If your schedule has too much detail, you’re likely to end up completely overwhelmed in trying to maintain it, at peril to the project. You become a data-entry clerk, not a project controller. Keeping up with updates and changes takes all of your time. Then there is no time for assessing, forecasting and analyzing project performance.
I’ve invited Dr. Saleh Mubarak, author of Construction Project Scheduling and Control, to weigh-in on this question in this month’s Ask PlanAcademy video.
