1. A presentation to the APM
Project Planning: A Career Path

2. Project Planning: A Career Path
1.Project Environment – Need!
2.What is a Project Planner
3.Qualifications & Assessment
4.Training and Development
5.Career Prospects
6.Summary
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Workshop

3. Project Environment
“ Without competent project planning most
projects will invariably fail to meet their given
time constraints”

4. Project Environment
Complex Projects
Contracts
Collaborative
Change

5. Project Environment
COMPLEX PROJECTS
Variety of Organisational & project Interfaces
Increased trades & stakeholder information
Volume of Reactive issues
Continual Benchmarking & Forecasting
Incorporation of Records and data

6. Project Environment

7. Project Environment
Dedicated Clause for “Time”
The programme should record the actual progress on each operation
Include effects of implemented compensation events…..
Provisions for Time Risk Allowance & Float
Activities resource loaded
Activity Health & Safety Requirements
A statement for how the contractor plans to do the work

8. Sanction
Model
Role Delay
BIM
Puts a massive emphasis on the ‘Project Planner’
Specifies detailed requirements for progress-records and scheduling
Requires an independent third party audit of the quality, consistency
and compliance of the entire planning function
Provides for liquidated damages for failure to manage the planning
function
The programme must be a dynamic critical path network
The employer has the power to instruct others to provide as-built
data and make an as-built schedule if not provided by the contractor
Assessment of delay & disruption to be calculated and awarded as the
project progresses with actual implications reviewed later
Workable with integrated computerised drawings and BIM
Project Environment
CIOB Contract for use with Complex Projects

9. Project Environment
Planner

10. Project Environment

11. Project Environment

12. Project Environment
An evaluation of 975 light And heavy
industrial projects by the Construction
Industry found that only 5.4% met “best in
class” predictability in terms of cost and
schedule
Poor planning estimates and missed
deadlines are among the largest contributors
to project failure, according to Insights and
Trends, PwC’s 2012 Global Project
Management Survey of participants in 28
countries
Research carried out by EC Harris
highlighted that UK construction disputes hit
an average value of £17.7m in 2012, while
the average time taken to resolve disputes
stretched to 12.9 months.
25% of global infrastructure projects are
delivered late

13. Project Environment

14. Project Environment

15. Project Environment
Dedicated
Focus
Support
Unprejudiced

16. The Project Planner

17. Project Planner
Curriculum Vitae
Software!
Pretty Picture!

18. Project Environment
“ A competent Project Planner is the most
important person on a project”
The Project Planner
“Project Planning is the establishment of a
projects duration through scheduling &
sequencing of activities and the management
of time through the project lifecycle to
facilitate delivery of projects to their given
time constraints”

19. The Project Planner

20. Project Environment
Scheduler
Collates programme information
Transfers the plan into a software
Update from given information
Planner
Establish the plan from first principles
Performance management
Review, revise, communicate and report
Project Controls
Identification of status
Strategy
Risk and Contingency

21. The Project Planner
- Delivery of projects to their given time constraints
- Management of change
- Management of risk and opportunity
- Management of the full supply-chain
- Communication and reporting

22. Project Time
Management
Model
The Project Planner
Strategy
Management
Development
Communication

23. The Project Planner
Strategy
Objectives
Stakeholders
Contract Type
Familiar
Environment
IT Infrastructure
Terminology & Procedures

24. The Project Planner
PROJECT
DESIGN
PROCUREMENT
CONSTRUCTION
COMMISSIONING
AREA A
AREA B
AREA A
AREA B
AREA A
AREA B
AREA A
AREA B
HIGH MEDIUM LOW
Schedule Density
Contractual compliance
Structure
Scope of Works
Activities
Durations
Logic (Critical Path)
Resource & Cost Loading
Sanity Check
Baseline
Development

25. The Project Planner
Schedule Density
HIGH MEDIUM LOW
Development

26. The Project Planner
Schedule Density
HIGH MEDIUM LOW
Progress
Updating

27. The Project Planner
Schedule Density
HIGH MEDIUM LOW
Re-scheduling

28. The Project Planner
Schedule Density
HIGH MEDIUM LOW
Performance
Monitoring

29. The Project Planner
Schedule Density
HIGH MEDIUM LOW
Change
Management

30. The Project Planner
Schedule Density
HIGH MEDIUM LOW
Review &
Revision

31. The Project Planner
Schedule Density
HIGH MEDIUM LOW
Risk &
Contingency

32. The Project Planner
Communication

33. Short Term
The Project Planner

34. The Project Planner
LAST REPORTING
PERIOD
NEXT REPORTING
PERIOD
MEDIUM/ LONG
TERM
Reporting

35. Tool - Software
The Project Planner

36. The Project Planner

37. Project Environment
“ A competent Project Planner is the most
important person on a project”
The Project Planner
“Project Planning is the establishment of a
projects duration through scheduling &
sequencing of activities and the management
of time through the project lifecycle to
facilitate delivery of projects to their given
time constraints”

38. Competence Assessment

39. Competence Assessment
Project Management Institute
PMI-
SP
Degree & Experience
Multiple Choice Examination
CPD

40. Competence Assessment
Association of Project Management
APMP
APM Body of Knowledge
Examination Paper

41. Competence Assessment
Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
NVQ/CFC
Working Qualification
Coursework & Assessment

42. Competence Assessment
Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International
AACEI-SP
8 Years experience
Multiple choice examination
or 4 years with a Degree

43. Competence Assessment
Chartered Institute of Building
PTMQ
Guide to Good Practice in the
Management of Time
Multiple choice examination

44. Competence Assessment
1 Strategic considerations Establishing the project controls environment, stakeholder
considerations.
2 Development The establishment of the processes, systems and practices that
will function in accordance with the established strategic
framework
3 Management & Control The mechanics of operating the project controls environment
(progress updating, change impact.
4 Communicating Possibly the most important aspect of a project controls
environment…how to engage with the project community
5 Specialist skills Key areas of the project controls environment that are often
adopted by ‘specialist’ on account of the depth of their potential
knowledge base and application
6 Personnel and team
development
Non-technical areas that are necessary to foster an effective
project controls team environment

45. The Project Planner

46. Competence Assessment

47. Competence Assessment
None Awareness Basic Competent Expert

48. Competence Assessment

49. Competence Assessment

50. Competence Assessment

51. Competence Assessment

52. Competence Assessment

53. Competence Assessment

54. Training and
Development

55. Training and
Development
• Planning and Project Controls foundation course
• Online
• Public
• Practical Management of Construction Delay and Disruption
• Bespoke company courses
• No courses based on use of software

56. Training &
Development

57. Training &
Development

58. Career Prospects

59. Delivery
Design
Procurement
Client
Specialist
Contractor
Commercial
The Project Planner

60. Career Prospects
BIM
Forensic
Planning
Specialist Training &
Development
Scheduler
Planner
Project Controls
Planning Manager

61. Career Prospects
Global construction growth is forecast to
reach $12 trillion by 2020, according to
Global Constructive Perspectives and Oxford
Economics

62. Career Prospects

63. Summary: A Career Path
Get assessed
Establish development needs
Training
Get qualified
Dirty your boots!
Scheduler
Planner
Project Controls

64. Thank You
Andrew Jones
Planning Manager
07985 220 845
andrew.jones@athenaprojectservices.com
www.athenaprojectservices.com