Simplifying CPM Schedules: Dealing with Logic, Lags, and Constraints

Overview:

This seminar will go briefly over the creation of a typical construction CPM schedule: Breaking down the project into activities, estimating their duration, and sequencing them. It will provide many hints that aim to simplify the schedule and making it more “users-friendly” for the field people. The schedule will also be easier to work with for:

• Schedule updating, measuring work progress, determining percent complete, and project controls
• Schedule acceleration
• Delay claim analysis

The seminar will discuss certain techniques to be followed when creating and updating the CPM schedule that will make it simpler, easier to understand and deal with, and users-friendly in general.

Why you should Attend:

This seminar provides invaluable tips and hints for planners and schedulers for the creation of a simple and easy-to-understand CPM schedules. These hints add a lot of “value” to the schedule and the project. It can make the introduction of the schedule to the project team easier, and its implementation smoother. The process of project control, schedule updating, and measuring work progress will be easier. Also in case of project acceleration or delay claim analysis, the process will be much easier. 

This seminar is suitable for planners, schedulers, project control.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Quick review to the critical path method (CPM) and how it is created
• Project breakdown: what criteria are used to break the project into activities?
• Types of activities regarding duration
• Types of lags and leads
• Precedence diagrams and the complicated logic: Offering alternative solutions
• Techniques to  simplify the logic network
• Impact of simplification on several aspects of the schedule such as acceleration and delay claim analysis

Who Will Benefit:

• Planners
• Schedulers
• Project control managers
• Contractors
• Project managers
• Project management team members
• Architects
• Engineers
• Attorneys / lawyers