1. Comments:
• Illustrates the management functions within a construction company
• Planning supports estimating
• Planning supports construction
Discussion:
How do companies organise to deliver these functions?

2. Comments:
• List of activities
• Start, duration, finish
Discussion:
Discuss the level of detail of each activity.

3. Discussion:
Discuss each step.

4. Comments:
Talk through calculation of earliest and latest times of each event.

5. Comments:
Compare the precedence diagram with activity-on-the-arrow.
Discussion:
What is the more common, what is easier to use?

6. Comments:
Contrast the differences in the aggregated resources.
Discussion:
Discuss how the variation between these two resource charts could be deployed.

7. Discussion:
Discuss the value of including probabilities into network planning.

8. Comments:
This is an example of the technique Last Planner.
Discussion:
Discuss the use of Last Planner.

9. 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.

10. Discussion:
Discuss the implications of:
• Planning multiple projects
• Single versus multiple project planning.