Discussion 1: Excusable Delays

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.

Discussion 2: Deepwater Program

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.