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Planning & Scheduling - Principles & Best Practices
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Properly planning a project at the very begining is crucial to project success. More projects fail because they're improperly initiated than for any other single reason.
Planning & Scheduling provides construction executives and project management team members alike with an understanding of the planning and scheduling concepts and process steps needed to build civil works jobs on-time and within budget.
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Planning & Scheduling provides construction executives and project management team members alike with an understanding of the planning and scheduling concepts and process steps needed to build civil works jobs on-time and within budget.
So, lets discuss more on this topic....
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Professional needed to select planning scheduling tools
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Use Gantt Charts
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Sumit Singh
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"Use Gantt Charts"
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Gantt Charts (Gant Charts) are useful tools for analyzing and planning more complex projects. They: Help you to plan out the tasks that need to be completed Give you a basis for scheduling when these tasks will be carried out Allow you to plan...
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SHIVENDRA KUMAR JHA
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"Professional needed to select planning scheduling tools"
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person involved in the job should be aware of WBS and CPM/ PERT. That is all about planning. Please do not plan , which you can not monitor. It is worse than poor planning.
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Ideate: "Construction needs Planning and scheduling Knowledge" deleted from your view.
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Planning
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Execution
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anuradha
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"Planning"
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Without planning execution is not possible and not viz-a-viz. if planning is done correctly/minutely its executive definately brings result.
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VISHWA DEEPAK MISHRA
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A POTENTIAL OUTCOME OF AN EXECUTION CAN ONLY DELIVER A SUCCESSIVE PLANNING AHEAD CAN KEEP THE MOMENTUM ON A SWING. NO DOUBTS PLANNING IS AN INITIAL STAGE,BUT CAN BE CONTINUED IF A PROPER DELIVERANCE OF EXECUTION IS ENSURED.
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M NITIN SHENOY, PMP, IPMA-D, CEng MICE
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"Planning"
| 2 years ago
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If your OBJECTIVE is to JUST COMPLETE the project then EXECUTION alone is ENOUGH ! But if you would like to COMPLETE the Project within SET CONSTRAINTS to MEET/ACHIEVE all SUCCESS CRITERIA for a PROJECT SUCCESS then GOOD PLANNING is a MUST PRIOR...
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Debate: "Planning v/s execution" deleted from your view.
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Proper financial planning
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Construction Materials
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Prashanth Shetygere Kempanna
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"Use optimum fund availabe"
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Advance procurement will only result in unwanted inventory, which in turn is bad investment- need meticulous working not just Jnan
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Y S Lam
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"Construction Materials"
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since steel is one of the main factor optimising the usage like ordering cut to size bar will minimise wastage. in case full length bar, bar schedule need to be carefully plan to minimise wastage.
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Srinivas S.Mantrala, PMP
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"Proper financial planning"
| 2 years ago
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Bottom up estimating always gives more information and it is possible to take good decisions on the cost aspects on the material those actually consume.But for preparing the these estimates consume lot of time and expenses the construction firms...
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Ideate: " How to plan for construction cost escalations??" deleted from your view.
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Best Scheduling Technique - A Myth!!!
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PRIMEVERA
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rakeshbhatnagar
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"plenty of scheduling technics are available but a sucessfull schedule related to practical approch is not available."
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There are plenty of methods available but non of them are sucessfull in practical life as the targets must be achivable. your dependency is over the men power which will work as he wish, that will be the time required to finish the activity.So all...
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Dipak Bhattacharya
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"Use of the Last Planner System"
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Ankit, there has to be an overall target and/or a criteria of approach first, otherwise how and what shall you plan fortnightly?There has to be an ideal objective first.Let client speak out or the circumstances determine what is or what should be...
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Ashutosh Maurya, PMP, CCE
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"Best Scheduling Technique - A Myth!!!"
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I totally disagree with Nitin. If Primavera or (any CPM based software) is not working at your organization that is the problem of the organization or the group you are working with. I have planned and executed the project with extensive use of...
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Ideate: "Best Scheduling Techniques in Construction Projects." deleted from your view.
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SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE
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| 1 year ago
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Planning is nothing to do with skill shortage in construction industry, as skill is required only after proper planning or a proper plan of implementation.
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Brajesh Mishra
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| 1 year ago
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Yes. Oe course improper planning will lead to erroneous result of the project. The planning should be realistic one based on the past experiences of similar nature projects and must be done by an experienced person of the concerned field.Here in...
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Debate: "Planning is the keyword for skill shortage in construction industry." deleted from your view.
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Anand Balasubramanian
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Yes, improper planning leads to delayed procurement, availability of material, labour, funds need to mgmt..etc. These elements lead to delay in the completion of the project.
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Debate: "Is improper planning responsible for failure of Construction Projects." deleted from your view.
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K.R. Manish
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Local milestones & schedules of traditional project management have mostly led to bottlenecking of resources when it comes to actual project execution. This has resulted in different departments having different task priorities while leading to...
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Debate: "Are planning local schedules and local milestones useful for faster execution of complex projects?? " deleted from your view.
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Debate: "The hurdles in overcoming the effect of natural calamities on construction planning." deleted from your view.
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to know your return on every project you run
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Enhances Communication
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SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE
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"to know your return on every project you run"
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I support this idea. It help us to know our profit & loss statement.
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Mohammad Bakhsh
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"Improving bid hit ratio and revenue"
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The ultimate aim of any organization is to produce quality product within the resources and improve revenue.IR results from proper planning and resource management.
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Ideate: "What are the benefits of planning & scheduling? " deleted from your view.
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There are various programs are available under distance learning mode being organised by universities. The students are looking towards us. Give them the meaning where you can. Come forward put it on...
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Suryanarayan Murthy
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| 8 months ago
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Change the caption as "Interested in Further Studies ?" and post it "Post Article" topic. It will generate many replies. Sorry for the unsolicited advice.
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Answer: "What I can do for distance learning students ?" deleted from your view.
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