PRIMAVERA WORK PROGRAM
The biggest blindness in the content of "Construction Project Management" is about the "Work Program".
In our country, there is no business management culture with a "Business Program". They think of the Work Program as a "Bar Chart" chart, which must be done by contract.
Planning is the brain of the "Construction Project Management" phenomenon, it is indispensable.
A work program detailed in Primavera also has an algorithm and detail that. You cannot think of the work schedule as a “Bar Chart”.
The most important point in the Management of Construction Projects is the right planning. In order to talk about planning in a project;
- That all responsible and teams in that construction site act by taking their daily or weekly work orders from the CPM program used.
-It should be considered that they regularly update the CPM program with the realization information of the works carried out and that all construction movements are carried out in line with this planning.
If we say that 10 points will be given to a Work Program with the required detail, from the year I started my career in 1972 to this day; I have not seen a Business Program in detail that can get 5 out of 10 points.
As I mentioned in a statement I gave in 2009,
1-Creating Work Orders, thus ensuring the discipline of manufacturing follow-up
2-Determining the resource requirement lists. Arranging material purchasing lists based on time, making payment plans
3-Determining workforce needs, making team optimizations
4-Determining the budget income and expense values and cash flow reports on the time scale
5-In order to provide functions such as making company or subcontractor progress payments, if you cannot send the data that should be in the work program in the necessary detail, you cannot provide these 5 items that I mentioned above.
A "Work Program" that doesn't enable you to do these things is garbage.
In order for you to do the work in these 5 items correctly, Primavera or similar work program must be able to work in integration with a "Sectoral ERP" developed for construction industry applications.
In the attached videos, I will explain this by visualizing what I have said.
The first video is an example of the details of the activities to take place in Primavera due to the importance of planning.
001- Video about the details that should be included in the Work Program
What is the expected level of detail of data in Primavera work schedule