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When stakeholders ask for detailed CPM schedules for approval and monitoring, but the contractor prefers simplified PERT charts, how can project managers balance expectations with practicality?

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SANJEET TERI
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Consultant| Timely Nexus Project LLP Greater NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Sanjeet -

It starts with understanding why those stakeholders want a lower level of detail in schedules and then managing those expectations based on the confidence level in current schedule estimates and the delivery approach utilized by the contractors and the rest of the team.

Kiron
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Mounir Ashour MAJMAA, 01, Saudi Arabia
thank you
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Mounir Ashour MAJMAA, 01, Saudi Arabia
THANK YOU
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Lissette Indhira Pimentel Sosa
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Program Manager| HARPER SRL Santo Domingo / Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
It helps to separate control from execution. Use the CPM schedule as the approved baseline for stakeholders, while allowing contractors to work with simpler PERT views for day-to-day delivery. As long as the simplified plan clearly maps back to the CPM schedule, expectations stay aligned without adding unnecessary friction.
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
If CPM is Critical Path Method then CPM and Critical Path are complementary. So, it is not a problem. I can show the same using both methods according to they needs. In the minetime, I am accountable to coach them on understanding both. BUT the key thing is: what the organization needs to visualize? Which is the defined method? That´s all that matters. It is not to satisfy each person requirement. it is about to be aligned to organization requirements.
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Alaa Alnafori
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Imam Abdulrahman bin Fasil university

SANJEET TERI Project managers balance this by using CPM as the official control baseline for stakeholder approval while translating it into simplified PERT or high-level views for day-to-day communication. The detailed CPM satisfies governance, traceability, and claims needs; the simplified charts keep the contractor focused on execution.

One schedule, two lenses: rigor for control, simplicity for action.

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