SHAPE FOR PLANNING, SCHEDULING & PROJECT CONTROLS
Connect your schedule to what’s actually happening on site
Turn your master schedule into clear weekly plans that teams can easily follow. Take immediate action when field reality diverges from the plan.
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LEADING CONTRACTORS USE SHAPE TO RECOVER MILLIONS IN DISPUTED MARGINS

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120 employees

100+ employees

26,000 employees

10,000 employees

15,000 employees

180 employees

400
employees

4,500
employees

120 employees

100+ employees

THE MISSING LINK
Keep your schedule up to date without chasing down updates
When weekly planning happens separately from your master schedule, critical information can get stuck at site level. Delays, disruption, changes that impact the schedule might not be discovered until recovery options are much more limited.
Connect your schedule to site delivery
Plan weekly work directly from the schedule
Create schedule-linked weekly work plans so you can monitor schedule progress and maintain control over delivery performance.
Import activities
Pull activities directly from your schedule with all task details and ownership intact.
Manage dependencies
Built-in readiness checks ensure teams have everything needed before work starts each week.
Align all trades
Give every trade clear weekly targets with specific locations and timing.

Track actual progress against the plan
See which activities are progressing as planned and document variances when work deviates from the schedule so you can plan ahead more precisely.
Monitor schedule variances
See which activities are ahead, behind, or not happening as planned
Capture unplanned work
Track additional activities that emerge during execution alongside your original schedule
Assess schedule impact
Understand how variances affect downstream activities and critical path timing

Build comprehensive delay evidence automatically
Capture delay documentation with complete context so you can justify schedule adjustments and support claims when needed.
Document the full story
Every delay gets captured with who, what, when, and why.
Link everything together
Issues connect directly to affected activities so you can trace impacts through your schedule.
Evidence ready when needed
Generate comprehensive PDF reports to support extension of time claims or client negotiations
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See Shape in action. Turn your master schedule into clear weekly plans that teams can easily follow. Take immediate action when field reality diverges from the plan.
Frequently Asked Questions
Create a direct link between your master schedule and weekly site delivery. Shape’s Weekly Work Planner allows you to break down your P6 or MS Project schedule into manageable weekly tasks for the field. This creates a direct feedback loop, so you can track actual progress against the plan in a clean, consistent way.
You get real-time updates by connecting your high-level schedule to the field's daily work. Shape's Shift Manager and Weekly Work Planner allow your site teams to record progress in real-time. This ensures you always have the most accurate, up-to-the-minute data to update your project schedule without having to chase people down.
You prevent schedule slippage by getting early warning signals of potential delays. Shape's system provides variance alerts that instantly flag when work deviates from the plan. This gives you time to assess the impact and work with the site team to course-correct before a small delay turns into a major problem for the master schedule.
The best way to create an accurate four-week lookahead is to use a consistent, reliable stream of data from the field rather than assumptions. With Shape, every daily report, photo, issue, and conversation is logged automatically. This comprehensive record shows you actual productivity rates, recurring delays, and resource constraints—the real data you need to build a realistic and achievable lookahead plan based on how work is actually progressing on site.
You track critical path risks by getting clear insight into what's blocking work on site. Shape’s Issue Tracker and Channels tools centralise all communication and blockers, providing a live feed of all issues. This allows you to quickly identify any issues that might put your critical path at risk and take action to prevent them from becoming a formal delay.
A mobile app for the site helps with schedule management by making it easy for field teams to provide the data you need to keep your schedule accurate. By giving site teams a simple way to confirm progress against the plan, flag issues, and provide photos, a tool like Shape ensures you have the accurate data you need without having to leave your desk.
You quantify the impact of delays by using a comprehensive, time-stamped record of all events affecting your schedule. Shape automatically documents issues and schedule variances as they happen on site, creating a clear timeline of delays with full context. This audit trail is crucial for supporting extension of time claims and helps you show a clear, defensible record of how specific events affected the project.
A project often falls behind the plan because there is a gap between the schedule and the daily reality on site. The plan on paper is only as good as the information used to update it. Without a live, connected feedback loop from the field, you won't have the visibility to spot early warning signs and act before the project falls behind.
The benefit of a live project schedule is the ability to manage proactively. A live schedule is a real-time reflection of what's happening on site, not a static document. It's automatically updated with data from the field, so you can see progress, identify delays, and make decisions based on what’s actually happening, not what you think is happening.
You can use data from the field to predict schedule risks by having a single source of truth for all project events. By logging everything in one place, you can identify patterns, trends, and recurring issues that could impact future work. Shape's dashboards give you the insights to spot these trends, so you can predict where risks are emerging and adjust your plan accordingly.


