A New, Visual,
Planning-Centric Process for Network-Based
Planning and Scheduling
PMA developed this intuitive
Graphical Path Method™ (GPM®) for use in our
network-based planning and scheduling services.
GPM is a simplified
planning and scheduling method, with the
emphasis on planning. It allows project
managers, superintendents, key subcontractors
and other stakeholders to collaboratively, in
one session, network a project by graphically
positioning activities on a time scale, using a
variety of simple and intuitive logic ties to
convey activity relationships.
Benefits of GPM:
- Emphasizes
experienced human judgment and collaboration in
project planning instead of machine calculations
by using new networking concepts with a
mathematical basis for relational logic.
- Allows forward and
backward activity definition and sequencing
using stakeholders’ planned dates, while
continuously refreshing floats through its
scheduling algorithm.
- Fundamentally alters CPM
by allowing evolving dates, floats, resource
profiles, and crash-cost curves to impact
activity definition and sequencing.
- Creation of an
optimized network schedule in the shortest
possible time.
GPM introduces the Logic Diagramming Method™
(LDM), used in tandem, GPM and LDM
provide the simplest possible network-based
process that is efficient, inexpensive and
intuitive. As the evolving schedule nears full
development, the planner and key stakeholders
are able to resolve resource constraints,
accomplish schedule recovery, look for optimal
date scenarios and otherwise quickly rework the
initial draft plan visually without having to
rely on the black box calculations performed by
more traditional scheduling applications.
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