Planning Intelligence: transforming your planning into a strategic, legal and financial lever

Introduction

Most project schedules are used as simple reporting tools. But in today's high-stakes projects, the schedule is no longer just a timeline. It is a contractual weapon, a forensic witness, a negotiating leverage and a Financial compass.

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It's not just about planning — but about transforming data into legal defensibility, and strategic anticipation and in Controlled execution, claim-proof.

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The Planning Intelligence™ corresponds to the structured integration of 4 key dimensions :

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  • Contractual
  • Legal (legal / claims)
  • Financier (cost & impact)

 

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Most reference schedules have major weaknesses:

  • Artificial constraints and incomplete logic
  • Poor change traceability and undocumented rebasing
  • Discrepancy between schedule milestones and contractual deliverables
  • Siloed work between planning, contracts, sales, and legal

 

Result: rejected claims, lost arbitrations, and financial drift of projects

 

Planning Intelligence in Action: The ALVID Approach

Step 1: Baseline Audit & Contractual Alignment

We don't only check durations. Each activity is linked to:

  • Contractual clauses (e.g., FIDIC 20.1, NEC 61.1)
  • Risk events
  • Critical interfaces

 

Step 2: Forensic analysis of delays (real-time or post-mortem)

  • TIA (Time Impact Analysis)
  • Window Analysis (retrospective analysis)
  • Collapsed As-Built (but-for logic)

 

All managed under Primavera P6, and structured to be defensible in arbitration

 

Step 3: Strategic Claim Structuring

We use planning data for:

  • Justify Extension of Time
  • Identify concurrent delays
  • Isolate customer-attributable impacts

 

Combining planning, costs, and legal arguments

 

Step 4: Simulation and negotiation preparation

  • “What-if” Recovery Models”
  • Acceleration vs. Mitigation Arbitrage
  • Support for Dispute Boards / Dispute Adjudication Boards

 

Real Case - ALVID Deployment

ALVID Consulting has enabled us to:

  • Reconstruct a robust and defensible as-built baseline
  • Identifier 3 delays attributable to the contractor vs. 5 imputable to the customer
  • Produce a defensible TIA leading to:
    • +2 months of EOT approved
    • 0 penalty applied

 

Why Planning Intelligence™ is a Game-Changer

  • Transformation of the scheduling into a strategic decision-making tool
  • Full alignment between planning, contract, and claims
  • Transitioning from passive piloting to a proactive and defensible logic

 

Who needs Planning Intelligence?

  • EPC Contractors Exposed to EOTs / LADs
  • Clients in dispute
  • Law firms requiring solid technical support
  • PMO managing complex or multi-stakeholder projects

 

Conclusion: Your schedule is more powerful than you think

«If your schedule can't defend you in arbitration, it's just a Gantt chart.»

 

With the Planning Intelligence, your Primavera schedule becomes:

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✔ A forensic proof framework
A bargaining chip
✔ A shield in litigation

 

Ready to transform your approach to planning?

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