Career Issues---as a Planner
Shareef Abdul AzeezMember for 21 years
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Hi,
I would like to express my situation working as a Planner in UAE.
I started off as a Junior Planning Engineer for one of the construction companies in UAE; but being a fresher in Planning, I was at their head office where we used to prepare tender programmes for projects. I learned the basics of planning and the use of primavera. At our project sites Planners prepare monlthy progress updates, monthly reports, resource projections. Thats it..
and sometimes delay impact schedule. Claims is a section dealt by the Quantity Surveyors.
I worked here for 2 years and moved on to another company.
Here I work at the Site as a Planning Engineer, updating progress every now and then, revising programmes very often and I find that programme isnot relaible to give an actual finish date. The planned production is different from the actual production rate, there is no concern for planned production. Obstructions in work occur frequently, which is not recorded, atual progress at site is not quantified nor reported. Consultant Resident Engineer (who knows very little about primavera) checks the resource table and nothing else asks me to keep rectifying the allocated resource, when there is a lot of complications in the resource calculation when the activity actually starts....
I have finally turned out to be a site engineer who updates progress frequently to keep up to this situation.
I hear a lot about forensic claims, delay analysis planner etc...
How can I shift or direct my self into something like that..
Should I do a course...or something..
adding toall this nowadays companies ask for P6 experience.
When Costing on Promavera is not possible, I cant iagine doing it with P6..
Kindly Provide valuable information...
I am runnign out of time..Ill continue the rest of my plight in my next thread
I would like to express my situation working as a Planner in UAE.
I started off as a Junior Planning Engineer for one of the construction companies in UAE; but being a fresher in Planning, I was at their head office where we used to prepare tender programmes for projects. I learned the basics of planning and the use of primavera. At our project sites Planners prepare monlthy progress updates, monthly reports, resource projections. Thats it..
and sometimes delay impact schedule. Claims is a section dealt by the Quantity Surveyors.
I worked here for 2 years and moved on to another company.
Here I work at the Site as a Planning Engineer, updating progress every now and then, revising programmes very often and I find that programme isnot relaible to give an actual finish date. The planned production is different from the actual production rate, there is no concern for planned production. Obstructions in work occur frequently, which is not recorded, atual progress at site is not quantified nor reported. Consultant Resident Engineer (who knows very little about primavera) checks the resource table and nothing else asks me to keep rectifying the allocated resource, when there is a lot of complications in the resource calculation when the activity actually starts....
I have finally turned out to be a site engineer who updates progress frequently to keep up to this situation.
I hear a lot about forensic claims, delay analysis planner etc...
How can I shift or direct my self into something like that..
Should I do a course...or something..
adding toall this nowadays companies ask for P6 experience.
When Costing on Promavera is not possible, I cant iagine doing it with P6..
Kindly Provide valuable information...
I am runnign out of time..Ill continue the rest of my plight in my next thread
5 replies
Oldest first- 0Mike Testro ·Hi Shareef
You are not alone.
You have described the working conditions of a very large number of PP members around the world.
Its a bit like Cassandra - the mad daughter of Priam King of Troy when the Greeks invaded - she made accurate prophecies but she was never believed until it was too late.
As for getting into delay analysis you are starting from the right point in that you understand the reasons why delays are caused.
Why not start with your current project - when you have done all the progress reporting etc then practice delay analysis for real.
Save a file and start to put in the bottlenecks and problems that are being encountered and impact the likely completion date.
You can earn respect by doing this in your own time.
When you have some results show them to your upline manager and say "Look Boss I have been fiddling around with this - what do you think?"
Have some scenarios ready as to how the delay can be reduced (or "mitigated" in EoT speak)
If you do give it a try let me know how you get on.
Finally there is no course that I know of that teaches basic planning - let alone delay analysis.
Best regards
Mike Testro. - 0Roland Tannous ·Hey there,
I guess you might wanna start by reading some books related to the subject. But most importantly after you read a bit, come back to the forum and research specific subjects, you’ll get tips/tricks/hints that no book will give you in the sense that it will help you learn what works and what doesn’t work, the alternatives . This will hopefully get you going in the right direction.
Just message me and i’ll give you some book names, I’m not sure if I am allowed to post book names here
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