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What can the Friday records support?

Illustrative water-main worksite and kiosk compound, used alongside the project progress records.

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1. Project brief

The reporting position

The site reports installed bays, but acceptance requires inspection evidence. You are establishing how much work can earn progress at the reporting cut-off.

Water main and independent kiosk · WMK-1

Project controls · WMK-1

What can the Friday records support?

The Friday records describe installation and inspection separately. Establish the reporting position before updating the forecast.

Water-main and kiosk project · BL-1

Supplied Scope teaching baseline, version 1. Scenario approval supplied for learning; independent technical review pending. Scope WMK-1. Independent kiosk package completion includes installation, connection, testing and acceptance.

Calendar: Monday to Friday, no holidays. Day 0 is Wed 14 Oct 2026 start; day 8 is Fri 23 Oct close. Durations use whole working days. Only finish-to-start, zero lag and zero-duration milestones are supported.

CA-WM maps all ten bay budgets to activity P. Excavation, final system testing and kiosk costs are outside this control account.

Show a short worked example

One installed bay with no acceptance certificate is physically installed, but earns £0 under this exercise’s 0/100 acceptance rule. A signed acceptance earns that bay’s full budget. Other projects may use a different stated rule.

Terms for this task

Accepted means a bay has passed the stated local inspection. An installed bay awaiting inspection remains visible as installed but earns no acceptance credit yet.

On site

Compare the work with the records

Installed main

Installation is a physical status. Acceptance needs the inspection evidence required by the reporting rule.

Illustrative scene. Use the lesson figures and records for measurements.

D-08 · Site diary · Fri 23 Oct close

Installation diary

At Friday close, bays 01 to 07 are physically installed. Bays 08 to 10 have not started. Local inspections are recorded separately. Signed site diary, revision 1.

Authored teaching record · WMK-1 · retained source

I-01 · Inspection register · Wed 21 Oct close

Bay 01 inspection

Local installation inspection accepted. Integrated main testing is still separate.

Authored teaching record · WMK-1 · retained source

I-02 · Inspection register · Wed 21 Oct close

Bay 02 inspection

Local installation inspection accepted. Integrated main testing is still separate.

Authored teaching record · WMK-1 · retained source

I-03 · Inspection register · Wed 21 Oct close

Bay 03 inspection

Local installation inspection accepted. Integrated main testing is still separate.

Authored teaching record · WMK-1 · retained source

I-04 · Inspection register · Fri 23 Oct close

Bay 04 inspection

Local installation inspection accepted. Integrated main testing is still separate.

Authored teaching record · WMK-1 · retained source

I-05 · Inspection register · Fri 23 Oct close

Bay 05 inspection

Local installation inspection accepted. Integrated main testing is still separate.

Authored teaching record · WMK-1 · retained source

I-06 · Inspection register · Fri 23 Oct close

Bay 06 inspection

Local inspection failed: joint defect. Rectification and repeat inspection required.

Authored teaching record · WMK-1 · retained source

I-07 · Inspection register · Fri 23 Oct close

Bay 07 inspection

Installed bay awaiting inspection. No acceptance certificate has been issued.

Authored teaching record · WMK-1 · retained source

ACT-P · Verified actuals · Fri 23 Oct close

Pipe crew daily reports

Installation started at boundary 5. Work remains at the cut-off. No actual finish is substantiated.

Authored teaching record · WMK-1 · retained source

ACT-P-ALT · Transfer actuals · Fri 23 Oct close

Transfer scenario: early installation start

Alternative teaching record, not an additional original actual: installation began at boundary 4 under a partial trench release. This replaces ACT-P for the transfer test. The full-trench predecessor did not finish until boundary 5. Preserve the actual and decide how to treat remaining logic.

Authored teaching record · WMK-1 · retained source

F-P · Forecast basis · Fri 23 Oct close

Remaining installation assessment

Foreman and inspector allow two further full working days for three uninstalled bays, rectification and outstanding inspections. Crew and inspector are available Monday and Tuesday. This is an explicit forecast, not a percentage conversion.

Authored teaching record · WMK-1 · retained source

BUD-01 · Budget baseline · Wed 14 Oct start

CA-WM approved teaching budget

Ten equal-budget installation bays, £10,000 each. Local acceptance earns 100% of a bay; otherwise 0%. Six accepted bays planned by boundary 8. Final system testing, excavation and kiosk costs are outside this £100,000 account.

Authored teaching record · WMK-1 · retained source

AC-08 · Cost record · Fri 23 Oct close

Accrued cost ledger, CA-WM

£70,000 incurred to the same cut-off for CA-WM, including accruals. This is not a cash-payments total.

Authored teaching record · WMK-1 · retained source

IF-02 · Scope interface

The complete trench is handed over to the installation crew in this single-workface model.

IF-03 · Scope interface

The integrated main test requires all ten installed bays to pass local inspection.

Selected activity

Selected activity basis and records

Water main · Asset WM-01 · WBS 1.3

Ten bays, one installation crew; includes local bay inspection and rework allowance.

Saved project outputs

Baseline BL-1 remains unchanged. Saved versions below are retained; new work creates another version.

Structured-data CSV for review. It is not a native Primavera or Microsoft Project schedule.

Model limits and reference basis

One working calendar, finish-to-start zero lag. No automatic resource levelling, date constraints, progress override, baseline approval workflow or native scheduling-software export. Saved narrative is authored by you; validation checks evidence, model consistency and required fields, not the professional quality of every explanation.

GAO Schedule Assessment Guide · DOE earned value guidance · APM project controls. Methodological references, not accreditation.

Open spreadsheet for supporting calculations

Worksheet edits do not change the programme automatically. Review the production basis, then enter the affected duration explicitly.