All efforts spent developing a baseline schedule can be wasted unless progress is monitored and changes to work are reflected in periodic schedule updates.\u00a0 A periodic schedule update consists of two distinct processes, first updating for achieved progress and second incorporating changes to work and their impact to critical and near critical paths.\u00a0 Changes must be evaluated separately and consistently to allow project stakeholders the opportunity to mitigate impacts of change.\u00a0 Failure to implement change management as a separate process often reduces the effectiveness of the schedule as a real-time management tool.<\/p>\n
Schedulers and delay analysts should create a schedule comparison report with every change and schedule update. \u00a0The comparison report is created as part of the routine monthly report and serves multiple purposes.\u00a0 It serves to document the basis of the delay analysis as well as being a full auditable record of the project schedule.\u00a0 This schedule comparison report also should be created for each impacted version of a schedule to serve as the full record and audit trail of multiple layers of time impact analysis (TIA).\u00a0 This is important because it documents the incremental impact of each layered change or disruption to the project.<\/p>\n
Traditional schedule comparison tools compare every field and produce a lengthy report.\u00a0\u00a0 Most often these comparison reports are difficult to use without clean up and reformatting.\u00a0 The schedule review and documentation of the changes require a streamlined approach.\u00a0 For example duration changes and description changes should be summarized in one report because both a description and original duration change may indicate an activity scope change.\u00a0 It is important to see the added activities with their duration and float values on one report.\u00a0 There should be composite reports to show every change to each activity.\u00a0 Change Inspector <\/a>software provides the schedule comparison results in a series of comprehensive and organized reports.\u00a0 It works with Primavera (XER) files and Microsoft MPP files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All efforts spent developing a baseline schedule can be wasted unless progress is monitored and changes to work are reflected in periodic schedule updates.\u00a0 A periodic schedule update consists of two distinct processes, first updating for achieved progress and second … Continue reading