Planning a Complex Project–An Under Appreciated Effort

摘要

Planning a complex project is one of the most under appreciated efforts in the construction industry today. Based on the experience in the dispute resolution industry, of this paper’s authors, it is often a poorly executed element of a project. One of the main reasons for this is that many organizations do not understand the true value of a well devised plan and consequently do not spend the effort required to make a good plan. Many organizations have forgotten “how” to plan a project. A project manager sitting down in his/her office with a person that knows how to work Primavera or Microsoft Project and making a schedule is not truly planning. This approach rarely works. More often than not, it produces a schedule that the project team ignores because of it being inaccurate and this shallow process does not promote ownership of the schedule. This paper will attempt to explain to the reader how to plan a complex project.