents an approved estimate for either the entire project or for a particular schedule [[activity]] or work structure breakdown c...
Schedule Maintenance related issues:
Schedule Usage related issues:
Schedule Levels... When producing programmes for a project, I use the following levels of programmes: LEVEL 1 : Project Management overview schedule/programme, by Project Phase. LEVEL 2 : Area or Process/Utility Unit schedule/programme, by Project Ph...
Activity Codes / Coding Systems One objective in many construction planning efforts is to define the plan within the constraints of a universal coding system for identifying activities. Each activity defined for a project would be identified by a pre...
Activity Durations... In most scheduling procedures, each work activity has an associated time duration. These durations are used extensively in preparing a schedule. All formal scheduling procedures rely upon estimates of the durations of the variou...
Schedule Construction related issues:
Introduction The claiming and granting of extensions of time in large infrastructure projects is often a complicated and fractious process. One common reason for this is the issue of concurrent delay. A concurrent delay occurs when two or more causes...
Planning Terms
A parameter of [[Earned Value Analysis]]. The difference between the [[Budgeted Cost]] of work carried out and the budgeted cost of work planned. The difference between the planned performance and actual performance. The difference between identical ...
Principles of Construction Often known as "Colcrete" piling, which is a type of trade name. Usually replaced by diaphragm walling methods.Essentially typical bored piles, or down-the-hold bored piles, are constructed with a spacing such that each pil...
A unique code, usually alpha-numeric, that identifies each activity in a project programme or schedule.
A graphical chart on which activities are represented as bars drawn against a common time scale. Typically a date scale is drawn across the top of the page and a list of activities down the left hand side of the page. Activity timing and durations ar...
A list of the time intervals during which activities can be worked and / or resources used. Typical data includes working days/non-working days, start and finish times for work-shifts, weekends, holiday periods and extra workdays. Each activity and/o...