AAOM Handbook

Not Urgent – schedule before Required Date

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If work is declared Impact 1 or 2; with a Required Date of today, or within 7 days of creation, it is processed as Urgent Work. All other work is to be handled through the regular Scheduling and Planning process.

Planning

Planning is the process of preparing a Work Package that defines; • what the work is,

• how the work is to be executed, • what is needed to do the work, • the standards that the work must meet.

Work is planned to ensure that everything necessary to deliver the right work, safely and efficiently, is identified before the work commences.

Checklist

A list of actions, steps, or outcomes needed to complete a task. Each item is checked off as it is completed.

Scheduling

Scheduling is the process of allocating time, space, labour and equipment to work, while managing the synergies and conflicts between work.

Critical Path

The series of dependant Tasks in a schedule that define the minimum duration of the schedule. That is, any delay to a Task on the critical path will be added to the completion time, unless another Task on the Critical Path is accelerated or eliminated. Likewise, the completion time can be reduced by accelerating any Task on the Critical Path. The objectives of scheduling are firstly to ensure that all work packages are completed at the right time, and secondly to make the most efficient use of resources while doing this.

Job Template

A template that is used to improve the speed and accuracy of preparing a Work Order for repetitive activities. The Job Template will normally include at least all of the consistent elements of the work, and may also include some optional elements.

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