A recovery plan can increase cost without recovering a single day 🚨.
Before adding manpower or overtime, identify what controls the finish date: the Critical Path 🚩
In CPM, this is the longest duration sequence of dependent activities through the schedule network. It determines the earliest possible completion based on the schedule’s logic and durations.
Why it matters ✳️
It directs resources, decisions and recovery efforts toward activities that affect delivery.
What shapes it ❇️
• Activity durations, productivity and
resource availability.
• Dependencies, leads, lags, calendars
and constraints.
• External prerequisites: site readiness, materials,
permanent power and approvals.
In elevator projects, these prerequisites must be linked to the work they enable. Unmodeled dependencies can make a completion forecast unrealistic.
Effective monitoring requires 🔰
• Verified actual progress and realistic
remaining durations.
• Review of critical and near-critical paths,
including declining total float.
• A rolling lookahead with clear owners and deadlines for unresolved prerequisites.
• Comparison of the forecast finish against the approved baseline.
To recover time, assess crashing or fast-tracking for measurable schedule benefit, cost, feasibility and risk. Recalculate afterward: another path may become critical.
A credible recovery plan demonstrates days saved at completion, with the cost and risks understood and safety and quality protected.
On your projects, which dependency most often controls handover and what intervention has actually recovered time?
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