CPM HOW IS IT CREATED ?
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Ulysses GarciaMember for 21 years 1 month
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Hi Guys,
In my school days I learned the CPM is created as a result of forward and backward pass computation.
In this todays modern world with the aide of powerfull computers the CPM is totally violated in a sense it does not obey the proper rule of planning.
What i want to say , others are making or they first identify by themselselves where the CPM will run thru along the schedule not a CPM as a result of a computation.
My Question: Can CPM be indentify first or after computation
In my school days I learned the CPM is created as a result of forward and backward pass computation.
In this todays modern world with the aide of powerfull computers the CPM is totally violated in a sense it does not obey the proper rule of planning.
What i want to say , others are making or they first identify by themselselves where the CPM will run thru along the schedule not a CPM as a result of a computation.
My Question: Can CPM be indentify first or after computation
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Oldest first- 0Ashraf Jahangeer ·
Critical Path in a plan at the begining are usually identified and dictated by experienced team members, after that as the project progresses the critical path is dictated by the turn of events.
Most often as an irony since lots of the focus and effort is diverted to activities on the critical path they no longer remain critical.
- 0A D ·Yes absolutely Ashraf,
Everybody knows that, P3/MSP is a great tool to help PLANNING ENGINEER to save significant amount of time. But, like every other software, applications like p3, MSP are just tools; they do not execute the entire job for the PMs. It is unacceptable to expect a computer to manage the project, it just manages the vast amount of data that large projects require to store. Project management software is incapable of “establishing project objectives, define project tasks or dependencies, determine and manage project constraints”.
As the significance of having a proper Statement of Requirement becomes more and more apparent, project management software should consciously take a secondary role in a project system since their power can only be exploited when the project is defined correctly.
Computers can only help producing wrong plans faster, instead of understanding the critical path.
A Planning Engineer is not only a BUTTON PUSHER; but he is the brain of PM on the basis of which the entire project team works (say 1000’s of workforce).
Activities on critical path doesn’t reflect the valued activities in terms of cost, but is reflects only the duration required. It might be the case, wherein TOWER CRANE may remain idle, as it is having float, whereas small water tank construction is on the critical time during a taken period of time. So, ultimately, activities should be dictated by the PM/CM, and planning engineer should help these two guys, to take the project profit margin higher to the extent possible.
Hope I am clear.
Cheers,
Raviraj A Bhedase
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