How to review a contractor’s first baseline before you accept it
The first baseline sets the yardstick for every update, change and claim that follows. Eight questions to answer before you sign off on it.
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Insights
What the schedule is telling you, and how to act on it while you still have options. Written for owners, contractors and program leaders.
Is the delay confined, or will it move a milestone?
Every late activity gets a meeting. Only some deserve one. How to tell a delay that float will absorb from one that is heading for a contractual date.
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Reading the driving path in a monthly update
The critical path in the report and the path actually driving the finish are not always the same. A step-by-step way to read the one that matters.
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Forecast cost from the field, not from the invoice
Invoices tell you what was spent. Installed quantities tell you what was done. Why a credible cost forecast starts on site, and how to build one.
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Every recovery option has a price. Put it on the table.
Overtime, a second shift, resequencing or resetting the milestone. Each option buys a different number of days at a different cost. Compare them side by side.
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P6 update hygiene: ten checks before the update goes out
Most bad forecasts are not bad judgment. They are a stale data date, an out-of-sequence activity or a constraint nobody removed. Ten checks that catch them.
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Decision windows: act while you still have options
Every schedule problem has a window when it is cheap to fix. The job of project controls is to show leadership that window before it closes.
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