CONST 230 - Project Management - Planning and Scheduling

1. Define, create, and diagram a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS); and shall point out how it formulates organizing a scope-of-work as justification for a construction project management plan required for project execution.
2. Identify with and recognize all 16 divisions that are part of the Construction Specifications Index, CSI MasterFormat.
3. Define, create, and prepare data activity sheets in support of examining scope-of-work and generating effort of duration for estimated construction activities.
4. List, show, and sequence construction project work activities into logical and coherent relationships. Prepare and diagram a network diagram.
5. Calculate and predict ES, EF, LS, LF dates explaining and executing the ‘forward pass’ and ‘backward pass’ technique.
6. Prepare initial construction project schedules and estimated durations.
7. Identify, relate to, and argue the importance and value of the critical path on a construction project. Explain accompanying float, or “slack” on a construction project and its impact.
8. Describe the importance working on a planning & scheduling team and model the value of teamwork in a planning environment.
9. Convert network diagram and critical path calculation exercise technique and translate into a project management scheduling software application, (i.e. MS Project or P6). Prepare and defend logic and critical path calculations.
10. Identify with and explain the importance of the use of the Gantt chart (bar chart) in a construction management environment.
11. Name, translate, and apply generally-accepted project management principles of planning in a construction environment.