How to Get Earned Value/Progress of Each Activity to Overall Project

Once you’ve developed planned value data, the next step is to calculate earned value from the lowest activities to track overall project progress. To measure project progress, list the activities (including WBS) with budgeted hours or cost.

See the picture below to understand how you can track the overall progress of the various disciplines – piping and structure.

Develop A Progress S Curve That Will Make You An Expert – Part 4

You may think creating progress s curve for a project that involved multiple disciplines sounds overwhelming, but with the steps by steps tutorial, it couldn’t be easier. Learn how you can set up the progress S Curve in a few minutes.

Once all activities have been identified and assigned value ̶ budgeted cost or hours and a milestone system established, getting planned values, earned values and overall progress (percent completion) is a straightforward task. So, follow the five steps process below.

How To Develop A Progress S Curve That Will Make You An Expert – Part 3

In Part 2, I have shared the first three tips of STEP 1, S Curvelogy technique - determining the appropriate time scale interval, evaluating percent complete and the basis of S curve data whether to use hours, cost or weighting to get planned and earned value.

Once you went through this POST, you would learn how to get the Planned/Earned Value and determine Percent Complete which are foundation steps in developing Progress S Curve.

To achieve that, try to answer the last two questions of S Curvelogy technique,

How to Develop Procurement Progress Calculation Sheet Using Excel

In EPC project, procurement progress calculation sheet is required to monitor the procurement status. Once the procurement phase commences, the status is tracked and monitored closely. Followings are a guide to develop and update procurement progress data.

Steps to develop Procurement Progress Data
1) Understand the terms and confirm procurement work steps and weight factors for equipment work category

• Not Yet Start -0%
• Inquiry Issued to Bidders -10%
• Tender Evaluation and Client Approval -5%
• Purchase Order Placement to Vendor -10%
• Received Key Vendor Drawings -5%
• Approved Key Vendor Drawings -5%
• Fabrication (50%)
• Final Inspection Finished -5%
• Ex-Work -5%
• Delivery at Site -5%

Basic concept of civil/structure engineering work flow for schedule development

The basic concept of engineering work flow is essential to know developing engineering schedule. Once you have done adding activities and linking logically, you have done 70% of schedule development. Below diagram shows the linkages of civil/structure deliverables for EPC project. The in puts of civil design calculation sheets are specifications and standard,  mechanical equipment loading data and structure loading data . Based on design calculation result, piling design documents are produced. The predecessor of underground composite drawing is information for underground piping, foundation information.

Concept of Engineering Work Flow for Process,Mechanical and Piping Engineeirng

The concept of engineering work flow is required to understand for someone who involved in the activity sequencing. This concept is applied when the EPC level 3 schedule is developed. The process of engineering work to produce the required deliverables depends on not only within the functional discipline itself but also among the process, mechanical and piping engineering functions. The below net work diagram shows the links among the process, mechanical and piping engineering deliverables for oil, gas and petrochemical project.

The diagram shows the input of process/utility engineering flow scheme (PEFS/UEFS) drawing is the process flow scheme or process flow diagram (PFD) and process study.The input of engineering data requisition sheet for mechanical equipment is the process data sheet consist of fluid properties, temperature and pressure rating. The requisition for equipments can be prepared when the specification and process data sheets are available.

Activities and Logical sequence for electrical and instrumentation engineering

It is important to know the activities and dependencies of engineering deliverables for engineer who establishes a project plan. The project duration would be different if you don't know how the activities are sequenced logically. In oil and gas project, the production sequence of electrical and instrumentation drawings,documents and field materials are logically linked as shown in figure below.

Progress Calculation Procedure for Engineering

Normally in an EPC project, progress calculation procedure for engineering deliverables is developed and used to monitor project performance against man hour spent. When working with progress calculation, you should know the level of reporting. In a typical project, engineering progress is measured as level 2 (phase wise) and level 3 (engineering discipline wise) and level 4 (document wise). Refer to the following procedure to calculate engineering progress,

1) Engineering progress for each document (Level 4) = the sum of the product of weight factor for each work step and engineering progress for each work step

2) Engineering progress for each discipline (level 3) = the sum of the product of weight factor for each document and engineering progress for each document

3) Calculate total engineering progress (level 2) = the sum of the product of weight factor for each discipline and engineering progress for each discipline