Scheduling Skills

Course goal

Our goal in this course is to teach you the best scheduling practices we know. With a new (or renewed) foundation of these skills we hope you end the course with more confidence in your work, access to new tools, and a network of other folks in the construction and design industry.

Session 1: Why use a Gantt Chart for Your Schedule?

Agenda

  • Welcome

  • Land Acknowledgement

  • Introductions

  • Why use a Gantt chart for your schedule.

  • Smartsheet Tutorial

  • Schedule Overview

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Homework

  • Find a project schedule from your company.

  • Open “Your Company Schedule” sheet and Save As New”

  • Add all the tasks from your project schedule, in the right section of this template.

Session 2: A Schedule without Predecessors is merely a Task List

Agenda

  • Gantt Chart Predecessors

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Homework

  • Add the element of time to your schedule using duration, start & end dates & predecessors.

    • IF this project is already complete, try to recreate the initial baseline and all the changes or delays.

    • IF this is an active project, set a baseline and begin to track changes from the baseline.

    • IF this is a future project, set a baseline.

Session 3: When Schedules Change

Agenda

  • Chronological V Production Led Schedules

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Homework

Session 4: Application of Schedules

Agenda

  • Review of PB&J Homework

  • Pre-Construction Schedule

  • Lead Tracker & Production Schedule

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Note: you will have access to this course syllabus (webpage) for 1 year, and access to the HELM Resource Library* (under the Resources dropdown menu) indefinitely. The Resource Library’s password is also “buildhelm”.

*many more resources will be added to this page soon.