Baseline programme Narrative

Baseline CPM Narrative

The  Baseline CPM Network narrative should include the folowing:

• Assumptions used in development of the CPM network.

• Actions required by others (owner provided permits, owner provided utilities, owner provided access, owner provided equipment, etc..).

• The critical and near critical paths.

• Description of calendars and how holidays are incorporated.

• How the CPM network has accounted for inclement weather.                    

• How weather may impact certain activities.

• Planned sequencing and phasing.

• Anticipated manpower

• Over all plan for the project.

If the software does not disclose:

a) Volume of work and
b) Resource production rates

Then these shall be included on the narrative, otherwise it would essentially be useless as to verify the validity of activity durations.  This can be done though user defined fields to show, activity volume of work, unit of volume and resource loading production rates. 

If reviewer cannot verify the validity of activity durations then the schedule cannot be endorsed to be well-grounded. 

Thank you Zlotan, I"ll take in notes these points, but not clear if its possible to explain how resources were envisaged to work based on the Baseline programme?

Thank you Rafael..

Actually softwre does include volume of work but doesn't include resource production rate.

you will resource load the schedule look at the resource curve and state what the curve shows. We plan to start working with approximately 5 men and steadly incource our manpower to as the work becomes availabe and paln to peak at 50 men for approximately 4 months then begin to slowly ramp back down to approimately 5 men to finish the project. 

In order for activity duration be justified/validated we need both, volume of work and resource production rates.  True duration type activities whose duration is not dependent on the resources do happen, but are rare, an example of a duration activity is concrete curing.

To my understanding P6 does not relate in any way activity duration to volume of work and resource production rates, therefore it must be disclosed either in the narrative documents or as user defined fields that in no way will drive activity duration, scheduler should calculate it manually. 

Thank you Rafael for the explanation and attched material..