Category: Delay Analysis

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Delay Analyzer 0.20

    Delay Analyzer 0.20 is released. Click on the title above to learn more.

  • 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!

  • Cheat Sheet for Delay Analyzer

    Steelray Delay Analyzer has a number of mouse and keyboard shortcuts that can save you quite a bit of time. Even if you only use Delay Analyzer infrequently, it’s well worth the time it takes to learn these shortcuts. To make the process easier, we’ve developed a cheat sheet which you can download here.

  • 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…