Deceptive Schedules: What Can We Do About Them?
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"At the meeting the four experts lamented the state of scheduling. They say
they see widespread abuses of powerful software to produce badly flawed or deliberately
deceptive schedules that look good, but lack mathematical coherence or common sense
about how the industry works." This was the bottle of champagne broken across the
bow of the SS College of Scheduling at its launching. Since that time, practice standards
have been published and professional certifications implemented. It will be years before we
know if we have moved the meter on the quality of schedules in general. But with the
publication of AACE International Recommended Practice 29R-03 Forensic Schedule
Analysis, we ought to be able to detect individual flawed and deceptive schedules,
particularly where the deception is the result of logic manipulation. Can we? And if we
can, what can be done for parties deceived by such schedules?
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