We help you plan with precision and execute with confidence. From kickoff to delivery, we help you stay on time and on budget.
Project planning and scheduling involves designing customized end-to-end roadmaps of tasks, resources, and dependencies required to efficiently execute a project. From the time stakeholders provide approval to a project’s closeout, this process improves transparency, gets ahead of constraints, ensures compliance, and empowers autonomous resources — the lifeblood of your project.
From inception to completion, planning and scheduling are critical components of effective project management. Backed by the entire Intra Management Solutions team, our experienced experts establish pragmatic strategies that help clearly document how a project will be successfully executed, supervised, controlled, and completed.
We have time-tested experience in seamlessly embedding our highly skilled people into your project team. Armed with up-to-date insights on standards and guidelines, our expert planners and schedulers help you save time, energy, and money throughout the life cycle of your next complex project.
In utilizing key tools for planning and scheduling—such as Gantt Charts, Critical Path Method, and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)—we bring advanced expertise to meet your team’s planning and scheduling needs.
Forward-Thinking Strategies
In-depth analysis
Careful monitoring
Consistent tracking
We help your team master the IPM and EVM tools that drive project success.
At IMS, our scheduling experts deliver schedule health assessments that enable them to both identify and resolve your project’s schedule risks. We have the right skills and premium partnerships that allow us to assess, analyze, and solve for the gamut of program control and management platforms.
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Effective Planning & Scheduling translate program scope and contractual requirements into an executable roadmap that defines what work must be performed, when it must occur, how activities are connected, and which milestones drive program success.
For government contractors, a credible schedule also provides the foundation for forecasting, Earned Value Management (EVM), resource planning, risk analysis, and customer reporting.
IMS helps organizations develop and maintain integrated, logic-driven schedules that give program teams more than a list of dates. The objective is a schedule that helps management understand where the program is today, what is driving future performance, and whether key commitments remain achievable.
A credible Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) should accurately represent how the program intends to execute the work. Activities should be logically connected, contractual milestones clearly identified, dependencies understood, constraints appropriately managed, and the critical path supported by realistic assumptions.
IMS helps organizations develop and assess schedules for logical integrity, critical and near-critical paths, float, constraints, leads and lags, open ends, milestone alignment, WBS structure, and overall schedule health.
We also help establish repeatable scheduling processes so the IMS remains a reliable management tool throughout execution—not simply a schedule that was credible when the baseline was established.
A scheduled completion date does not necessarily mean there is a high probability of achieving it. Critical-path changes, supplier dependencies, technical uncertainty, resource constraints, and other risks can significantly affect the likelihood of meeting contractual commitments.
IMS combines critical-path analysis, schedule health assessments, trend analysis, forecasting, and Schedule Risk Assessments (SRA) to help organizations evaluate milestone achievability.
This gives program leadership greater insight into what is driving a delivery date, how much schedule flexibility exists, what could cause the date to move, and where corrective or mitigation actions may be needed.
Yes. IMS can support organizations whether they are building a schedule for a new program, improving an existing IMS, or recovering a schedule that no longer provides a credible execution forecast.
Our scheduling professionals can support Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule development, baseline establishment, schedule maintenance, schedule health assessments, critical-path analysis, schedule recovery, Schedule Risk Assessments, change control, status and forecasting, and customer reporting.
IMS also works with program managers, Control Account Managers, engineering, operations, supply chain, finance, subcontractors, and other stakeholders to ensure the schedule reflects how the work will actually be executed.
The result is an IMS designed to support program execution, customer requirements, and management decision-making.
Complex government programs rarely operate within a single system. Schedule information may depend on inputs from engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, subcontractors, financial systems, EVM tools, and multiple scheduling environments.
IMS helps organizations establish the processes and integrations needed to bring those inputs together into a more consistent program view. Our experience includes environments using Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Deltek Open Plan, Cobra, PM Compass, and associated enterprise systems.
By improving schedule integration, governance, and analysis, IMS helps transform planning data intoactionable program intelligence—giving teams and executives greater visibility into dependencies, upcoming work, emerging delays, and forecast outcomes.
Ultimately, the schedule should help leadership answer a simple but critical question:
Do we have a credible plan to deliver—and will we know early enough if that plan is changing?
