Time Location Charts, Free Template & Mini-Course

This year, I have decided to introduce a weekly review feature on this blog called Lookback, this where I’ll be summarising what I have seen online about Project Planning and Scheduling, during my daily after work night-time browsing sessions or weekend scroll through my feeds.

Time Location Charts. Anyone?

My first weekly lookback at the project planning and scheduling space begins on LinkedIn where Santosh Bhat, one of the 10 people I suggested you follow on LinkedIn in 2020, asked a question about the slow uptake of Time Location Charts on linear projects despite how effective they are at communicating project status to different stakeholders.

Though I have not worked on an onshore linear project, I still found the comments to Santosh’s question very insightful as one can easily see how this applies to other Planning and Scheduling reports.

Free Delay Tracker

Are you working on a construction project and would like to track your schedule delay? Plan Academy has made a Construction Schedule Delay Log available for download. This easy to use Microsoft Excel spreadsheet allows Planners & Schedulers to log schedule delay details such as cause of delay, status, criticality, responsible person, resolution etc. Why not head over to Plan Academy and grab a copy as this can be a time-saver for you in future.

Free Mini-Course

Jason Grabowski of Baseline Achieved has made one of his mini-courses available for free, yes for FREE. In this mini-course, Jason’s takes it back to the first principles by introducing the 5 Project Planning processes that he thinks are key to developing an effective project schedule.

This is a good course for anyone new to Project Planning and Scheduling or Microsoft Project. Register for this mini-course for free on Baseline Achieved and tell Jason, that Jerome recommended this mini-course.

Round the web

Are you interested in BIM? Then you might want to read a blog post by McKenzie Gregory of Autodesk, which contains a video on how BIM standards are evolving across the world and the importance of this evolution.