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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Playbooks
Step-by-step guides an owner, contractor or program director can use on a live schedule this month.
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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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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