Have worked since 1990, and have supported clients who had requirements for CPM scheduling and no personnel who had ever heard of CPM scheduling. That environment has changed through the years, and now I'm supporting clients who have rigorous CPM specifications that I help them to acheive.
I've been involved in commercial building, highway work, waste-water treatment and piping projects, school district expansion projects and some experience in military work. I've seen a lot of different approaches to scheduling by people who mis-understand good CPM scheduling practices, and have been an advisor to CM firms evaluating schedule submissions.
I've worked to support the baseline implementation, updating procedures, and supported claims review for projects that didn't finish on time.
A lot of my work is done by developing activities, coding and cost-loading in spreadsheets turning around fairly detailed schedules expeditiously.
I used to be a P3, SureTrak and P6 instructor for a local Primavera dealer. I had the advantage of bringing to my construction clients Primavera's default usages for features, as they've introduced them, but then brought real life field experiences into the Primavera classroom; telling why the software does what it does in real life. I've been also, for the last 15 years, a guest speaker for the introductory class in UCLA's Construction Management certificate program, and have been told that my lecture has described in one night CPM scheduling in a way that is amusing, informative and durable as the students go on to future careers in construction management.