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Scenario analysis

Protect a milestone. Recover lost time. Pick the best option.

What-if scenario analysis for construction and infrastructure schedules

Project teams rarely have the capability or the time to look before they leap. Milestones get derailed from unexpected directions, chances to accelerate go unnoticed, and catch-up plans fall apart on site. nPlan's scenario analysis runs your what-ifs through an AI trained on more than 750,000 past project schedules, so you can stress-test a milestone or weigh up a response before you commit to it. Scroll down to find out more.

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Protect a milestone. Recover lost time. Pick the best option.

Project teams don't have the capability or the time to look before they leap.

Testing a date or a decision properly means rerunning a risk analysis on a changed schedule. That takes a specialist, and the commitment is usually due before one is free. So dates go to the board and recovery plans get approved on the assumption that everything goes to plan.

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Untested plans fail in predictable ways.

Milestones are derailed by problems nobody looked for. Chances to accelerate go unnoticed. Catch-up plans look fine on paper and fall apart on site.

Now you can look before you leap.

nPlan's scenario analysis runs your what-ifs through an AI trained on more than 750,000 past project schedules. Stress-test a milestone, or weigh up each response you're considering, and see the change in delay and likelihood of finishing on time side by side.

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Build your own scenarios, or ask Barry to put them together.

Name the scenario, pick a starting point and add changes. Each change applies to a set of activities, and they're forecast together. Or describe what you want to test and let Barry, our project controls AI agent, build it.

Pick the course of action most likely to work, then meet or exceed your commitments.

Compare scenarios, check which milestones moved, and make the one you trust your active schedule file.

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How project teams use scenario analysis

Stress-test a milestone against the activities most likely to derail it, including the ones nobody was watching.

Find out where acceleration would actually bring a date forward, and by how much.

Test a catch-up plan before you approve it, and challenge a contractor's recovery programme with a credible alternative.

Describe what you want to test and let Barry build the scenario, then turn the result into report-ready copy.

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What project leaders are saying about nPlan

nPlan is a critical part of our strategy to ensure predictable delivery and provide effective oversight across our entire investment programme. By leveraging AI and historical data, we can make smarter, data-driven decisions.

Euan Black

Head of Delivery Portfolio Management

Anglian Water

Applying nPlan’s AI capability at a portfolio oversight level allows us to quickly target our leadership interventions to the right areas across a large portfolio of projects, to mitigate risks to outcomes being delivered when they are needed.

David Bunn

Portfolio Director

BAM

With nPlan as a delivery partner, we’re able to take a new approach to analysing our schedules - removing the human bias in favour of learning from actual data and historical performance - and driving efficiency into the process. Being able to get more frequent analysis done on a larger volume of schedules is a game-changer for us.

Richard Palczyinski

Head of Strategic Project Controls

Transpennine Route Upgrade

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