CPM tip #1: Hire a scheduler with Construction Management experience The ideal career path for a scheduler is: Superintendent->Project Manager-> Construction Scheduler. It is the career path less traveled; but if you can find even one such scheduler, you will have really found something. A scheduler without construction experience can’t build a schedule without the help from a CM type. …
Your projects seem very interesting. I would like to talk with you more about how to use a rigorous schedule update review process to optimize construction management. I call it; construction management beyond reproach (CMBR). I am not talking about nitpicking the minor aspects of the schedule. I agree with you, that is futile. What I am talking about is validating …
I heard a top executive for a 500m GC say to a large state client: Having the CM team manage the CPM Schedule was like letting the fox guard the hen house! That got my attention… He continued: Even my own construction managers will spin the project to highlight owner-side delays and hide builder-side delays. In the mean time, the …
The Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, (aacei), introduced the Professional Scheduler and Planner Certification, (PSP), in 2006. Now, four years later, about 900 schedulers have been certified. I can tell you, the exam is rigorous. Only half of the candidates pass the test on their first attempt. I took the test last summer, (2009), and was sweating …
