INEIGHT SCHEDULE
FOR PROFITABLE CONSTRUCTION, RETHINK SCHEDULING
MANAGING MODERN COMPLEXITY
Capital construction has gotten infinitely more complex over the past 70 years. Every year brings more stakeholders, more regulations, and more challenging projects. Often, modern construction projects result in something that’s never existed before. Increasing complexity brings with it an ever more compelling need to assess and manage the associated risk.
HOW DO YOU ASSESS RISK ON SOMETHING THAT’S NEVER EXISTED? HOW DO YOU BENCHMARK AND ESTIMATE A BESPOKE ENDEAVOR?
Every layer of complexity invites new levels of risk. Overcoming that risk requires collaboration. One group of stakeholders cannot account for every variable in a complex system. Schedulers and leaders have to rely on partners to contribute their experiences and cover those blind spots. Through collaboration, transformational scheduling weaves threads of knowledge together, creating a more comprehensive, connected, and proactive approach from initial planning to final delivery. When one thread sags, it relies on the others to hold it in place and help the project retain its structure and manage risk. This support fortifies the delivery process, empowering teams to pursue new opportunities. Collaboration holds the weight of complexity.
But partners still need a natural place to support that collaboration. No one wants to spend hours fighting with technology—that energy is better spent solving the problem. Transformational scheduling brings a centralized starting point to a complex series of inputs—getting everyone at the same place at the same time, with the same information. That added transparency and accountability makes it easier for parties to share risk.
You have to make big changes to adapt to big challenges. Right now, the traditional approach of stopping and resolving new obstacles mid-build is an expensive and complicated task. However, identifying risks early in the process allows stakeholders to contribute their experiences and adjust the schedule accordingly so that challenges are easier to mitigate downstream. All parties can see and experience the pain points of a risk scenario and are more inclined to remedy those obstacles.
COMPLIMENTING COMPLEXITY
Humans are excellent problem solvers; the humans involved in these complex capital construction challenges, in particular, are brilliant individuals capable of overcoming engineering problems beyond our wildest dreams. But even the bright minds reading this e-book are limited in their ability to process complexity when it’s layered in more complexity. Like a maze within a maze within a maze, we can only track our steps so far before the volume of information begins to overwhelm us. That’s where software comes in. The right tools can take a multi-phase, interdependent CPM model and execute sweeping change in an instant. The right tools can scale the capabilities of one expert across a worldwide network of estimators. Let the computers do the heavy lifting and leave yourself free for essential tasks like critical thinking and collaboration.