Program and Production Scheduling

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The iterative and cyclical approach to project scheduling, as shown in Figure 1, provides numerous additional benefits. These benefits include: unity of organizational effort; confirmation of project manager scheduling; transparency into project scheduling; commitment from management to meet schedule deadlines; the ability to track areas of resource constraints; the ability to measure performance and provide triggers for asset management functions; and the ability to identify areas within the business that are impacting production in a quantifiable manner.

The program schedule is developed in conjunction with the initiation phase of a project. Its primary function is to organize the future activities of a conglomeration of new and old projects. A compilation of new project charters and existing project schedules provide the input necessary to developing the program schedule. The project charters should contain at least a high level scope statement, a project budget, and the required in-service date. The charters at this point may not relate the projects to each other. The program schedule provides unity, creating the initial schedule for implementing the projects in a defined and coordinated manner. The program schedules consolidate and organize the required in-service date and scope information from new project charters, with the current schedule dates for existing …

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