Tracking, Change & Delay Management MS Project for Beginners File Organization Lesson #11

In this video I go over updating, revising, adding changes and how to best organize your project history files so that you can easily go to any update, recovery, or change order and find the information you need regarding the history of your project. This offers great help for delay management.

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Tom Stephenson is a national award-winning professor (George Brown College, University of Toronto) and best-selling author whose background in education spans nearly three decades. His diverse teaching disciplines include construction project management, business management, human resource management, architecture, carpentry, and brick and stone masonry. As a dual-professional, Tom is called upon by industry leaders to translate knowledge, reinvigorate corporate culture, and inspire innovation in emerging and established companies across Canada. Before breaking into the academic realm, Tom acquired more than a decade of practical project-management experience, operating a mid-sized Toronto-based general contracting firm. He is also the author of the newly released Planning, Scheduling, and Control of Construction Projects with American Technical Publishers and the four best-selling editions of Understanding Construction Drawings for Housing and Small Buildings with Nelson Publishing Canada. Tom most recently received the Toronto Construction Association’s 2020 Chancellor’s Award for “helping his peers become more ethical, knowledgeable and professional.” A champion of change management, Tom takes pride in helping students and businesses navigate uncharted territories, take calculated risks and rise above the status quo. Some of the companies he’s worked with include Mattamy Homes, EllisDon, BIRD Construction, MCA, Maple Reinders, and Tucker HiRise, University of Toronto Project Managers.

[EhsanTeymouri-kcml]

I am learning more and more on a daily basis by watching Prof. Stephenson's valuable videos on the MS project. I can't say how clear and helpful these videos are, and you can learn about project management, especially in construction, by following these videos.
Thank you Prof. Stephenson

[andrewcook]

Just found your channel while searching for help... I'll be starting back at the beginning of your lessons. thank you

[warrenandreanagonou]

Hello Sir, again thank you for this lifesavings explanations on tracking and file organization protocol. I'm a professional scheduler and your channel has always been a great source of inspiration for me. Could you please share with us an sample of the narrative? It would be appreciatied. Thank you for everything.

[muhammadadeel]

Thanks from Pakistan. Your efforts mean a lot for beginners like me.

[AhmedMIbrahim]

Very Simple to follow and understand, thanks a lot

[InsideMyWall]

Really enjoy all your videos. Very informative. Can you kindly make a series on how to properly file an EOT claim by considering all the delays resulting out of frequent drawing changes, considering RFIs, late approvals etc etc.

[Mostafa]

Thank you so much Sir Mr. Tom .
Rich info indeed .

[phemmy]

I just stumbled on your channel today, in fact you are doing great, please keep it up

[victor-mihailpopescu]

great video. I like your explanations and examples. Thank you!

[femidunmoye]

Your videos are amazing, so informative, and easy to understand. Thank you

[blacky]

Thanks for this very thorough series of how to get going in MS Project. Really useful tips and tricks and very well explained. One question is still remaining and I hope you can help answer it.

When tracking changes or as in your video change orders, they are not linked to the master schedule baseline. Once those changes are scheduled in, we save it under update and/or recovery, how should we include them into let's say next month's update? Because they are missing out from the master schedule baseline.

Do we create a secondary baseline on the given task only or do we simply leave them out? I reckon variance and cost tracking for those changes will not be possible without any baselining. Thanks very much upfront for your answer!

[inhinyerosibiltv]

Great Video! Learned alot! I just want to ask what's the difference of UPDATE and RECOVERY in the file names that you're making?

[northof]

Hi Tom, as and example, when you add a new activity in Microsoft Project after the baseline was set, like a month ago, then when comparing baseline vs. actual, you get NA in the baseline column. So then, what are we comparing variance with? I get into this situation a lot and want to know if there is another way of handling this.

[danboudreau]

Excellent content! I am curious of your thoughts on MS project for the web? VS project online? Thank you

[trevorstrain]

A great video, I like the process shown. If the planned start and end date changes on a task in the future would that be changed in the start and finish columns?