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Learn Brikt — and the scheduling behind it
Short subjects on the parts of Brikt you use every week, and plain-language pages on the scheduling behind them. Start with the job you are running, or start with a concept.
8 subjects · 12 concepts
Subjects
Schedule grid and Gantt
See Schedule grid and GanttBuild a schedule: grid, links, constraints, calendars
From a blank project to a linked, calendared schedule, in the grid and the predecessor shorthand.
Deck · 12 slidesSet up your grouping structure
Lay out the dimensions the project is organised on, see them before any activity exists, and build into them.
Deck · 10 slidesBring your existing schedule in
The guided conversation, and why your existing schedule lands as a draft you review rather than a silent overwrite.
Deck · 9 slidesSwitching from Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project
The core scheduling habits, mapped onto their Brikt equivalents — including the few that work differently or have no equivalent at all.
Deck · 12 slides
Field and check-in
See Field and check-inRun a daily check-in
The one morning question, the three answers, and what the answer does to the forecast.
Deck · 11 slidesRaise a blocker where the lateness is realised
Raising, anchoring, working and clearing a blocker; why a blocker never moves a date on its own.
Deck · 8 slidesBuild a look-ahead the trades will read
Set the window to the weeks you work to, group it the way your crews read it, and print the field sheet.
Deck · 10 slides
The scheduling behind it
Plain-language reference on the scheduling ideas the subjects above rely on. Each one stands alone, and each links back to the subjects that show it live.
- What is a construction schedule?8 slidesWhat a schedule is a model of, and what that lets it answer that a drawing of one cannot.
- What is an activity in a schedule?8 slidesThe pieces a schedule is built from, and what a duration is a statement about.
- Why is five days not five days?8 slidesFive working days is not always five calendar days — the non-working days on your job's calendar can move the finish.
- What is a predecessor?10 slidesThe four ways two pieces of work can be tied together, and what a lag adds to one.
- How do you read a Gantt chart?10 slidesThe bars, the arrows between them, and the shaded days the calendar does not count.
- How does a schedule work out its dates?10 slidesForwards from a start date to find the soonest each piece can go, then back from the finish to find the latest it may run.
- What is a constraint in a schedule?8 slidesHow to bound when work may start or finish, and when that bound overrides what the logic worked out.
- What is float in a construction schedule?10 slidesHow much room a piece of work has before something else slips, the two things that room is measured against, and what a number below zero means.
- What is the critical path?10 slidesWhy your finish date is computed rather than typed, which chain is driving it, and what driving means link by link.
- What is a data date?12 slidesWhat advancing it does, what "as of" means, and what happens when you enter a finish that has already passed.
- Remaining duration or percent complete?9 slidesWhy Brikt asks the field for working days left, and how the percent you see is derived from it rather than typed.
- What is a baseline schedule?8 slidesFreezing a copy of the plan, so that how far the work has moved from it is a measurement rather than a feeling.
See it on your own schedule
Reading is one thing. Bring a job you are running and we will run a morning on it together.