Delay Analysis Methods
Pacing Delay
Pacing delay is a deliberate slowdown of one's own work on a non-critical path, made in direct response to an already-existing excusable delay caused by the other party, to avoid finishing far ahead of a schedule the other party has already delayed.
Definition
Legitimate pacing generally requires three things: it must be a genuine, deliberate, and ideally contemporaneously documented decision; it must be made in direct response to an already-existing excusable delay; and it must be reasonable in degree, roughly matching rather than exceeding the other party's delay. Pacing claimed only after the fact, without contemporaneous documentation, or wildly disproportionate to the delay it supposedly responds to, is often viewed skeptically as a post-hoc excuse for what was really just slow non-excusable performance.
Example
After an owner-caused 20-day delay to the structural steel path, a contractor deliberately reduces its finishes crew size on a separate, newly-float-rich path -- documented in a project meeting minute at the time -- so that path finishes closer to the now-delayed overall completion date rather than needlessly early.