A New, Visual,
Planning-Centric Process for Network-Based
Planning and Scheduling
PMA developed this intuitive
Graphical Planning 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.
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. It allows forward and backward
activity definition and sequencing using
stakeholders’ planned dates, while continuously
refreshing floats through its scheduling
algorithm. Further, GPM fundamentally alters CPM
by allowing evolving dates, floats, resource
profiles, and crash-cost curves to impact
activity definition and sequencing. This results
in the creation of an optimized network schedule
in the shortest possible time.
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