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14th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction - Santiago, Chile - 2006

Phase Planning Today

Steve Knapp¹, Roberto Charron² & Gregory Howell³

¹Project Coach, Lean Project Consulting, 625 Main St. 1B, Louisville, CO 80027, [email protected], Phone 303-717-0952
²Project Coach, Lean Project Consulting, 625 Main St. 1B, Louisville, CO 80027, [email protected], Phone 786-287-2335
³Principal, Lean Project Consulting, 625 Main St. 1B, Louisville, CO 80027, [email protected], Phone 303-408-1098

Abstract

Since the publication of White Paper #7 “Phase Scheduling” (Ballard 2000), work on many projects has been planned with this technique by teams of varying configuration. Many teams have adapted their own approach to developing a “phase schedule”, in some cases called a “reverse phase schedule” or a “pull phase schedule”. During these planning sessions, ideas have been put in practice that improve on the original scheme and increase the benefits of producing a phase schedule. Perhaps the most significant being the conversations that the teams pursue during the exercise. This paper will briefly describe the authors’ current approach to and practices for preparing phase schedules and how this has become, in actuality, phase planning. It will then describe how phase planning produces the project schedule as traditionally understood, and more importantly designs the network of commitments necessary to deliver each project milestone, and how understanding and using the network of commitments improves project performance.

Keywords

Phase Planning, scheduling

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