From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling

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Order activities from the WBS

Order activities from the WBS

From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling

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Order activities from the WBS

- Once I've defined and listed all of my activities which includes construction activities as well as any procurement and management activities I need on the schedule, it's time to order the activities, basically sequence them. It sounds easy, but ordering these activities is not necessarily as straightforward as it might seem. For each activity you'll need to determine which activities must precede it, which activities must follow it, and which activities can be done simultaneously with it. Remember at the beginning of the course when I talked about history and the fact that some of the first computers ever built were used to figure out scheduling? Maybe now you can start to see why. This does get complicated, especially if you have hundreds of activities, which is really common on a construction project. Our example here of a tennis court construction has a fairly small scope of work, and we already have dozens of activities. But don't panic, I'll keep this as straightforward as…

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