Guides
What a scheduling manager wants your team to know
Plain explanations of the ideas that decide whether a schedule can be trusted.
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The DCMA 14-point schedule assessment explained
What each of the 14 DCMA schedule checks measures, the usual thresholds, and how a scheduling manager reads the results in a Primavera P6 schedule.
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Critical path and total float in Primavera P6
How to find the path that really drives your project finish in Primavera P6, what total and free float tell you, and the mistakes that hide the critical path.
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What is a block schedule, and how do you build one?
How to divide a construction project into manageable blocks driven by constraints, access and sequence, then build the logic inside and between blocks with crew flow in mind.
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How to build a manhour S-curve from a P6 schedule
How manhours spread across a Primavera P6 schedule become a reliable S-curve: early and late curves, calendars, actuals versus remaining, and how to check the totals.
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How to run a three-week lookahead that crews actually use
How to break master schedule activities into field steps, keep them tied to the P6 duration, and turn the lookahead into a weekly conversation with the site.
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How to write a basis of duration you can defend
The standard formulas for calculating activity durations from manhours, quantities, crews and shifts, with a worked example and the role of the productivity factor.
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