I am starting to think that what makes a great schedule is what you don't put in it - what should you leave out? for example:
P6 schedule make a bad, redundant Submittals log (why do it twice) P6 should just have the dates from the log that effect deliverables. (NOT SAYING DON'T HAVE A SUMMARY ACTIVITY(S) FOR A SUBMITTAL - BUT P6 IS NOT GOOD A PARTIAL APPROVALS & NUANCE ETC LIKE EXCEL)
P6 is not a meeting calendar: meetings change quite often and are not logic driven, they are "when everyone has a free time slot" driven - only inlcude them if they drive a deliverable
What would you leave out?
Been on too many jobs that the schedule becomes too big for the resources to update it "when the job gets busy" - how many can you update it. I think I can put in about 15-20 new activities a day, I can update about 30-40 a day.
What about you?
(that is based on working for about 25 companies, about 200 jobs in a wide variety. If i worked at worked at 1 job for 30 years it would be higher)