• Management consultant Kurt Rossett says that both contractors and owners could benefit if they could agree to split the cost of hiring an outside professional to keep track of scheduling on a project.
• The contractors would save money by not having to devote a full-time staff member to tracking work and re-estimating times, and the owner would have more faith in the schedule, even as it changed.
• Software for scheduling is hard to understand, and construction-project management scheduling has turned into fodder for lawsuits rather than helping keep things on track.

From the article:

I was recently asked to participate in a debate on scheduling specifications at Stanford University. A representative from the contractor sponsoring the conference would take the position that most scheduling specifications were onerous or unnecessary. My role, if I agreed to partake, would be to defend them before an audience filled with contractors. ...