7-days calendar vs. resource loaded schedule
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Bo JohnsenMember for 20 years 7 months
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Many Owners/Clients want to have a WBS-programme submitted in calendar days, i.e. 7-days calendar. At the same time they also want a resource loaded schedule, not just names of resources, but also number of units (workers).
Doesn’t that defeat the object if the Contractor only works 5 or 6 days a week? By adding in resources the manhours will be higher than what is actually worked on site and the schedule can’t really be used for tracking of manhours - unless the Contractor have a seperate, identical schedule in working days (i.e. 5 or 6 days week in this case).
How is it possible to satisfy the Owner’s requirement and at the same time utilizing this schedule for manhours tracking purposes being the Contractor?
rgds,
Bo
Doesn’t that defeat the object if the Contractor only works 5 or 6 days a week? By adding in resources the manhours will be higher than what is actually worked on site and the schedule can’t really be used for tracking of manhours - unless the Contractor have a seperate, identical schedule in working days (i.e. 5 or 6 days week in this case).
How is it possible to satisfy the Owner’s requirement and at the same time utilizing this schedule for manhours tracking purposes being the Contractor?
rgds,
Bo
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Oldest first- 0James Griffiths ·Hi Bo,
I assume that you do not normally provide a resource-loaded programme? If this is the case, then the client’s request for a resource-loaded programme will give him the abiity to "play" with the programme in order to determine the various effects of adding or removing resources (using the same total value of hours), changing the number of working-days-per-week etc. etc. This can only be done if you have the resource loading (hours-per-activity). A simple example: If you have a 30-day activity, employing 10 people at 100% level of effort, then they can see that, mathematically, the duration of that activity could be 15 days if they employed 20 people - but this would affect the project’s cash-flow profile.
If the contract has already been signed, then it is rather unfair of the client to ask for a resource-loaded programme. If he has access to this data, then he can start interfering even more than usual, by offering his very helpful "advice".
HTH.
James.
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