Hi All (and especially Zoltan! Thanks for your help in the past!)
We were going through a schedule rebaseline with the customer and also including suppliers who were delivering late to key milestones and then COVID-19 hit. We are still progressing with the tebasine of the the program but we have been informed that we cannot re-forecast our own resource due to us working (or attempting to work!) at BAU and until there is further central and government guidance which will affect how the organisation carries on in the future of a COVID world. However, in rebaseling our suppliers, who were already late, are also now claiming delays due to COVID and these are being requested to be included in the Re-Planning.
This is made difficult in that we were in the process of re-baselining the program when the Covid lockdown already occurred here in the UK and as we suspect, their delays and new dates will likely be inclusive and using the lockdown as a smokescreen for poor performance and schedule slippage. Due to contractual wranglings, we don’t have the Level 1, ground level, contractor schedule detailing work rate and working hours only ROC and start and completion dates against Work packages where we have assigned budgetary value.
What would you suggest We do in this situation?
Is there a way to differentiate between Covid and performance delay in this time period and through this available supplier data to enable us to track, incorporate, interrogate and then integrate and forecast where they are slipping?
How would you Mark this up (project code for Covid affected activities? A Covid and non Covid baseline?) in P6 - any P6 and scheduler related recommendations surrounding scheduling in a time of shutdowns, lockdowns, turnarounds, reduced hours and remote working!?
Interested to know how other Schedulers would deal with this situation and how they are reflecting these COVID slips and Delays in their schedule?
Thank you very much again for helping me out everyone :)