Recovery Schedule

Add resources and bring back the project to it's original contractual completion date.

Hi Atef - Welcome to Planning Planet

First to consider is "Are you entitled to an extension of time?" If you are then you do not need to accelerate.

If the delay is the companies fault then before you do anything then you have to decide what is cheaper - the cost of accelerating or the damages. It may be a bit of each.

If you decide to accelerate then focus on the critical activities by working overtime and - if feasible - increased gang size.

When you have worked on the critical tasks you will probably have different critical tasks so repeat the process.

Always keep a check on the extra costs.

Having created the plan your real problem is getting the manager to work to it - he probably wont.

My mate Steve the Bajan will give you good advice on Critical Drag which will help.

Good luck

Mike Testro

irst you must determine who is responsible for the delay. If it is you the contractor then you must recover the time if is owner then you must be granted compensable time extension. If it is weather related then you must be granted non-compensable time extensionyou

if the delay is your fault you have 3 options

option #1

Fast Tracking the schedule means to Revise the logic and do thing concurrently or in parallel which means that your manpower peak will be higher but it will be the same number of man-hours except for additional supervision.

A good rule of thumb is that sequential activities can sometimes be fast-tracked by up to 33%. In other words, if you're fast-tracking, you can start the second of two sequential activities when the first activity is 66% complete. So when you are 66% complete with the first conduit activity you can start the wire pulling.

option #2

Crashing the Schedule 

Crashing the schedule means to reduce your durations but you will have to increase your man-hours because you need more men to do it in a shorter amount of time. You would shorten the duration of the activities on the critical path by throwing additional resources to the critical path without necessarily getting the highest level of efficiency. You might have to do several iterations because you crash one critical path then something else becomes critical. You will have increased cost in with this option.

option #3

is a combination of options #1 and #2

in all of the options you may have to do this over and over again becasue the critical path could change. Alwasy attack the critical path when looking to recover time.