I am working as a Project Control/ Planning Engineer for an EPC Project.
Data:
The Project comprises of multi-discipline works. Say Architectural, Structural Mechanical and Electrical Works. In my WBS for Engineering Works, I am organizing the project in the following order:
Level 1. Project
Level 2. Discipline
Level 3. Drawings
Each activity in the schedule represents a Drawing. And each drawing has start and finish dates defined and Man-hours / resources allocated to it.
I prepared the baseline schedule and tracking it with respect to the Actual Schedule on a weekly basis.
Question:
The problem begins now. After a few weeks, the drawing list is being revised due to some reasons. This will result in the addition / deletion of the activities. But the total Budget for the Project is fixed. It will not change even there is an addition/ deletion in the drawing list.
Now my question is how to track the Actuals with respect to the Baseline when there is a change in the drawing list and when the Total Budget being the same. Whether I have to change the baseline, redistribute the Budgets each time there is a change and track? Is this the solution to this problem? If there is some alternate to it, please guide me. It is causing me lot of inconvenience. Hope the experts will help me in this regard.
Thanks.
Imam Baig
Planning Engineer
Data:
The Project comprises of multi-discipline works. Say Architectural, Structural Mechanical and Electrical Works. In my WBS for Engineering Works, I am organizing the project in the following order:
Level 1. Project
Level 2. Discipline
Level 3. Drawings
Each activity in the schedule represents a Drawing. And each drawing has start and finish dates defined and Man-hours / resources allocated to it.
I prepared the baseline schedule and tracking it with respect to the Actual Schedule on a weekly basis.
Question:
The problem begins now. After a few weeks, the drawing list is being revised due to some reasons. This will result in the addition / deletion of the activities. But the total Budget for the Project is fixed. It will not change even there is an addition/ deletion in the drawing list.
Now my question is how to track the Actuals with respect to the Baseline when there is a change in the drawing list and when the Total Budget being the same. Whether I have to change the baseline, redistribute the Budgets each time there is a change and track? Is this the solution to this problem? If there is some alternate to it, please guide me. It is causing me lot of inconvenience. Hope the experts will help me in this regard.
Thanks.
Imam Baig
Planning Engineer