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
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