Forensic Schedule Analysis: Example Implementation

This paper presents a Forensic Schedule Analysis (FSA) example implementation, prepared to address the application of procedures described in AACE International’s Recommended Practice on Forensic Schedule Analysis.

The techniques explored here or variations on these techniques have been commonly referred to as “Windows Analysis” or “Time Impact Analysis.” Those terms are not used here, in preference for the taxonomic terms presented in the RP 29R-03. This paper presents two separate analyses of the same project. The analyses are based on the Method Implementation Protocols in Sections 3.3 and 3.7 of the recommended practice. The paper has four major sections:

1. Model Project to be Analyzed
2. Analysis by Inserting only Progress and Identifying Delays (MIP 3.3)
3. Analysis by Inserting Progress and Fragnets to Model Delays (MIP 3.7)
4. Comparison, Commentary, and Conclusion

Forensic Schedule Analysis: Example Implementation