DOTs have received historic investments in infrastructure at a time of strong headwinds, including labor undersupply, material supply shortages, equipment scarcity, and supply chain disruptions. As DOTs and sister agencies rethink their capital planning strategies and long-range planning efforts in the face of changing social and economic climates, having a clear assessment of available labor, ability to optimize capital delivery based on market capacity, and developing action plans is paramount. Generative scheduling (or ‘parametric scheduling’) is a data-driven approach to project delivery scheduling and construction sequencing that acts as a ready-to-use optimization engine that leverages both latest progresses in Advanced Analytics as well as proven Lean construction methods.

(Bryan Pounds, McKinsey & Co)