Plans and Change Orders

The schedule revision is a fundamental process in schedule management and control that should be clarified in the contract scheduling specification plans. [5] It is beneficial for the reviewer to identify these plans as they will help him/her to have a better understanding of the process and what should be included in the schedule updates. Schedules that are not updated are not valuable to the project due to their inaccuracy; they do not reflect actual and ongoing work. Likewise, if the owners fail to approve change orders on time, this can affect schedules’ reliability and accuracy since they will not include changes and will not reflect what is actually occurring with the project. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT CHANGE ORDERS CAN BE BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE. FOR EXAMPLE, THE PROJECT TEAM SHOULD BE CONSTANTLY ENCOURAGED TO FIND TIME SAVINGS IDEAS. [8] These are some key elements in schedule management and control that the reviewer should identify: “frequency of progress status updates, method of reporting impacts and/or delays, incorporation of change orders, and level of detail to be reported.” [5, p.