Does Your Project Schedule Have Too Much Detail?

[@bobnimorwicz48]

Great tips Michael and Dr. Saleh Mubarak!! It's about the ability to manage.

[@nohandlebarmtb]

My project has 40k activities, 100k relationships and 1 MM work hours, I wonder if I will be able to manage that alone in the field.

[@engrkamranullahkhan1083]

very informative videos , thanks to Plan academy team, specially to sir saleh mubarak . wainting for more videos like this

[@mustafaali-dz1yx]

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx One Tip to add to your amazing presentation which is using an excel spreadsheet to backup the level of detail if required which is what the construction team really bother about which can update the planning team. as an Example when i do a schedule for electrical cable pulling, glanding and termination i do a No. of cables from point A to point B but i face a lot of trouble updating it, and the construction team disagree as the need further details which is cable size and tag No. so i backup their work with an excel sheet, which they would fill that daily, weekly and i got what i need from there. Thanks Dr.Saleh

[@HaythamSAtia]

Thank you! very good tips.

[@akporta]

In P6 one could use steps to track individual items (such as each column in a floor) within and activity, which would still be detailed to MAINTAIN, but would reduce the number of activities displayed/printed.

[@quevengalang4874]

Very helpful

[@heshamabdelhak8289]

I have a project 500 residential villa , I will devide it to 10 zones. How can I deal with each 50 villa for activities ? For example for 1st floor r c slab I suggest to be activities (1 st floor r c slab for 1 to 50 villa ) Am I all right? Or there is another way ?

[@PlanAcademy]

There is no right or wrong way - you have to decide how much detail you are willing to track AND how you group activities to track them.

[@AhmedAli-dj9jo]

Thank you so much

[@PlanAcademy]

You're very welcome!

[@UjangSonjaya]

amazing for your sharing, very useful for me, Syukron, Masya Allah, Tabarakallh

[@PlanAcademy]

Glad to hear that

[@ramie9855]

Thanks, it was really awesome! What about decomposing activity based on its duration? for example no activity's duration should be more than two or three weeks, if we have weekly progress meeting. In other word activities are decomposed to the level allow for better control?

[@PlanAcademy]

Saleh and I advocate not for breaking down an activity based on duration, but rather based on your confidence to manage the activity. If the activity is large, how confident are you that it's accurate? That if you have to stop the work, there isn't a component bundled-in that could be broken out for work to continue on. etc.

[@akporta]

@@PlanAcademy That's ideal in theory, reaching a manageable level of detail is important. However, there are client agencies (particularly in government) that will specify an activity must not have more than a certain duration (typically equal to one reporting period). In those cases one has no choice but to break activities to comply with the spec, which unfortunately could end up creating a very detailed schedule and nothing can be done about it.

[@roadrunnerpro_d]

Very good video

[@PlanAcademy]

enjoy!