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Can better schedule planning and monitoring prevent disputes before they become contractual issues?

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SANJEET TERI
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Consultant| Timely Nexus Project LLP Greater NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
An important question.
I would add that schedule planning and monitoring create value not only by improving delivery, but by preserving a shared understanding of progress, assumptions, and emerging risks before positions become contractual.
Many disputes do not arise because a schedule changes.
They arise because the reasons behind those changes are no longer transparent, timely, or mutually understood.
In that sense, effective schedule management is not only a planning discipline; it is also a governance mechanism that helps organizations resolve uncertainty before it hardens into conflict.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Sanjeet -

Yes - if those disputes related to project timelines. Disciplined schedule management could result in more realistic timelines being committed to and earlier warning of variances which could reduce the likelihood of the team blowing a deadline.

But time is just one of many constraints and project success criteria and it would not do a team well to be obsessed with purely that dimension.

Kiron

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