Articles, releases, and random thoughts on scheduling, schedule analysis, and project management.
Last time, we left off with a problem: schedule-comparison tools flag an activity as “delayed” whether it actually fell behind or just inherited a late start from its predecessor. They can’t tell fault from inheritance — so schedulers end up defending delays that were never really…
Read the postEvery scheduler knows this meeting. You submit the monthly update, and someone — the PM, the owner’s rep, sometimes your own management — pulls up the schedule comparison and points at an activity: this one slipped three days. What happened? Half the time, the honest answer…
Read the postIn the latest update of Chrome, I noticed that they introduced a new feature: the ability to relocate your tabs to a vertical list on the left side if the window. I thought, “That’s very weird,” so (of course) I tried it. My verdict: It is…
Read the postEvery project manager knows the feeling. The latest schedule update lands, the finish date has moved out another two weeks, and the question everyone’s about to ask is the one you can’t yet answer: why? You know that it slipped. What’s harder — and what actually…
Read the postEvery 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…
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