SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS

One of the primary criteria for project success is the completion of the project within the sanctioned project completion date. To achieve this, a structured methodology is necessary to manage the schedule comprising the planning and controlling of the schedule.

Project Schedule Management is a Project Management discipline that is deeply integrated with other facets of the project such as Project Cost Management, Project Financing and Risk Management.

1.   The Purpose of Schedule Management
  1.1    Application of Schedule Management in the various Project Phases
  2.1    Who does Schedule Management?

2.   Modelling the Project
  2.1    Planning the Project (the project objectives, deliverables, constraints)
  2.2    Work Breakdown Structure
  2.3    Duration Estimation
  2.4    Activity Scheduling Relationships
  2.5    Considerations when building the project model

3.   Measuring Progress
  3.1    Establishing Weightages
  3.2    Measurement metrics

4.   Special Consideration
  4.1    Probabilistic Schedule Analysis
  4.2    Formulation of the Planning Package


BIODATA

Ir. Faizal A. Sanusi has served the Project Management Technical Division in IEM since 2005, including as its Chairman in 2012.

He has a BSc in Civil Engineering from the George Washington University, USA in 1988 and an MBA from Open University, Malaysia in 2005.
His engineering and project management experience spans across the oil & gas and building industry since he began his career 30 years ago. In his career, he has performed various roles ranging from design engineer, resident engineer, project engineer and project manager for a myriad of engineering projects – civil Infrastructure works, commercial buildings including an intelligent office institutional building, gas processing plants, offshore gas pipeline installations and offshore gas producing platforms. He also challenged himself as an entrepreneur in the business of facilities management for oil and gas on-shore installations and has provided training in various project management topics to the Royal Malaysian Navy and private commercial property developers.

Some of his notable career highlights as follows:
 Project Advisor and Project Services Manager for  Oil & Gas Exploration & Production MNCs
 Project Services Division Head for a local Offshore Oil & Gas Service Provider
 Project Manager for the Malaysian Securities Commission 4 star intelligent building project
 Director of a local Facilities Management company overseeing Oil & Gas O&M projects.