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Best Practices & Learning Center
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Why CPM is Important
Building a High-Quality Schedule
Understanding the Metrics
SmartPM/Procore Integration
Schedule Quality Metric Deep Dives
- Activities Later Than Tracked-To
- Activities Riding/Sitting On the Data Date
- Activity Name Changes
- Activity Total Float
- Backdated Activities
- Changed Actual Dates
- Constraint Metric Overview
- Critical Path %
- Dangling Activities
- Decreased Percent Complete
- Duplicate Activity Names
- Duplicate Relationships
- Future Actual Dates
- High Duration Activities
- Manually Scheduled Activities or Summary Tasks (.MPP Only)
- Missing Actual Finish Date
- One Day Activities
- Out Of Sequence
- Relationship: Finish to Finish
- Relationship: Finish to Start
- Relationship: Negative Lag
- Relationship: Positive Lag
- Relationship: Start to Finish
- Relationship: Start to Start
- Remaining Duration Discrepancy
- Resource Loaded Activities
- Started with 0%
- Summary Bar Logic Ties (.MPP Only)
- Total Relationships
- Unstatused Activities
The Basics of CPM Scheduling
How SmartPM Handles Schedules with Data Integrity Issues
Building a Quality Baseline Schedule
- How to Build a High Quality Baseline Schedule: Introduction
- Why the Critical Path Must be Accurate to have a High Quality Schedule.
- What is Schedule Quality?
- Step 1 - How to set up a baseline schedule
- Step 2 - Conduct Working Sessions to Map Out Project Plan Schedule Activities
- Step 3 - Organizational Structure
- Step 4 - List Activities and Set Durations
- Step 5 - Make Sure Your Plan is Thorough and Accurate
- Step 5 Examples
- Step 6 - Apply Necessary Constraints
- Step 7 - Optimize Your Schedule
- Quality Standards
- Relationship Ratios
- Finish to Start ties
- Missing Logic
- Lag Best Practices
- High Duration and Float
- Example of Schedule with Missing Logic and Constraints Removed.
- Example of a Schedule with Repaired Logic and Finish Constraints Removed
- Example of a Schedule with Long Durations
- Example of how Constraints Alter the Critical Path
- Guidelines to Minimize Schedule Quality Risk
- Building a Quality Baseline Schedule - Video
Schedule Updating Best Practices
- Schedule Updating Best Practices - Video
- The Importance of CPM Schedule Updating
- Introduction to CPM Schedule Updating Best Practices
- The Importance of Looking at the Critical and Near Critical Path in Schedule Updating
- Part 1 - Do's and Don'ts
- Part 2 - Do's and Don'ts
- Part 3 - Do's and Don'ts
- Step 1 - Walk the Site and Status the Job
- Step 2 - Update your Schedule with Site Walk Info
- Step 3 - Identify and Incorporate and Changes necessary.
- Types of Changes to Make in a Schedule Update
- Example of a Change Analysis
- Why Schedule Compression is a Problem
- Schedule Update Review Process
- Why Unachievable and Poor Quality Updates are Bad.