Henry,
I just finished a turnaround with just over 6000 activities. It was not the schedule that was hard to keep up with. My client had just gotten P3e on there site and someone had commited every report they could think of to be delivered during the turnaround. Each report had to be published, printed to pdf and emailed to different managers. There were several layouts that had to be published, printed to pdf and mailed to managers. I was also required to attend 2 meetings a day. Progress was done twice a day.

You see what I’m getting at? I am now building a schedule that is expected to reach 25,000 activities. I have a young scheduler that will help with updates.

I found out that the schedule was the easy part, it was all the other things that kept me behind. This time I am going to try and control the number of reports and layouts that I run each shift. (I had no control before.) My plans are to publish the project and or the reports and send everyone a link to the folder that it is published to.

Just don’t forget all the other things that a scheduler may be asked to do during the turnaround or project you have coming up.

And Again Good Luck!

David

my last was 25000, built and updated daily by 2 of us

Takes 2 people about 1 1/2 hours a day to do the update (roughly 6-800 activities per day) once progress has been collected.

so 3-4000 shouldn’t be a major challenge.

however, think about your progress gathering system. This is what takes the time if it’s not thought out fully. Data entry is quick once the data is there.