Strategies for Recovery

Strategies for Recovery

Strategies for recovery/acceleration

Common techniques that schedulers and management teams use to recover schedule variances and, in general, accelerate a schedule. Schedule recovery is a managerial effort to recover from the interruption of events on the planned schedule.

Acceleration refers to a reduction in the duration of the overall schedule. The focus for schedule recovery or acceleration should be on critical activities and, in particular, on long-duration critical activities.

Because critical activities drive key milestone dates, the overall schedule duration will be reduced only by reducing the critical paths. Some of the strategies described below may have contractual implications.