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A short-interval planning grid — three weeks of day-level activities by crew and cost code, with priority, constraints, and a planned/actual/delayed legend.
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It's a short-interval plan covering the next three weeks of work in day-level detail — far more granular than the master CPM schedule. Superintendents use it to coordinate crews, subs, materials, and constraints week to week.
Three weeks is the sweet spot: near enough to plan with confidence, far enough to surface constraints (long-lead materials, inspections, prerequisite work) while there's still time to resolve them. Some teams run a 2-week or 6-week version of the same grid.
Mark each activity's day cells as Planned (P), Actual/Complete (A), Delayed/At Risk (D), or Hold/Awaiting Info (H). The color-coded legend at the bottom keeps the grid readable in the field trailer.
The master (CPM) schedule covers the whole project; the look-ahead zooms into the next three weeks at a day level for coordination. The look-ahead should always reconcile back to the master.
The master schedule tells you where the project should be in six months; the 3-week look-ahead tells the crew what to do tomorrow. It's the superintendent's coordination tool — a day-level plan of the next three weeks that surfaces constraints (long-lead materials, inspections, prerequisite work) early enough to act on them.
This template gives you a 15-day grid (three weeks, weekdays) with an activity, crew or subcontractor, cost code, and priority per row, plus a constraints column and a planned/actual/delayed/hold legend so the grid reads at a glance in the trailer.
A look-ahead in a spreadsheet drifts from reality the moment field conditions change. Field PM ties daily field reporting to your plan so progress, productivity, and constraints stay connected — not living in three different files.