For any project we have to plan how we will complete the project.

Contraction work is
directly related to the cost and time, in the planning cost and planning gets priority, other
resources like materials, equipment are also taken care of in this planning and scheduling.
From this lecture we learn some of the terms like what is planning, scheduling, work package
and activity.
Project activity characterized the following criteria: If we can’t measure anyone we can’t pay
or we cannot measure cost for it. All activity must have start and finish time. Activity must be
assign, it could be individual or group of people.
In this lecture, 5 key steps involve to planning and scheduling process.
Work breakdown structure: here we can see an example of how we can prepare work
breakdown structure. We need to understand every element of that work. If we are not clearly
imagine what will be require to ultimately shape this structure and what activities are there,
we can’t prepare it accurately. One contractor template may not match with the other
contractor template.
Define activity: Here we can see all the activities that are require to perform that building
work is listed here. Work description like clearing and layout, excavate, concrete
foundations, plumbing etc. are comes directly from the breakdown structure.
Estimate activity durations: It means how long it will take to complete each activity.
Difference between start time and end time.
Work duration= (quantity of wok / number of crews) ×production rate.
Estimate activity cost: Cost is directly related to activity duration as well as how many people
in terms of labor is engaged that particular work. It also involve material and equipment cost
also.
Labor cost=total work hour × wage rate.
Work sequencing: How all the activities are interrelated to each other, we have to prepare
those in a graphical form in a sequential way.
Develop schedule: Schedule can be prepare mainly 2 way: network diagram and bar chart.
Those are mainly use for preparing schedule in graphical form.
In both diagram shows necessary sequence and interdependency of activities to achieve the
project objective. Those diagram include all of the task that are require to complete a
particular project. Both diagram has start and finish time and in between all of the activity
that are require to finish this work.
Major scheduling method: One is bar chart and other is the sequence diagram. Under
sequence diagram there are two method: CPM and PART method. CMP is deterministic
method and PART is a probabilistic method.
If kind of uncertainty is there then instead of CPM method we use PART method.