Capability
Short-Term Planning
Convert the live CPM into look-aheads and work-front priorities the field can use this week and next, without creating a second schedule.
C02 — The problem
The technical problem
Sites often run a whiteboard sequence that has no relationship to the CPM. Crews are productive on work that is not driving completion, while the critical path waits on access or information.
Short-Term Planning is construction-management work: pull near-term activities from the live programme, expose constraints, and set work-front priorities for the coming weeks. It is not recovery of the whole remaining programme and not period progress measurement for the controls report.
C03 — Engagement
When this capability is needed
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Weekly / look-ahead cycle
The field needs a plan that still honours the CPM.
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Work-front congestion
Several crews and only some available work.
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After an update
Remaining logic changed and the site diary has not.
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Interface weeks
Handovers in the near term will move the path if they slip.
C04 — Scope / method
How the work is approached
Near-term look-aheads, work-front availability, and constraint removal for a defined window (typically 2–6 weeks). Whole-project recovery and commissioning-closeout programmes are separate capabilities.
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Slice the live CPM
Activities inside the look-ahead window, including predecessors that gate them.
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Confirm work-front availability
Access, information, materials, and permits as constraints.
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Prioritise against the driving path
Near-term work that protects completion, not only busy work.
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Issue the look-ahead
A plan the field meeting can follow.
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Feed constraints back
Items the planner and commercial team must act on.
C05 — Outputs
Typical deliverables
| Output | What it contains |
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| Look-ahead schedule | Near-term activities from the live CPM. |
| Work-front / constraint list | What is available and what is blocking. |
| Weekly priority note | What must happen this cycle to protect the path. |
| Feedback to the update | Constraints that belong in the programme file. |
C06 — Decision value
What this work is used to decide
Which near-term work to resource, which constraints to escalate, and whether the site plan still matches the live path. It does not re-baseline the project.
C08 — Project environments
Relevant project environments
C09 — Who we support
Who commonly needs this capability
C10 — Boundaries
Important distinctions
Value Construction does not claim the contractor’s statutory safety or quality duty. Short-term planning coordinates sequence against the live programme.
C11 — Next step
Discuss your project
If this is the technical problem you are facing, talk to Value Construction about the work, the records required, and what you would receive. Outcomes are not guaranteed.