While the interviews enabled an in-depth analysis of some construction
programming issues, the relatively small sample size used
(which is often the case for qualitative methods) limits the ability to
generalize the results, but does increase correspondence to reality.
The findings reflect construction schedulers’ local practice and
their knowledge, intuition, and experience, which provide insights
into the perceived theories of programming issues that influence
delay analysis. Such insights provide a better understanding of
the key issues that need attention if improvements are to be made
in delay claim resolutions. Additional research that focuses on testing
of the results and other theories using a much larger sample, and
rigorous statistical analysis for generalization purposes, would be
helpful in advancing the limited knowledge of this subject matter.