QUESTION: AD ;m[u7
Have you seen a decline in the Project Control workplace over the years? lMv6QL\>'
RESPONSE: Fe8X@63
Planning & Scheduling (P&S)- I think there was a high point in the early days of computerized scheduling when the work was done on mainframe computers by a small number of experts in CPM Scheduling. But once the personal computers made scheduling software available to everyone, technical scheduling took a nosedive and respect for the professional scheduler fell drastically. If anyone can do it, no one has much respect for the discipline, particularly when the results have been as erratic and poorly executed as we’ve seen so often. But over the past ten or fifteen years, mostly due to people like us who have dedicated time to the industry in an effort to improve it, respect for professional P&S has grown until now, there is much more respect and appreciation for planners and schedulers, in fact more than for project managers in many cases. Unfortunately, there is still a problem with owner and contractor willingness to budget enough money in a project for the in-depth P&S services that projects need. `zoHgn7B9q
