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Chapter 4
Planning and Scheduling
Review Questions:
1. What is the difference between scheduling and planning?
2. Which members of the construction team provide input to the project plan?
3. How many items should be included in the work breakdown structure?
4. What is the difference between a bar chart schedule and a network diagram?
5. Who should develop a three-week schedule, and why them?
6. What is the difference between updating the schedule and using it to monitor progress?
7. Who indicates progress on the schedule? When should it be done?
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8. Why should contractors avoid revising and re-issuing the schedule?
9. Are schedules contract documents?
10. Why do project managers resist developing cash flow curves?
11. Should a cash flow curve always be a perfect bell-shaped curve?
12. When does day one of a contract schedule occur?
13. How many activities should be on the project schedule?
14. How does the eighty – twenty rule apply to developing schedules?
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15. When is it appropriate to revise the schedule?
16. How is an as-built schedule developed, and when should it be developed?
17. Why does the client’s cash flow curve take a slight turn up at the end of the project?
