Five steps from schedule to decision.
Every engagement follows the same method, whether we arrive before the first baseline or in the month the driving path changes. You always know what we are doing, what you will receive and when.
The Beck Franklin method.
Five steps, each with deliverables you can hold us to.
Read
We open the native files before we form a view: contract milestones, logic, float, cost and the change log. Then we tell you where the project really stands.
- Schedule health check
- Driving path read-out
- Top risks, ranked
Baseline
We build or test the plan against how the work can actually be built: real logic, defensible durations and your contractual milestones tied into the network.
- CPM baseline in Primavera P6
- WBS and cost codes
- Basis of schedule
Measure
Each period we compare the schedule with field progress, not reported percentages. Cost and time are read side by side.
- Update and narrative
- SPI, CPI and variance
- Change and delay log
Forecast
We run time and money forward, so leadership sees the likely finish and final cost while the decision window is still open.
- P50 and P80 finish dates
- Estimate at completion
- Contingency drawdown
Act
We name the move: resequence, add a shift, buy early, decide scope. Each option is priced in days and dollars, with an owner and a date.
- Recovery options, priced
- Time impact analysis
- Decisions due this month
Controls need a schedule of their own.
A slip hides in the gap between reports. This cadence closes the gap on every engagement.
- Look-aheadsCut from the master schedule, walked with the field and checked against what actually happened last period.
- Period updatesProgress, logic changes and critical path movement, with a narrative that names what moved, why and who owns it.
- Executive one-pagerFinish date, confidence, cost forecast, milestones at risk and the decisions due before the next update.
- Risk refreshThe risk register and Monte Carlo model are rerun, so the P80 date moves with the project, not with hope.
We work in your systems.
No platform to buy. We deliver files your team can open, audit and keep using.
Our default for CPM schedules and programs. We read, build and deliver native XER files with clean codes and calendars.
When your team or your contractor works in it, so do we. No forced conversions, no lost logic.
Schedule and cost risk runs that turn one hopeful date into P50, P80 and P90 outcomes you can plan around.
Cost models and dashboards your finance team can open, audit and keep using after the engagement ends.
Automated tests on logic, float, constraints and dates, with a senior scheduler reading every result.
Start with the read.
Send us the current schedule. We will tell you what is driving the finish and what the first move should be.