Assalamualaikum w.b.t/لسَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُl
dan Salam Sejahtera..
First of all, I would like to thanks our beloved lecturer , DR.Rozana as they taught and guided us to explore and understand the knowledge related to Construction And Project Management.
My first impression and in my thinking, I was afraid and feel worried with this subject. It seems that many professional schedulers prefer the functionality of MS Project.
From this workshop, it really useful for me because I have get experience using project management principles, methodologies, and tools. I have provided project oversight and created project plans to manage and control projects throughout their lifecycle, including preparing, justifying, and/or administering the budget for an assigned program area that is complex and changing rapidly. I have provided guidance/training to other staff on effective use of Microsoft Project to assist in project management.
We in the team included members from a variety of professional skill and have difference experience. By that we learn more from each other, sharing knowledge and experience and so on. Other than that, I have been feeling the real project with responsibility for carrying out one or more projects or initiatives. These projects required me to plan and direct the work, maintain the schedule, report progress, and assure the quality of the work performed.
Experience tracking schedules and monitoring project action items for multiple projects that have strict deadlines to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget. Besides that, I have assisted in planning, managing, and controlling projects to ensure successful outcomes. I have also conducted and documented assessments to ensure that project phases and deadlines were met.
MS Project integrate and exchange data well with our Oracle based project controls database. I personally agree that MS Project can plan projects efficiently and reliably with it. From what I have learn from workshop at Tanjung Piai, MS Project can do everything that we need:
-Establishing a logic linked activity network
- Assigning durations and budget work hours to each activity
-Microsoft Project give us two option whether we want to have output in term of early start or late finish first. After that, we can have the Gantt Chart.
- PERT analysis to establish optimistic, likely and pessimistic schedules
- Assigning and leveling resources
- Establishing a baseline schedule and budget
- Establishing the critical path
- Entering earned man-hours and actual costs
- Monitoring and analyzing progress against the baseline
- Performing earned value analysis
- Forecasting completion dates and costs
- Automatically re-scheduling incomplete work to beyond the status date
- Re-baselining and creating interim plans (up to 11 baselines are available)