RCK Consulting
Approach

Embedded with your team. Senior from day one.

Big-firm schedulers are expensive, junior, and rotate off your project mid-update. RCK is the opposite: senior planners, embedded in your team, accountable for what the schedule says and what it means.

Principles

Four commitments on every engagement.

Senior-led, never handed off

The people you hire are the people doing the work. No analyst handoffs, no offshore review desk, no learning curve on your dime.

Defensible, not decorative

Every schedule is built to withstand owner review, audit, or claim. CPM logic, narrative, and basis-of-schedule documented from day one.

Tools-agnostic

P6 for one project, MS Project for the next, Smartsheet or a clean spreadsheet for a third. The schedule serves the project — not the reverse.

Fractional & flexible

Full-time engagements, fractional retainers, or one-off scopes (baseline, TIA, recovery plan). Scaled to what the project actually needs.

How an engagement runs

From first call to closeout.

No two projects are identical, but the rhythm is consistent — and it is designed so you always know what the schedule says, what changed, and why.

Week 0

Discovery call

Thirty minutes on the project, the contract's schedule requirements, the risks, and what good looks like. You leave with a clear scope and fee.

Weeks 1–3

Baseline & setup

Schedule built with your superintendent and PM, logic and calendars documented, basis-of-schedule narrative written, controls and reporting templates set up.

Monthly

Update cadence

Progress captured in the field, schedule updated, critical path and variances explained in a narrative your owner can read. Look-aheads and pull plans as needed.

As needed

Analysis & closeout

TIAs for change orders, recovery plans when the path slips, and an as-built record that protects you at closeout — or in a claim.

What you get

Deliverables that are ready for the owner — and for the record.

  • Baseline schedule with logic report, calendars, and basis-of-schedule narrative
  • Monthly update packages: schedule, narrative, critical path, variance, and trend
  • Cost- and resource-loaded data aligned to the schedule of values
  • Dashboards and executive reporting in Power BI, Smartsheet, or Excel
  • Time Impact Analyses and fragnets prepared to AACE-recognized practice
  • Native P6 (.xer) or MS Project files — you own the schedule

Why this matters. A schedule is a contractual document. When it is built and maintained properly, it earns you time extensions, protects your float, supports your pay applications, and settles disputes before they become claims. When it is not, it does the opposite — quietly, for months.

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Talk through your project.

Tell us what the contract requires and where the schedule stands. We'll tell you what it takes.