Simplifying CPM Schedules: Dealing with Logic, Lags, and Constraints
Saleh Mubarak, Ph.D.
- Construction project management professional, professor, consultant, author, public speaker, and trainer.
- Ph.D. in civil engineering from Clemson University, USA, specialized in Construction Project Management.
- Experience: 30+years,diversified:
o Industrial: private and public sectors, in the U.S. and international. Positions occupied include project engineer / manager, cost estimator, planner / scheduler, project controls manager, cost manager, training manager.
o Academic: faculty member / professor, head of department. - Extensive experience in continuing education and professional training around the world.
- Author of:
o Construction Project Scheduling and Control, 4th edition
o How to Estimate with Means Data: Basic Skills for Building Construction, 5th edition.
o Many articles; technical and other - Many presentations in professional conferences such as PMI, AACE International. Public speaker in many local, regional, and international events.
- An authority on project planning, scheduling, and project control.
- An advocate of holistic healthy living
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 make it more “user-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 more user-friendly in general.
Areas Covered
- Quick review of 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
Course Level - Intermediate
Who Should Attend
Planners, schedulers, project control managers, contractors, project managers, project management team members, architects, engineers, attorneys/lawyers
Why Should You Attend
This seminar provides invaluable tips and hints for planners and schedulers for the creation of 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, and project control.
Topic Background
In construction project scheduling, there are 3 major parties that influence the schedule: Academicians who do the research, professionals who work with real projects, and the software industry who try to capture the theory and then introduce it in a practical way to the professional. It seems like a smooth circle but the problem comes from a potential missing link that rendered schedules complicated for implementation and analysis. The objective of this seminar is to provide hints to simplify schedules, making them more understandable and easier to work with.
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$200.00
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