Schedule risk analysis and project scheduling services
Independent schedule assurance and project controls for pharma and biotech capital programmes. Engage us for a single review, a fixed allowance of hours or a presence on site.
Core services
Schedule risk analysis
Monte Carlo analysis in Acumen Risk, built from a facilitated risk workshop, giving P50 and P75 dates for your key milestones, the risks driving them and a contingency recommendation.
S-curves, criticality index, tornado diagrams, pre- and post-mitigation comparison, board presentation.
Schedule quality review
An independent audit of your P6 schedule before it is baselined: metrics based on DCMA-14 and adapted to pharma CapEx, a critical path test, and a manual review of the logic.
Accepted, accepted with exceptions or not yet ready, with a prioritised remediation list.
Defending schedule contingency
Evidence that contingency is a response to quantified risk, not padding: a sound baseline, Monte Carlo results and scenario tests you can take into gate reviews, lender due diligence and negotiations.
PMO schedule governance
Frameworks, scheduling standards and review cycles that let owner teams manage schedule risk consistently across a portfolio of capital projects.
Schedule development
- Planning and scheduling
- Integrated P6 schedules from FEL-2 through FID to start-up.
- C&Q scheduling
- FAT, SAT, IQ, OQ and PQ, linked back to mechanical completion.
- Tender schedules
- Bid programmes, basis of schedule and RFQ clarification support.
- Optimisation
- Resequencing, resource allocation and levelling.
Control and delivery
- Progress and earned value
- Schedule updates and hours-based EV reporting.
- Cost control
- Budgets, forecasts and change control, kept consistent with the schedule.
- Pull planning
- Lookahead planning with site teams using Gantline, synced with P6.
- Embedded support
- Senior planning resource for the project or for peak periods.
Review and recovery
- Independent assessment
- Is the schedule, cost and risk position good enough to commit to?
- Forensic delay analysis
- As-built programmes and delay analysis for claims and disputes.
- Recovery programmes
- A realistic path back to completion, tested for risk.