Ensuring that Work Activities and Resources Meet Project Work Requirements in the Workplace

1. Identify major activities, determine the resources needed from the information available and prepare draft work programmes and schedules.

1.4 Explain ways that allows major work activities to be identified.

1.5 Explain how needed resources can be determined from the information available.

1.6 Explain how draft programmes and schedules can be prepared and why they need to be prepared.

2. Evaluate alternative methods, resources and systems in order to select the best solution to meet project requirements.

2.2 Evaluate findings of production methods, resources and system examinations to identify alternative methods, resources and systems.

2.3 Explain ways that can evaluate alternative work methods, resources and systems.

2.4 Describe how the best solutions to meet project requirements can be selected.

2.5 Describe the factors that determine project requirements.

3. Obtain clarification and advice where the resources needed are not available.

3.2 Explain how clarification and advice can be obtained when the resources needed are not available, and who with.

4. Analyse the activities against project requirements and the requirements of external factors.

4.4 Describe ways that external factors can be identified and considered.

4.5 Explain how work activities can be analysed against external factors.

5. Determine how long each activity will take, identify activities which influence each other and sequence them logically and realistically so that they make the best use of the resources available.

5.4 Describe how durations of programmes and schedules can be calculated.

5.5 Explain how to identify work activities that can influence each other.

5.6 Explain methods that can make best use of resources when sequencing activities logically and realistically.

6. Ensure the production of detailed programmes and schedules of planned activities which are consistent with the complexity of the project.

6.2 Explain how the production of detailed programmes and schedules are ensured.

6.3 Explain methods that ensure programmes and schedules of planned activities are consistent with the complexity of the project.

7. Develop a system to monitor the works programmes and schedules, implement it and use the results to improve production and planning.

7.4 Explain how systems can be developed that monitor works programmes and schedules.

7.5 Explain how systems for monitoring works programmes and schedules can be developed.

7.6 Explain ways that systems for monitoring works programmes and schedules can be implemented.

7.7 Explain how the using of monitoring results of work programmes and schedules can improve production and planning.

8.    Identify alterations to the works programmes and schedules to ensure they will meet changed circumstances

8.4 Explain how alterations to works programmes and schedules can be identified.

8.5 Describe ways of ensuring that alterations to work programmes and schedules meet changed circumstances