CPM scheduling for construction : best practices and guidelines

✍ Scribed by Christopher Carson, Peter Oakander

• Publisher: Project Management Institute
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The present edition, an SEI collaboration with the PMI Scheduling Community of Practice, provides readers with a reference guide that is like having an experienced scheduling professional at hand.

The book itself is laid out in a way that follows the phases of building a project schedule: from project planning to project definition and schedule design, to development, maintenance, and usage of the schedule.

Each of these six sections, from planning through usage, is broken up into separate categories for detailed discussion and for easy reference:

Definition defining the topic term

Purpose establishing why the topic is used in the planning and scheduling process

Default Conditions establishing the conditions under which the topic is used and implemented

Best Practices establishing how the topic is used, the application options, and ways the topic is used, including evaluations of the various practices

Recommended Practices establishing preferred application or imple

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction --
Scheduling Excellence Initiative Committee --
Organizational structure of the volume --
Pre-project planning phase --
Schedule Design --
Schedule Development --
Schedule Maintenance --
Schedule Maintenance --
Appendix.