Week 8 Discussion 1
“Excusable Delays”
Please respond to the following:
From the first e-Activity, identify the remedies of
excusable delay. Analyze which remedies are appropriate and effective and which
remedies are not. Justify your analysis. Then, select an ineffective remedy and
make a recommendation to mitigate the associated issue(s).
From the first e-Activity, give your opinion as to whether
any of the four transportation construction projects in the table would be able
to legitimately rely on “excusable delay.” Explain the key reason why reliance
on excusable delay in these cases would or should be considered legitimate
Week 8 Discussion 2
“Deepwater Program” Please respond to the following:
From the second and third e-Activities, analyze whether the
Coast Guard’s management and execution of the program was a cause or a symptom
of the cost overruns and resulting delays of the Deepwater program. Support
your position.
Identify and discuss the key factors that contributed to the
cost overruns in the situation in Part 1 of this discussion. Suggest the
strategies you would employ to avoid such cost overruns. Support your
suggestion.
