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How do you prepare a recovery programme?

Short answer: Start from the latest update, find the activities that drive the finish, then shorten them where crews really can (more crews, a second shift) and overlap work only where the logic allows. Keep approvals and authority work as they are, re-schedule after every change, and state the resources each change needs.

  1. Agree the target: the contract completion, a milestone or a number of days.
  2. Take the driving path from the latest update.
  3. Shorten the cheapest activities first - usually long activities where an extra crew gives a big saving - and re-schedule after each change, because new critical paths appear.
  4. Overlap only finish-to-start links where work can run in different areas.
  5. Do not shorten approvals, authority inspections, deliveries or curing.
  6. List every change with the crew or shift it needs, and the risks.

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