PROJECT PLANNING - Objectives of Project Planning - Principles of Project Planning - Planning Techniques

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Project planning is presented as an administrative process with clear objectives: forecasting manpower, materials, and equipment needs, estimating financial requirements, enabling measurable progress control, reducing idle time for workers and machines, defining completion time, and setting delivery schedules for required materials. It outlines core principles, including clarity, realism, flexibility under changing circumstances, comprehensive coverage from briefing to commissioning, and suitability for monitoring and control. Common planning techniques are described, focusing on bar charts, linked bar charts, and network analysis, with examples of time-scale usage and progress shading.

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Objectives of Project Planning

Principles of Project Planning

Planning Techniques

Bar Charts and Linked Bar Charts

Time Now and Progress Control Charts

Linked Bar Charts

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PROJECT PLANNING Dr. TOLGA ÇELİK CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OBJECTIVES OF PROJECT PLANNING Planning a project is an administrative process. The objectives of planning are: – To forecast the resource requirements of people, material and equipment. – To forecast the financial requirements. – To provide a suitable control tool against which progress can be measured. – To minimize the unproductive time of both men and machine. – To find the time required completing the project. – To establish the time for delivering the materials required. PRINCIPLES OF PROJECT PLANNING Planning techniques range from simple bar charts to computerized network analysis. However all techniques are based on certain principles such as: i. The plan should provide information in a readily understood form. ii. The plan should be realistic. There is no point, for example, in planning a building to be completed in six months, if the delivery period for cement is five months. iii. The plan should be flexible. It should be possible to alter certain elements without disrupting the entire plan when circumstances change. iv. The plan should serve as a basis for progress monitoring and control. v. The plan should be comprehensive. It should cover all the stages from briefing to commissioning. PLANNING TECHNIQUES The most common and widely used project planning techniques are: 1. Bar charts and linked bar charts. 2. Network analysis, either activity on the arrow or on the node. 3. Line of balance, for repetitive construction work. BAR CHARTS AND LINKED BAR CHARTS • Bar charts are the easiest to understand. • Most widely used form of planning tool. • Even when the more sophisticated techniques like network analysis are used the eventual schedule of work is usually presented in bar chart form. • In the bar chart technique, the list of activities is given and the duration of activities are shown as bars corresponding to each activity. • The length of the bar determines the duration of activities in a time scale system. • The unit of time on construction projects are normally days or weeks or months. See Fig. 5.1. Figure 5.1-Typical Bar Charts | Activity Description | Duration
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FAQs

What are the main objectives of project planning?

Project planning aims to forecast people, material, and equipment needs, estimate financial requirements, provide a control tool for measurable progress, minimize unproductive time, determine completion time, and set delivery times for required materials.

What principles should a project plan follow?

A plan should be presented in a readily understood form, be realistic, remain flexible to changes, support progress monitoring and control, and be comprehensive from briefing through commissioning.

How do bar charts support progress control?

Bar charts can be used as progress control charts by shading the lower (recording) section at the end of each time period. This shows how much work is completed versus the planned time, helping identify activities likely to finish late.

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