Project scheduling and delay recovery - field note 047

The Chennai mall’s 200 kW cabling phase slipped by 3 weeks. By buffer removal and reallocating 10% of the workforce, we recovered 2 weeks. The key insight was that parallel routing of feeders can cut labor hours.

• Map feeders to parallel paths.
• Deploy double crews on critical segments.
• Use predictive scheduling tools.
• Hold daily stand‑ups to adjust priorities.