Update a project schedule with Alfie after reviewing every dependency

Moving one construction activity can shift access, crew allocation, deliveries, inspections and customer commitments. A request such as “push the bathroom by a week” is therefore a connected change, not a date edit. Alfie can prepare the proposal, while the planner reviews dependencies and confirms the exact schedule effect.

Resolve the task and reason

Identify project, task or milestone, current dates, requested window and reason. Replace relative dates with calendar values and distinguish duration change from delayed start. If the request refers to a phase rather than one task, show every included activity.

Preserve the cause—client access, material delay, weather or resource conflict—so later reporting does not treat every change as equivalent performance.

Map the dependency impact

Review predecessors, successors, assigned crews, equipment, supplier dates and contractual milestones. Flag overlaps on other projects and any float consumed. A free destination slot is not sufficient if enabling work remains incomplete.

Assign each unresolved consequence to an owner. The planner should see what can move, what needs approval and which promise would be broken before confirming.

Review the Alfie schedule action

The preview shows old and new dates, connected tasks, crew conflicts and milestones affected. Alfie interprets the request, while Enfin remains the governed execution layer. The current action catalogue defines what can be done, organisation context limits which records are visible, and a preview makes the real effect reviewable. The model does not receive independent authority to change company data. Missing or conflicting evidence should stop the flow for clarification.

An explanation or scenario request remains read-only. Only an authorised confirmation applies the selected change, and channel-specific gates still control how an action may be executed.

Communicate from the confirmed schedule

After the write, notify affected roles from the shared record and update delivery or access decisions as separate owned tasks. Avoid copying the proposed dates into another spreadsheet before confirmation. Preserve the previous dates and decision reason for delay analysis.

Use the crew schedule change checklist for wider impact review and see Alfie in Enfin.

Final control before closure. For “Update a project schedule with Alfie after reviewing every dependency”, review four points together. Is the source current and attached to the correct customer, quote, invoice or project? Does the user have authority for this exact change? Are uncertain fields, conflicts and missing evidence still visible? Does the result name an owner for the next step? Record exceptions in the business file, not only in a separate conversation. Another colleague should be able to distinguish what was proposed, what was confirmed and what was deliberately left unknown. Test the flow with a wrong record, a duplicate document and a withdrawn instruction as well. A governed action should stop before execution in each case and let the user correct the proposal safely.