Category: Analyzers

  • Announcing: a Limited-time Promotion

    We think Steelray Analyzer for P6, our schedule health tool for Primavera P6 schedules, is a great value, and we’d like everyone (but especially Delay Analyzer customers) to try it.  That’s why we’re excited to announce a new, limited-time promotion.  Beginning today and until we decide to end the promotion, customers who purchase an annual…

  • 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:

  • Project Analyzer 7.18.7

    Version 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 reports that make it clearer how existing criteria will…

  • Delay Analyzer Release 0.42.0

    We are pleased to announce the release of Steelray Delay Analyzer 0.42.0. New in this release:

  • Forward Looking Duration in Delay Analyzer 0.41.0

    We’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 progress delays occurred.  You’re aware of the delays, but…

  • Spotlight on RP 29R-03

    Mark 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

  • 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…

  • Delay Analyzer 0.33

    We 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 dates for every .xer file in a given directory.…

  • 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…

  • New Release of Delay Analyzer

    As some of you know, we released a new product last year called Steelray Delay Analyzer. It takes two or more Primavera P6 schedules, runs a comparison and half-step delay analysis, and identifies and quantifies exactly which changes moved the finish date. If you haven’t seen it, we have a 3-minute video that briefly shows…