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Hello Dan

Project Scheduling is the back bone for proper project execution

It is used for:

1. Project controls

2.Resource Projections (plant, labour & materials)

3. Cashflow Projections

4. Knowing the delay of project

5. Knowing the productivity

6. Extension of time & Claim analysis

7. Earned value calculations (Key Performance Indices)

8. Project Feasibilty Studies.

9.Procurement

Hi Shareef,

Thanks! Sometime the brain just shuts down.

I am now back on track

Regards

Dan

Shareef wrote (a very good list!):

"4. Knowing the delay of project"

I'd add:

a.  Identifying schedule variances.

b.  Prioritizing those variances (CP? Amount of float?)

c.  Seeing their impact(s).

d.  Ameliorating their impact(s) (i.e., avoiding delay of the project) by targeting future big drag items on the critical path.

e.  Accelerating the project where there is incentive to do so.

f.  Eliminating, of the millions of possible ways the project could actually go, the ONE that you have actually planned and scheduled!

Fraternally in project management,

Steve the Bajan

Hi Dan,

In addition to the above list, (especially if you are presenting it to non-contruction people) The project schedule or programme is your Road Map, without it you will be lost, because you do not know where you are and where you are going.

Cheers!