Scheduling
What this covers
Section titled “What this covers”A job is a sequencing problem. Trades have to land in the right order, and the client needs dates they can plan around — when demo starts, when the kitchen is usable again, when they get their house back.
This area holds the dates the project is judged on, and the record of how they have changed.
Milestones
Section titled “Milestones”A milestone is a key date on a project: permit issued, demolition complete, rough-in done, substantial completion. Each one is a real record carrying both a target date and an actual date, not a line in a status email.
Milestones are short by design. They mark the moments that matter to the people paying for and living through the work, rather than tracking every task on site.
A milestones report pulls them together across a project, so the dates can be read in one place instead of assembled from meeting notes.
The milestone schedule runs in Legacy KI. Alongside it this instance runs a CPM (critical path method) schedule and a four-week look-ahead, with the float and legal-compliance calculations that go with them. Neither is used on Story’s instance.
Both are run outside KI. The CPM schedule is maintained in Primavera Cloud, and the four-week look-ahead is distributed by email. Legacy KI has a section for uploading a schedule, but the team does not use it — so KI is not where to look for the current one, and a schedule found there may be out of date.
History, and why it matters
Section titled “History, and why it matters”Milestone dates change. Materials arrive late, an inspection gets rescheduled, a wall opens up and reveals something.
KI keeps the history. Changes to a milestone are recorded as they happen, and snapshots preserve what the dates looked like at points in time. That means “has this date moved, and when” has an answer on the record.
Movement in a schedule is normal. Movement nobody can trace is the problem, and keeping the history is how the second one is avoided.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Part 4 §13.3 — Construction — the Schedule module in the guide
- Field operations — the daily site record behind the dates
- Glossary — milestone, CPM schedule, four-week look-ahead