Regional Emergency Communications Center
An independent schedule review that found the risk to a hard dispatch cutover date while there was still time to fix it.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Justice & Public Safety
- Our role
- Schedule assurance
- Scale
- $96M facility
- Completed
- 2024
Independent schedule review and risk analysis for a 24/7 dispatch center with a hard cutover date.
The agency had a fixed date to cut 24/7 emergency dispatch over to a new center. Radio, network and console systems had to be installed, tested and accepted before a single call could be routed. The contractor’s schedule showed the date as safe. The agency wanted an independent view before committing to the cutover with its partner agencies.
The approach.
- 01
Schedule health check
We ran a DCMA 14-point assessment and found open-ended activities, hard constraints and missing links around systems testing.
- 02
Critical path rebuilt
Working with the contractor, we corrected the logic so testing, training and acceptance sat on a true critical path.
- 03
Monte Carlo QSRA
A quantitative schedule risk analysis put the original cutover date at P22 and showed which risks drove the spread.
- 04
Mitigation the agency could act on
Early equipment release and parallel acceptance testing raised confidence in the cutover date to P80.
The outcome.
“The schedule said the date was safe. The data said it had about a one-in-five chance. That gap is why owners call us.”
Schedule assurance lead, KonradBeck
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