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Vol. XII Issue VII - July 2010

Project Management eJournal

 

MONTHLY COLUMN:

CONSTRUCTION PROJECT SCHEDULING TODAY: ISSUES & CONTROVERSIES

Planning Ahead: Schedule Framework Preparation

By Earl Glenwright, PSP, PE

Colorado, USA


Editor’s note:  This is the 6th article in a series on construction project scheduling that was introduced in a Guest Editorial by Earl Glenwright in the January edition of PM World Today.  Please read that introduction at http://www.pmworldtoday.net/archives/2010/Jan.html, where Earl sets the stage for articles on this important aspect of managing construction projects.

“PLAN AHEAD”. Who hasn’t heard this phrase a hundred times? Who coined it? I don’t know, maybe Confucius. Does it ever happen in the scheduling of construction work? I guess not.

The absence of schedule planning is a major problem in Construction today! [One of the May ‘issues’]

As construction projects become larger and more complex, with increasingly severe cost and time restraints, risk of success becomes marginal at best without adequate pre-construction detailed work and scheduling planning.

Here are some notable quotes:

Richard Little, Director of the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy, USC:

  • “Under pressure to ‘make something happen’, much-needed pre-project planning is being neglected“

  • Construction “managers need adequate lead time to ensure the work is well-planned and coordinated”

  • “There are innumerable studies that show the greatest opportunity for efficiency exists at the pre-project planning stage.”

  • “Despite the illusion of projects being ‘shovel ready’ they generally are not”

Barry Lepatner, Lepatner & Associates LLP New York NY:


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Earl Glenwright, PSP

About the Author

Earl Glenwright, PSP

Author

USA

Earl Glenwright, PSP, has a career spanning 40+ years in construction project scheduling. Earl is certified as a Planning and Scheduling Professional [PSP] by the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International [AACEi]. He frequently gives presentations at their annual conferences. Earl has both a BS in Civil Engineering and MBA degree and is a Registered Professional Engineer. Earl’s career has included multi-year positions in several countries including Brasil, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan. He currently lives in Colorado and Bulgaria. Prior to 1988 he was employed by the [US] Bureau of Reclamation and the [US] Army Corps of Engineers. After retiring in 1988 he has been a free-lance consultant for both contractor’s construction scheduling and small business Enterprise Project Management. His experience includes large and very large [super-mega] construction projects, very small projects such as construction planning, and scheduling for home construction by his Habitat for Humanity affiliate. Through his extensive scheduling experience he has been recognized as a Subject Matter Expert [SME], a Master Scheduler, and an Expert Advisor. Earl has been active in the Project Management Institute (PMI) for 30+ years. He has presented “Time & Cost” training at PMI’s annual seminar-symposia, and was a member of the initial PMBoK Guide Project Team, the 2000 update team, and the project team that prepared the 3rd edition. Earl has recently presented ‘workshop/seminars’ for Bulgarian project scheduling and controls persons which cover the 3 phases of scheduling: framework preparation/planning, schedule development, and schedule management and control. The workbooks are dual language English and Bulgarian. Earl can be contacted at earl_csss@yahoo.com.

 

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