Excellent answer Sharil. Sean, you should not restate anything that's already in the BOS. If there's anything related to it that should be in the SMP, use referencing tools (intranet hyperlink) like SharePoint, common drive, or Livelink. It also gives you control when it comes to versioning documents. Hope this is helpful.
Rufran
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Rufran Frago P. Eng. PMP CCP PMI-RMP
Founder/Business and Project Consultant
PM Solution Pro |RBM&S Inc.
Calgary AB
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-26-2020 21:01
From: Shahril Othman
Subject: Schedule Management Plan
Sean,
Not sure if this will help, but here are my thoughts:
1. Schedule Basis is explains how your schedule is derived and explains the logic behind, the assumptions and the contingencies built into your schedule.
2. Schedule management plan is how you would develop and control your schedule once it is initially baselined.
For a schedule management plan I would have:
1. Reference documents - refer to your basis and schedule documents as well as guidelines on schedule management (either corporate or other)
2. Project brief - explain briefly the project (this is not really necessary but I feel it would help anyone who picks up your plan understand the project background)
3. Responsibilities and accountabilities - who is responsible from the development of the schedule to base lining of the schedule to managing day to day progress control, nice to have a matrix
4. Explain the sequence from initially developing your schedule. Do you do planning workshops? If so include a somewhat detailed process on how this would be conducted and results incorporated into the schedule. Do you need to do a schedule risk analysis? Include some description of the process here as well.
5. Interfaces - with engineering, procurement, operations, turnaround teams, construction, etc. what elements of input do you need from these different groups?
6. Review and validation process - who needs to check and validate the schedule? Identify which groups or individual can provide this.
7. Progress control and measurement - post baselining, how will you measure progress and ensure control is maintained. What do you do if the schedule is out of control? How often and who to report to?
Keep the language simple yet sufficiently detailed so readers can understand if they pick up your plan.
And keep checking back once you've finalized it, because from time to time, we forget and this will help to remind us how we initially wanted to implement the schedule.
regards,
Shahril
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Shahril Othman
Kuala Belait
(673) 717-1101
Original Message:
Sent: 09-10-2019 01:29
From: Sean Vermaak
Subject: Schedule Management Plan
I am assisting one of my planners to develop a Schedule Management Plan (SMP). As a first draft, he has developed the backbone / index for what he believes should reside in the SMP. After reviewing I see that many of the elements he has in the SMP also reside in our Basis of Schedule. He has based the SMP on a combination of project control institutes literature in an attempt to have something that makes sense and is usable. As I don't want duplication of information, neither reinvent the wheel, my question is, what is a common structure / content of a Schedule Management Plan?
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Sean Vermaak PSP
Planning Manager
Profactaplan
Darling
+27827732194
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