Schedule Levels

Hi Sally

There is no industry standard but the generally accepted definitions are:

Level 4 > Task Trades in a cascade in one location where one trade can work alone.

Level 3 > Summary of task trades in level 4

Level 2 > Summary of Level 3 in blocks or zones.

Level 1 > Whole Project.

Some planners never go beyond level 3 but you must develope into level 4 to create a live responsive project with a true critical path.

Best regards

Mike Testro

Hi Sally

Check this link for more details on levels in the scxhedule

http://plannenvoornietplanners.net/blog-in-english-v/50-levels-in-the-schedule.html

Johannes

The normal definition of levels based on the original ideas from Fleur and Bechtel is a 5 level format similar to Mikes but including a detailed level.

You can download the definitions from: http://www.mosaicprojects.com.au/PDF/Schedule_Levels.pdf

This framework is used in a number of key references linked from the paper.

sally,

try the AIA E202 as a guide - also I have a wiki guide for integrating software that has more detail than the E202

http://cife.stanford.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=granite:civil_vdc

comments on the guide are appreciated

Forest

You shall decide based on your own needs what each level means, the same goes for your clients. Different job types might require more or less levels, depending on a single all inclusive generic level definition might be too restrictive, and this applies for your different Portfolios.

It is pretentious and wrong for others to force you to exclusively use their definition because theirs is better than yours as if the exclusive owners of all truth.

I keep a WBS based on Area at a higher level and Function at a lower level, a WBS based on Function at a higher level and Area at a lower level, at rare times I keep an additional based on responsibility and of course, another for whatever the Client asks.

More frequently I define my WBS by a more free structure known in some software as Outline Structure to differentiate from their more restrictive WBS structure which is  similar to organizing by activity codes where all activities are located at the same level. 

What if your Global Portfolio which include other jobs by other clients/owners each based on different WBS none of which is compatible with the caprices of a particular client/owner?

The solution is simple, maintain your jobs as per your own company standards and create a WBS for this purposes, then create additional WBS dictionaries for the needs of your clients. If your software do not provide for multiple WBS I suggest you dump the “trompo toy” and get serious software.

Regards,

Rafael

Hi Mike,

would you please explain me why u peoples are using this "levels"??? is that a grade???

Expecting a gud answer,

rinoj.............