Week 1 Primavera Sample Project for Discussion -Construction Works At Camp

Posted by Hany Ismail, MSC, PMP
Categories Uncategorized
Date September 17, 2013
Comments 28 comments

Project description: the project scope is consists of 4 facilities, facility no. 0 which is site works and external works (telephone, street lighting and connecting L.V cables to feed the building and other facilities), facility no. 1 which is dinning hall, facility no. 3 which is Artificial Grass football playground and facility no. 4 which is multipurpose sports field (rubber flooring playground) and finally test and commissioning of all the project.

This is an open discussion about the attached primavera schedule, This schedule submitted from our site member and we need to help improving the quality of the time schedules as we discuss the mistakes and the ways to make such schedule looks better.

Download the schedule from the following link:

Download primavera files

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I will add one comment and leave other comments for you

My comment: There are no procurement and delivery section for materials, This is very important section and should be well defined.

Now your turn, what are your comments ?

If you want to share your sample project schedule for discussion, send it to me as per the following:

1- Project Name and good description to allow us to understand your project to comment on it.

2- Project XER File

3- Project PDF File

4- Send it to [email protected]

Hany Ismail, MSC, PMP

Hany Ismael is the founder and CEO of Planning Engineer Est. in Egypt. He has started his career back in 2003 as a site engineer, technical office engineer, planning engineer, planning manager, and finally planning department manager where he has been involved in several mega construction projects in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. In 2016, he established his own company in Egypt “Planning Engineer Est.” Hany gained his MSc degree in project management from Liverpool University-UK 2013-2016, PMP certified from PMI-USA 2010, and BSc Civil Engineer Tanta University-Egypt 2003. Hany provided more than 3,500 hours of planning and project management training on his website planningengineer.net, YouTube channel, and offline courses since 2011. He enjoys teaching project management in simple and practical way, and he developed several planning tools, techniques and courses.

28 Comments

Ferdi Uy

September 17, 2013

Hi. The rar file is corrupted. is it the xer file?

Ferdi Uy

September 17, 2013

There is no local authority related item to obtain electricity, telephone, civil defence, and municipality approval which is an important item in the project

Ibrahim Alrabib

September 17, 2013

The file is corrupted…

Zeyad Marachi

September 18, 2013

The rar file 12058.rar is is corrupted, unable to open it

Tu Nguyen

September 18, 2013

12058.rar is broken!

Zeyad Marachi

September 18, 2013

First we need the xer file of the project, which we couldn’t download, it says its corrupt!
Then we can put a plan to estimate how good is the schedule, we should focus on how it was built, organized, linked and how it was scheduled, then a look at resource and cost management.
To achieve that we should have a look (if possible) at project’s documentation, then dates, duration and deadlines, WBS structure, Activities types, project calendars, measure Milestones, Find open ended relationships, find leads and lags, check constraints and out of sequence activities. Critical Path and total float, resource assignments, find resource over-allocation, check cost loading, and earned value.

Muhammad Azeem

September 18, 2013

The file is corrupted

Ghulam Rasool Kashmiri

September 18, 2013

Yeh kis ka banaya hai bhai

Zeyad Marachi

September 19, 2013

Thank you for your mail, I did download both files , the pdf one opens and is OK, the other 12058.rar, I'm not able to open it as its giving that its damaged, so would you please check it once again, only the pdf file is not enough to comment on the schedule, Thanks.

Magdy Tolba

September 19, 2013

the file 12058.rar is corrupted

Saqib Paracha

September 19, 2013

Call for Admin….. many people would like to add to this great exercise… but admin of this websites seems to be busy as we didn't see any response to many of the fellows comments that the XER file is corrupted. Fankely speeking good comments could not be made on the schedule viability as long as XER file is not available. We need Admin to jump in and reattach the XER file as it si corrupted.

Further to the above my suggestion for the comments are;

1) In order to make sequential comments or step by step comments we should choose one topic and stick to that for commenting. as long as that topic is exhausted and fully understand the problems in the schedule related to that perticular topics we will move to another area of schedule validation.

my Openion for sequential comments are
1) The Schedule Capture all activities or not (like the Admin commented that the Schedule is lacking with procurement activities, WBS should be product oriented, Represent activities of the Engineer and Client etc.)
2) sequencing Activities (e.g Network should be complete, mazimise use of FS logic and minimize/no use of SF logic, Constraint, Lags/Leads, etc)
3) resource Allocation
4) Valid Duration
5) Validitiy of Critical Path
6) Reasonable Total Float etc.

Planning Engineer

September 19, 2013