S5E124: Time Location charting for Linear Projects with Santosh Bhat - a podcast by Val Matthews & Dale Foong

In this episode, Martin and Val talk to Santosh Bhat in detail about the lesser-known  Time-location method and how it can be applied on projects. The main topics we discussed on the podcast were as follows:

Time chainage is a form of presenting activities from a project schedule. It differs from a Gantt chart by the addition of a second dimension i.e. location. It allows you to plot where activities are occurring
Time is shown on the vertical axis which can often confuse people! Location is presented on the horizontal axis. It uses start / end dates and location information that already exists in planning software
Time chainage charts are not a new concept. It first originated in the 1800s! The Empire State Building was built using a version of this
After educating Project Managers about how to use a time chainage chart, it enabled better conversations around the schedules and stakeholders became more engaged as a result
It doesn’t require any specific training to operate, it relies on the programme being fully logic linked
The colours on the chart tend to represent project disciplines. It allows discussion on production rate estimates by visualizing activities into shapes
Baselines can be assigned
4D is a snapshot of a schedule at a point in time. Time location charts is more appropriate for live scheduling. Both visualization tools are complementary rather than competing
The software is particularly useful for what-if scenarios and visualizing the impact of changes
Time location charts are not directly linked to time risk allowance in Primavera, it can be used to visualize risk analysis outputs
People have the impression time location charts are too complex to implement and too difficult to explain to stakeholders which has prevented major projects from implementing it

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