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New Scheduling Workshop
 
Bookings are now open for Mosaic's new 5-STEPS Scheduling workshop based on the PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling. Next courses:
  • PMI Melbourne 16th February 2010 - [bookings]
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Core Papers:

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The questions 'what makes a good schedule?' 'what makes a good planner?' and 'what should they do?' are addressed in these papers:
Also:
Practice Standard for Scheduling The Practice Standard for Scheduling

Price: $60.50
+ Delivery charges $11 (Australia only)

Effective project scheduling is critical to the success of a project. PMI's The Practice Standard for Scheduling is a systematic guide describing the hallmarks of an effective scheduling methodology, as well as providing quantifiable means for assessing the maturity of a schedule model.
Chapters: 1 - Intro (1 p)
2 - Schedule development process (6 p)
3 - Good Practices (9 p)
4 - Scheduling Components
(33p)
ie, a listing of items and their characteristics: name, required/optional, calculated/manual, data format, behaviour description, good practices, associated component, definition
5 - Conformance Index (2 p) and Conformance Scoring in Appx D. See more on 
Schedule Conformance Scoring

Plus a lengthy Glossary (20 p)
 
This standard is also available from:
The PMI Bookshop: www.pmi.org
Amazon: www.amazon.com
 

The need for good scheduling practice:

The disastrous state of schedule practice in the construction industry is detailed in the report Managing the Risk of Delayed Completion in the 21st Century [or download the smaller executive summary]. Between December 2007 and January 2008, The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) conducted a survey of the construction industry’s knowledge and experience of different methods of project control, and time management, record keeping, monitoring and training.  The findings suggest there is a lot of work needed to achieve general 'best practice',  Based on the reports findings, the CIOB believes that it is essential to educate project planners and schedulers in construction time management best practice with an aim to reduce the incidence of delayed
project completion. To achieve this, the CIOB have adopted a three-phase strategy to develop the required standards for the performance of effective time control. The CIOB’s Policy Statement defines their 3 phase approach to improving schedule management in the construction industry. Phase 1.1, the development of a Guide to Good Practice is nearing completion; Mosaic's Patrick Weaver has been a member of the group of international planners and schedulers working on this phase of the project.

The key person driving the report and the on-going work by CIOB to develop the 'Best Practice' standard and scheduling certification in Keith Pickavance, former CIOB President and Keynote speaker at PM Asia 2008.  Read 'Time is NOT money', a conversation with Keith Pickavance' for some background on this initiative and Keith's assertion the 21st Century will be 'The Age of Time'. We are working to support the CIOB initiative to develop its 'Guide to good practice in project scheduling' and definitely expect to see the management of 'time risks' improved from this work and the comparable efforts being lead by the PMI College of Scheduling - http://www.pmicos.org.  Publication of  'The Practice Standard for Scheduling' is only the beginning!

Mosaic's key contributions to improving schedule practice are the conformance scoring tool and our training courses outlined below.
 

Schedule Conformance Scoring Tool

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The new PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling include a conformance scoring system that allows schedules to be rated for conformance with accepted good practice. This version of the Standards allows assessors to assess whether a schedule uses (ie contains) a component correctly, not the way it is utilised (ie, its usefulness).  Mosaic plans to release a tool to facilitate the assessment of schedules in accord with the Standard this year.

Manual assessments based on the standard are available now. For a quotation email:  conformance@mosaicprojects.com.au

To purchase a copy of the PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling go to our [ books page ]

To register interest in this new tool email:  conformance@mosaicprojects.com.au 


Scheduling Training and Certifications 

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Our thoughts on the value of scheduling credentials were presented to the Victorian Primavera User Group (VPUG) in August 2008 - [view the presentation]
 
Scheduling Consultancy and Support 

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Planning & Scheduling Resources 

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Mosaic's Published Papers  

Mosaic's Scheduling Blogs - [visit blog]

Scheduling Organisations and Useful Links


Scheduling Books and Standards

Scheduling Software, Tools and Techniques 



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