Epworth Hospital Extension Project
We have been given the baseline below that represents the tender submission, for the following project. But according to the scenario (term-assignment for one of the subjects @my master’s degree in unimelb) during the post-tender negotiations, the client requested a schedule compression of 20% to meet their business goals.
After acknowledging the request, schedule compression techniques are investigated to come up with the most beneficial “to-do plan”. Then I fast-tracked some activities as reasonably as possible so that the activity crashing process was implemented on the critical activities.
Because of the nature of the schedule, it was essential to check the critical path after every crashed activity to see if it relocates itself on the timeline or not. Thus we had to implement an iterative approach. After every iteration of ACR reports, a summary level 4 WBS schedule of the critical path is printed to monitor the process.
It took six iterations to compress the schedule by 20%. With this dynamic strategy, each ACR report listed all critical activities, based on the expert estimation of additional cost implications, and time savings, via sorting them by their cost slope values. Without such a tool, it would be impossible to engage at this level of precision.
In conclusion, one of the most punchy features of the Primavera software is custom reports. It would be wise to utilise this function to do repetitive tasks and reports, especially to represent projects on a weekly basis. Fastens workflow, creates a baseline communication, fact based, removes human error. I precisely value the last advantage of it. I imagine myself asking for reports from a project scheduler on a weekly basis, it can easily turn into a life draining tragedy every Friday. People are trying to generate such reports by using complex work flows using different softwares, such as MSP, excel, p6, and other third party softwares in combinations. This renders the process weak against any human error, one might easily skip adding a column before exporting to excel, or can come up with a misleading excel graph. Whereas if you have an automated approach to weekly reports, you would remove all unnecessary risks and become far more efficient than any hardworking bee.
