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Vol. XII Issue I - January 2010
Project Management eJournal
GUEST EDITORIAL
Construction Project Scheduling Today: Issues and Controversies
By Earl Glenwright
Colorado, USA
Editor’s note: This editorial launches a new series of articles in PM World Today related to construction project scheduling, by one of the world’s leading project scheduling experts. Earl Glenwright has nearly 40 years of experience in the field of construction project scheduling. He has agreed to provide a series of articles on various aspects of the topic for our readers. We hope this series provides new and useful information for those of you engaged in planning and managing construction projects around the world. This guest editorial introduces the series.
PM World Today is introducing a new monthly series of presentations on contemporary construction scheduling issues and discussions about controversial aspects of construction scheduling in the real world of today’s projects.
Construction Scheduling has been evolving from its beginning in 1957 until today. Consequently practitioners and management teams should upgrade their understanding of the principles, processes, practices, and how they can profit by taking full advantage of current techniques.
Hence we must put today’s scheduling practices in a contemporary perspective.
To understand the issues, explanations, and remedies one must accept the reality that an evolution has occurred in the way we practice the use of scheduling principles and processes today. Many prior practices, albeit appropriate work-arounds of software and hardware limitations at the time they were used, are no longer appropriate. In fact they are hindering full use of current hardware and software in the most effective way of achieving the full benefits that are now available. Good scheduling practices will enhance achieving on-time completion of construction projects which ultimately manifests itself in larger contributions that increase the amount of profit.
Experienced senior scheduling managers are not all in agreement but they do acknowledge the issues.
About the Author
Earl Glenwright, PSP Author
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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