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- Title
Assessing Contractor Schedules in Oman against the GAO's Scheduling Best Practice Guide.
- Authors
Al Barrami, Hassan
- Abstract
Delay in construction projects due to scheduling is considered one of the most common problems causing a mass of negative effects on the project and its participating parties. The purpose of this paper is to assess contractor schedules in Oman against the GAO's Scheduling Best Practices and to find out the 20% causes of 80% of scheduling problems according to Pareto Chart. In this paper 9 schedules from local contractor analyzed and compared to the 10 best practices listed in GAO Schedule Assessment Guide. Pareto Chart technique applied and found out that schedules have bad weakness in assigning resources to all activities. List of recommendations given according to GAO's Scheduling Best Practices to come over this problem.
- Subjects
OMAN; CONTRACTORS; UNITED States. Government Accountability Office; WORKING hours; TIME management
- Publication
PM World Journal, 2014, Vol 3, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
2330-4480
- Publication type
Article