Tested data. Honest reports.
A forecast is only as good as the schedule and cost data behind it. Every KonradBeck deliverable is tested, reconciled and reviewed before an owner, a lender or a tribunal relies on it.
Integrity is a monthly decision.
Bad data rarely announces itself. It hides in an open-ended activity, a hard constraint or a percent complete nobody checked. Our job is to find it every period.
Test the data
Logic, float, constraints and progress are checked before any analysis starts, so conclusions rest on a sound model.
Reconcile everything
Schedule, budget, commitments and the change log are tied out to each other. If they disagree, we find out why before reporting.
Report it straight
Findings go to the client as the data shows them, with the reasoning attached, whether the news is good or bad.
If the numbers do not tie out, the report waits. Nobody here will ever be faulted for that.
Quality & integrity lead, KonradBeck
Every person on a KonradBeck engagement has the authority and the duty to hold a deliverable they believe is wrong. The report goes out once the issue is resolved and a reviewer agrees it is sound. We thank the person who held it, every time.
How an update runs.
The same five steps on a hospital program, a managed-lanes corridor or a data center campus.
Freeze the data date
Progress, actual dates and remaining durations are collected against one data date. Nothing after it gets in, nothing before it gets lost.
Verify progress
Reported progress is checked against field walks, inspection records and quantities in place. Percent complete has to be earned.
Run the quality checks
The update is tested against the DCMA 14-point assessment: logic, leads, lags, constraints, high float, negative float and missed tasks.
Tie out cost and change
Budget, commitments, the change order log and the forecast are reconciled to each other and to the schedule before any number is reported.
Second-person review
A senior reviewer who did not prepare the work checks the report, the variances and the narrative before it goes to the client.
Right the first time.
- QC-1
A quality plan for every engagement
Written at kickoff: what we check, against which standard, at what frequency, and who signs it off before release.
- QC-2
Schedule quality standards
Baselines and updates are tested against the DCMA 14-point assessment and built to AACE recommended practices for CPM scheduling.
- QC-3
Cost and EVM integrity
Earned value is measured with agreed rules of credit and, where required, aligned to ANSI/EIA-748 EVMS guidelines. No subjective percent complete.
- QC-4
QA/QC of every report
Every executive report, forecast and analysis gets an independent second-person review. Numbers in the narrative must match the numbers in the tables.
- QC-5
Traceable data
Every forecast can be traced back to its source: the schedule file, the cost report, the change log and the date they were pulled.
- QC-6
A short correction log
When we find an error, we log it, correct it, tell the client and fix the process that let it through, on every engagement, not just this one.
Skills that travel with people.
Training is how a standard survives a busy reporting week. We invest in it from an analyst’s first update to a controls lead’s first engagement of their own.
- Scheduling fundamentalsCPM logic, float, constraints and calendars in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project, taught on real schedules.
- Schedule quality checksRunning and interpreting the DCMA 14-point assessment, and knowing when a pass still hides a problem.
- Cost and earned valueBudgets, commitments, change logs, CPI, SPI and EAC, and how they tie back to the schedule.
- Reviewing and reportingWriting an executive narrative that leads with the answer, and reviewing someone else’s work with care.
- Ethics and independenceConflicts, confidentiality and the duties that come with expert and owner-side work, refreshed every year.
Ethics and independence.
Owners, lenders and tribunals rely on our numbers because we have no stake in the answer. These are the rules that keep it that way.
We screen every new engagement for conflicts of interest and disclose any relationship that could affect our independence before we sign.
Client data, contracts and reports stay confidential. We never name clients or share their data without written permission.
We report what the data shows, whether it favors the owner, the contractor or neither. Our findings are not for sale.
No one at KonradBeck is asked to move a date, soften a variance or drop a risk to make a report easier to present.
In claims and dispute work, our analysis follows the record and our duty to the tribunal, not the position of the party that retained us.
Associates on our bench work to the same quality plan, review process, independence rules and confidentiality terms as our own team.
Quality and integrity, answered.
Who can stop a KonradBeck report from going out?
Anyone on the team. A first-year analyst, a reviewer, an associate. If a number does not tie out or a conclusion does not follow from the data, they can hold the report and nobody will be faulted for it.
What standards do you follow for schedule quality?
We test schedules against the DCMA 14-point assessment and build them to AACE recommended practices. Where a contract specifies its own scheduling requirements, we meet those too and tell you where they fall short.
How do you stay independent on owner-side work?
We screen every engagement for conflicts, disclose relationships up front and report facts whether or not they favor the client. Our value to an owner depends on contractors and lenders trusting our numbers as well.
When does quality control start?
At kickoff. The quality plan, the data sources and the review steps are agreed before the first baseline or update, so the team inherits a process rather than inventing one under deadline.
What happens when an error is found?
It is logged, corrected and disclosed to the client with the impact on any prior report. The person who found it is thanked. If it points to a process gap, the process changes on every engagement.
Clean data is fast data.
Talk to us about how we build quality and integrity into your controls from the first baseline to the final report.