The Scheduling Compendium

The Ultimate Reference for the Scheduling Practice

Not Just Another Exposition

The bookstores are filled with volumes on the Scheduiing Practice. Do we really need another authoritative treatise? The answer is that all of the existing works deals only with limited parts, but never the whole, of the Scheduling Practice.

All Under One Cover

The ICS Scheduling Compendium stands alone as the single-source document covering all essential aspects of the Scheduling Practice.

  • Roles: The Compendium introduces an original set of job descriptions, specialization labels, and associated skills sets

  • Terminology: The Compendium offers, for the first time ever, a validated set of arcane terms that are correct, current, and relate seamlessly with one another. And it retires old terminology no longer in use.

  • Formulas: The Compendium sets forth the mathematical underpinning of the Critical Path Method in a way that is consistent with the Terminology, and provides guidelines for software developers to standardize their algorithms.

  • Concepts: The Compendium presents a coherent set of principles and concepts that effectively tie theory to practice, aimed at three distinct audiences: the owner/executive; the project manager; and, the Practitioner audience.

  • Guiding Principles and Performance Standards: The Compendium contains the specific guidelines, thresholds, and parameters within and against which all ICS components abide. ICS-Scheduling performs scheduling according to these guiding principles and performance standards. Similarly, ICS-licensed trainers and consultants adhere to, and advocate, these same principles and standards. ICS-Scoring and ICS-Specifications employ these principles and standards in their algorithms and contract language.

We are confident that, in time, the ICS Scheduling Compendium will be adopted by the Construction Industry as the definitive treatise on the Scheduling Practice. In the face of several. industry-wide initiatives to write best practices, recommended practices, and standards, this is a bold, if not arrogant, claim to make. But what sets the Compendium apart from these other efforts, is that the Compendium has been written as a single, integrated document, and not as a compilation of independently drafted/circulated/vetted standalone pieces.

The Epicenter of ICS

The Scheduling Compendium is at the very epicenter of all ICS operations. For example:

  • ICS-Institute trains Apprentice Schedulers according to the Compendium.

  • ICS-Training develops current Practitioners according to the Compendium.

  • ICS-Certification tests against Compendium content.

  • ICS-Scheduling provides direct and consulting services based on the Compendium.

  • ICS-Publications approves only works that comport with the Compendium.

  • ICS-Scoring is based on the mathematics of the Compendium.

  • ICS-Specifications imposes requirements for both the Project Schedule and the Scheduling Program that are derived from the Compendium.

For More Information

For more information, write us at Compendium@ICS-Global.com.