Steelray Blog

Category: Project Management

  • Changes to Steelray Project Analyzer’s Criteria Manager

    Back 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:

  • Changing the Economics of Schedule Delay Analysis

    In 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 as a half-step analysis. Half-step delay analysis answers the…

  • ChatGPT Wrote This Article

    I asked ChatGPT to explain what one of our products (Steelray Delay Analyzer) does, and I was blown away by its response. It was correct on all but one point: it doesn’t yet support Microsoft Project. I was conversing with it about forensic delay analysis, and I asked: “What about Steelray Delay Analyzer?” Here was…

  • Happy Quadruple Day

    At the beginning of each workday, I take about five minutes and consider what I want to accomplish that day. Each Monday, I take extra time to consider the week ahead and what I intend to get done by Friday. And, of course, the first workday of the month finds me planning for the month.…

  • New Videos for Delay Analyzer

    We’ve had a few new version releases of Delay Analyzer. Version 0.16 was big enough that we did a “what’s new” video for that release: We also made a video showing how you can use Delay Analyzer to quickly solve mysteries around how and why the finish date moved: Happy watching!

  • Join Us at the PMCOS Annual Conference

    After such a long hiatus from in-person conferences, we are excited to be presenting and exhibiting at the 5th Annual International Conference, Scheduling and All That Jazz!, April 10 – 13, 2022. Brian Leach will be presenting on the challenges faced, obstacles encountered, and some of the remaining hurdles to be covered in Steelray’s quest for…

  • Dawn of the 3D Gantt Chart

    My company has been in R&D mode for several years now, and one area of focus has been to try to reinvent and improve the Gantt Chart.  Gantt charts use the Y-axis to display the WBS and the X-axis to show the timeline.  The data date (or status date) is rendered as a vertical line…

  • Introducing . . . Analyzer for P6

    Yesterday (February 9, 2022), we released a new software product: Steelray Analyzer for P6. In a nutshell, Analyzer for P6 (AP6) is a streamlined schedule quality and performance analysis tool that is designed from scratch to work with Primavera P6 XER files. You use it to find potential issues with your schedule, both from a…

  • Keep the Deliverable in Mind

    I had just finished running a quick test on a new Analyzer release. We had released a new version recently, and during the installation, Microsoft Defender SmartScreen (part of Windows) did not love our new installer. It warned you that the setup program wasn’t to be fully trusted. Yikes. I won’t go into the details,…

  • New Video: Healthy Conflict in Projects, Part 2