Written by:Catherine Binuya, Ed.D.

Presentation Overview: Bailey-Darron

Presenter: Darron Bailey, MBA, PSP, is the principal founder of Construction Data and Analytics. He is a planning and schedule professional with twenty years of industry experience. His company, CDA, provides project scheduling and cost controls services in major metro areas such as Atlanta, St. Louis, Dallas, Orlando, and Nashville.

Speaking from his experiences on both public and private construction projects, Darron Bailey presented on the key steps of project planning and scheduling.

Takeaways

  • Major reasons for delays—inefficient management, implementation failure, weather, design flaws, scope increase, economic changes, failure to coordinate time schedules, failures in execution. The construction industry is notoriously known for project delays. Construction Planning, if planned correctly, project schedule usually runs smoother.
  • Manpower, machines, materials, and money are the top four critical factors to monitor that impact project planning and scheduling. Other factors are space, time, and tasks.
  • Control Cycle is an iterative process involving four key stages: Plan, Monitor, Compare, Action. Comparisons from project updates vs. expected baseline targets calls attention if an activity slips. During Action stage, it is key to monitor variances. Projects may require setting new baseline targets.
  • Project Planning and Execution are Action stages. Reporting deliverables, cost, scheduling, etc. on a bi-weekly basis allows for PMO working teams to stay abreast of the project. On projects, CDA works with cost engineers, schedulers, project managers to form a PMO group. This allows all team members to stay accountable to project completion.
  • Framework, PMO, updating scheduling, Schedule Reporting (SV) – gap between baseline and current schedule represents variance, Schedule Reporting (Compression) – accelerating certain phases of a project in an attempt to get scheduling back on track, Monitoring Costs, Monitoring Cost Variance, and Critical Ratio are all key steps to project planning and scheduling.

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