Publishing the Schedule

• Published in: Project Scheduling and Management for Construction Vol. 89; pp. 91 - 111
• Main Author: Pierce, David R., Jr
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States R. S. Means Company, Incorporated 2013; Wiley; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: coding schemes; planning process; scheduling process
• ISBN: 9781118367803; 1118367804; 111877955X; 9781118779552
• DOI: 10.1002/9781118779552.ch5

This chapter describes how to use a schedule efficiently even when large amounts of detail are involved. The tasks required to organize and effectively use the schedule may seem too complicated to be worthwhile. Prior to sending the baseline schedule to the owner and the other players on the project, the project team should perform an extensive review of the schedule as it is planned to ensure that the team's planning process has created a usable schedule that is clear to all. The schedule must be organized in such a way that these three key tasks can be accomplished namely, selection, sorting, and summation. The chapter describes coding schemes from the sample office building and other building types, which are examples of types of coding that allow the project scheduler to provide information in a number of different ways.