Replanning x Rescheduling a Project

In this podcast, Ricardo Vargas discusses the main differences between replanning and rescheduling a project. Although both have as their objective to apply the decisions of the change control process, the approach and scope of changes in each case are significantly different.

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Hello everybody welcome to the five minutes PM podcast today. I like to discuss the difference between Replanning and Rescheduling for some reasons are a lot of people thinks that they are cinnamons. They aren't the same thing, and this is not true. They are very much related, but they are different things. First, they are related they're related because you know, both of them they're our intent is to solve a problem, basically, a scheduling problem or a cost problem in there.

The scheduling is this specifically the problem with that lions with Target's with milestones, So the Rescheduling issue or crying to reprogram the work the future works. So what I do, okay. If I didn't accomplish what I need to do up to now, now I need to reprogram reschedule the future work to start next week to start in 10 days. And this is that the easiest way to rethink about the future, but the problem's that there is one price.

And usually at one big price to pay a very, very expensive In almost 100% of the cases does, will delay the Finnish date of the Project because usually the Rescheduling will affect the tasks in the critical path. And the tax is in the critical path day are tighter to the final deadline of the project. So usually it's very, very noodle to reschedule tasks with big slacks, big floats that will not impact.

Usually the critical tasks are the tasks where a face problems in the order hand, what does Replanning Replanning is a bowl of, and beyond Rescheduling root planing is basally to reveal the, a plan to review the scope, to reveal the scandal, to reveal the cost, to review risks, procurement, all the nine areas of the PMBOK guide and with the PMBOK 50 Diishan with the 10 areas is to reveal everything.

It's not only to rescale the work so that the Rescheduling it's based on a subset of the Replanning process, the Replanning process is to rethink all of the plants to revisit it, the scope, and C is this the right scope? Do I need to change this, the scope to do something different? Is this the right cost structure, or do I need to reveal my budget? Do I need to reveal my risk management approach? So it's much more than just postpone tasks, so which to rethink, and usually one of this Replanning, it's a new base line that must be approved.

So what were you we do based on this, we do some changes in the scope, do some changes and the cost Aming to deliver the results of that we need to deliver and bays it on that we will prepare a new base line that will be approved at, by the change control board or by the sponsor by the client. And usually it's very important to others. I address this is not a podcast. The problem have the baseline is that usually the new baseline must also inform with the pros a charter, because if I create a new base line that does not have the same objectives, have the same DNA of the project charter, I created, I'm creating a new project.

So it's much better to stop a board that project in the start, a new one with the new Replanning process, new name, new everything. So new blobby to make sure that we will accomplish our new objectives. But if the object changes or something in the project charter that is critical for the success of the project changes. Usually the, even the Replanning is not enough. You need to do something more radical, maybe to cut this product and to start a new one, otherwise will be built something weird, strange, because the product that you're delivering is not related to the objective that you are looking for.

So think about that. Replanning is a major adjustment in your plan, covering all the areas. Rescheduling his just postponed and prepare news capital based on the gaps and of the failures that you did in the past and reprogram the future work. Think about that. I hope you enjoy this podcast. See you next week with another five minutes BM Podcast.

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