Strategic Scheduling

The following is a summary list of the topics addressed in this hands-on training program:
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    		•  The “Written” and “Unwritten” Rules
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    		•  Cost-Loaded Schedules
     
  • To Cost-Load or Not to Cost-Load
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  • Correlation with the Schedule of Values
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  • Updating the Schedule vs. Approving the Payment Application
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  • Handling Changes in Cost-Loaded Schedules
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    		•  Float Games
     
  • How to play them
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  • How to stop them
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    		•  Impacts of Changes on the Schedule
     
  • "Activity" vs. "Schedule" Impact
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  • Clarify or Hide true Cause-Effect
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  • Dealing with "Changes" without an "Approved Change Order"
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  • One schedule or "Two"?
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  • Handling all CO delay components
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    		•  "Mitigation" of Delay
     
  • Contractor’s "responsibility" to mitigate
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  • Different approaches for different projects
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  • Use and Abuse
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    		•  Tying Responsibilities to the Schedule
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    		•  The Schedule as Documentation
     
  • The Job Meeting Agenda
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  • Correlating the Complete Project Record
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    		•  Dealing with Delay Claims
     
  • Supported and Unsupported Delay "Analysis"
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  • Presenting Delay Impacts
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  • Reviewing and Evaluating Delay Impacts
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  • Negotiating and Resolving Time Impacts
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  • "Understandings": Conditions for Approval
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    		•  Strategic Schedules in Litigation and Arbitration
     
  • Simplified Cause-Effect Demonstration
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  • Six Requirements for Presentable Evidence
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