International Roundup, Vol 18, No 1

Co-ordinating multi-plans within a large scale project

Chandika Diran Wickramatillake

Abstract

A large scale project requires several sub-level time plans to be managed effectively, in order to control costs and achieve delivery targets. Although various planning tools exist for project scheduling, there is still an opportunity to improve on the methods used for successful project plan co-ordination; particularly when there are many large independent execution team plans which report to the master schedule. In such instances, even where a project-wide work breakdown structure is used to roll-up and report progress, critical path analysis becomes inaccurate as the complicated logic in sub-level plans are not reflected within the Master schedule. The main effort of this work is to discuss issues relating to multi-plan management methods, in a view to improve project co-ordination. Methods of controlling deliverables between the master schedule, group plans and team execution plans are reported. The work here relates to practical issues which are being faced during the construction of the complex £200 million London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 Baggage Handling System project.

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