Comments: • Illustrates the management functions within a construction company • Planning supports estimating • Planning supports construction Discussion: How do companies organise to deliver these functions?
Comments: • List of activities • Start, duration, finish Discussion: Discuss the level of detail of each activity.
Discussion: Discuss each step.
Comments: Talk through calculation of earliest and latest times of each event.
Comments: Compare the precedence diagram with activity-on-the-arrow. Discussion: What is the more common, what is easier to use?
Comments: Contrast the differences in the aggregated resources. Discussion: Discuss how the variation between these two resource charts could be deployed.
Discussion: Discuss the value of including probabilities into network planning.
Comments: This is an example of the technique Last Planner. Discussion: Discuss the use of Last Planner.
Comments: This figure illustrates that the basic planning data was common to all systems. The basic activity schedule had to be developed at the estimating stage. Discussion: • Discuss the relationship between the functions of: estimating; planning; cost control; valuations; and variation pricing. • Discuss the data shared by each function.
Discussion: Discuss the implications of: • Planning multiple projects • Single versus multiple project planning.