Articles, releases, and random thoughts on scheduling, schedule analysis, and project management.
Every construction litigator knows the moment. A project finished months late, the claim is worth millions, and the whole case turns on a deceptively simple question: which delays actually drove the late completion? Not which activities slipped. Not what changed between schedule updates. Which delays were…
Read the postIn project scheduling, the phrase “start-to-finish” should be avoided. Many of you who schedule know what I mean, but for the rest, all you need to know is that you should avoid it. Last Sunday, I found myself repeating the phrase “start-to-finish” as a mantra, although with…
Read the postBack in November we introduced some changes to the criteria manager, and Beth from our engineering team created a video explaining the improvements. Check it out:
Read the postVersion 7.18.7 of Steelray Project Analyzer is now available. This release features a redesign of the Criteria Manager, making it much easier to differentiate between Steelray’s built-in library of checks from checks that have been designed by the end user. There are also improvements to importing…
Read the postWe are pleased to announce the release of Steelray Delay Analyzer 0.42.0. New in this release:
Read the postWe’re excited to announce a new release of Steelray Delay Analyzer, version 0.41.0. There are many fixes and improvements in this release, but the biggest one is a feature called forward-looking validation. Suppose you’re looking at a delay analysis of an update period where some significant…
Read the postMark your calendars for the next webinar on RP 29R-03, MIP’s 3.6 and 3.7. https://www.pathlms.com/aace/courses/50359/webinars/38152
Read the postIn 2018, we began working on technology to automate a methodology for calculating the impact of schedule delays. We based it on MIP 3.4 from the AACEI Recommended Practice 29R-03, Forensic Schedule Analysis. Its official name is Observational / Dynamic / Contemporaneous Split, known more commonly…
Read the postOver the years, I’ve been asked how one of our products compares to a competitor. For years, I politely deflected answering the question. I’ve never felt I was qualified to answer because I’ve never used their product. My only knowledge was from competitive research via their…
Read the postWe are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Steelray Delay Analyzer version 0.33. New in this release: XER Catalog You can now create a “.xer catalog” (available from the Open Dataset dialog) that reports metadata like project name, activity count, last activity, and key milestone…
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