Work Schedule
Work Schedule turns existing CPM schedule activities into their work components. Single, multi-day activities are replaced by multiple one-day activities in series depicting actual days worked. The breakdown of large activities over a period of time into individual work units provides the analyst the opportunity to ‘look inside’ activities and observe the actual work performed. To create a Work Schedule, you must first have created a Work Profile that describes the actual work performed.
A Work Schedule is created in the following manner. If a work profile is found for an activity, the original activity is deleted and a new Work Schedule Activity is created for every work profile record found for that original activity. The duration is set and the activity codes and WBS are transferred from the old activity to each new activity that is a subset of the old. Additionally, optional data fields are also set. If the activity is before the data date, then actual dates are entered and if it is after the data date, then early dates are forced on the activity. The following is a depiction of the process,
The output of this program may exist as a modified As-Built Schedule, with each actual day work suspended in space for observation. The output may also be rendered into an unstatused, modified As-Planned Schedule that can be compared to the original As-Planned Schedule in a direct one-to-one comparison. Now when you talk about “actual duration,” you can mean “actual work duration.”
Each newly created Work Activity has the following features,
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The original description is transferred plus its serial identification,
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All activity codes are transferred,
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The WBS code is transferred,
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A Work Schedule Serial ID is added to link all Work Schedule activities that came from the same original activity,
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The original actual work date is inserted to document the new activity,
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A Work Resource is added to allow for P3 resource calculations and graphics,
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Planned activities (as well as As-built ones) can be converted as well,
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Fully configurable methods for creation of new Activity IDs,
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Complete documentation detailing every change/addition made is automatically created.
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