WHY IT MATTERS
A Better Schedule Builds a Better Project
One Standard. Every Schedule.
Replace subjective gut checks with a consistent, repeatable quality benchmark applied automatically across every schedule imported to ALICE or generated by ALICE.
Not Just Issues — Fixes.
ALICE provides a prioritized report with recommended fixes, that tells you exactly where to focus for maximum score improvement.
Your First Layer of Derisking
Catch structural problems before they become delays, disputes, or missed milestones in the field.
ALICE’s Schedule Quality Score, rooted in DCMA, is a weighted score from 0–100, calculated automatically — no setup required. It is composed of:
- Logic Integrity (50%) — Are activities properly connected? Is the CPM foundation sound?
- Critical Path & Float Integrity (35%) — Can you trust your dates, your float, and your critical path?
- Duration & Progress Validity (15%) — Are durations realistic and progress data consistent?
Schedule Quality runs automatically in the background — no configuration needed. With every schedule you bring into ALICE or generated by ALICE, you receive a score, an explanation of key issues, and a plan to fix them. Here's how it works:
- Instant scoring at import: Your quality score appears the moment your schedule lands in ALICE, before any work begins.
- Scores every ALICE-generated schedule: Any plan ALICE produces carries a quality score, so you always know what you're working with.
- Side-by-side schedule comparison: Run a quality comparison between two schedules, for example your imported schedule versus an optimized version, and validate changes.
- AI-generated difference report: When comparing schedules, an AI summary surfaces the most meaningful quality differences.
- Insights Agent: For deeper analysis, ask the built-in AI agent questions or to surface patterns to get the information you need quickly.
Explore the features that help teams assess schedule quality, prioritize fixes, benchmark performance, and improve schedule confidence — supporting faster, more informed schedule decisions.
Quality Score & Benchmarks
See where your schedule stands against quality measurement thresholds at a glance.
Prioritized Fix Export
AI Quality Narrative
Get a plain-language summary of your schedule's health that’s easily understood by anyone on the team — not just scheduling experts.
Category Breakdown
Understand logic, float, and duration health individually, with thresholds your stakeholders can actually discuss.
Export-Ready Reporting
Share data in the format that best fits your workflow — .xml, .xer, .PDF, CSV, or XLSX, including comparison reports.
Score Comparison
Compare two schedules side by side to validate changes or catch any regressions before they impact delivery.
Optimize every construction phase with ALICE
ALICE gives you new planning and construction super powers.
Targeted Optimization
Identify where your schedule can be accelerated & by how much.
Analytics and Reporting
Track and analyze information that matters most to you.
Schedule Quality Score
Check your schedule score & know exactly what to fix & why.
Schedule Insights Agent
"Chat" with your schedule to get insights & recommendations.
Construction Sequencing
Solve complex constraints & intelligently sequence activities.
Construction Simulation
Explore numerous ways to build your project.
Optimization Presets
Fine-tune an ALICE simulation based on your project goals.
Risk Management
De-risk your project by modeling constraints and scenarios with AI.
Quality Scheduling Control in Construction Projects
Frequently Asked Questions
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A construction schedule is only as reliable as the logic behind it. Poor schedule quality — incomplete activity connections, broken logic, unrealistic durations, or inflated float — leads to decisions made on faulty data. By the time problems surface in an owner review, OAC meetings, construction stakeholder reviews or after an optimization run, fixing them is significantly more costly. Quality control at the schedule level is how teams protect their baseline, their credibility with owners, and the accuracy of every downstream decision that depends on the CPM.
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Quality control in construction management has traditionally meant manual review, external tools, or both. ALICE changes that. Every schedule is evaluated automatically against 13 industry-standard metrics, rooted in DCMA, across three categories — Logic Integrity, Critical Path & Float Integrity, and Duration & Progress Validity — producing a single weighted score from 0–100 the moment a schedule is imported.
Teams get a clear quality rating (Reliable, Limited, or Unreliable), a breakdown of exactly which metrics are failing, and a prioritized fix export that tells schedulers what to correct first and why. It's construction project management quality control built directly into the platform your team already uses for optimization.
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Most delays have early warning signs embedded in the schedule — high float on critical activities, negative lags, hard constraints overriding logic — that go undetected until course-correcting becomes expensive. Effective quality control tools in construction need to catch these structural issues before they compound.
ALICE Schedule Quality does exactly that: it surfaces problems at import, before any optimization is run.
By resolving quality issues early, teams raise the ceiling on what optimization can achieve and reduce the risk that a structurally unsound schedule drives decisions — on resourcing, sequencing, or owner commitments — that accelerate rather than prevent delays.
Read more: https://blog.alicetechnologies.com/construction-delays-why-do-they-occur-so-often