Category: Business

  • 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…

  • Should You Ask a Company About Their Competition?

    Over 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 online marketing materials and resources.  I’ve always focused on…

  • Construction CPM

    Today is the first day of the Construction CPM Conference in Orlando. If you’re here, drop by and visit our booth. After being postponed twice due to COVID, it’s nice to see so many familiar faces and new friends.

  • 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.…

  • Designers and Discoverability

    When you cut the tags off of new clothes, you sometimes have to cut those tiny tag fasteners that look like this: They’re a pain to cut off. You have to be precise with your scissors or knife because you don’t want to cut the garment. Or yourself. I speak from experience here. So I…

  • Give Up the Hierarchy

    Think back to the days before software . . . We stored paper documents in folders and organized the folders in drawers and the drawers in filing cabinets.   We kept our contacts information in a Rolodex or an address book, organized alphabetically. When we needed some information from a book, we’d go to the library…

  • Introducing: Monthly Subscriptions

    Some of you have noticed that we added a new option for purchasing our Project Analyzer product: monthly subscriptions. We believe that this will be a better option for those of you who have been purchasing an annual subscription to use on schedules where your time on the project is measured in months, not years.…

  • Steelray Statement on install4jshell

    Our products, including the open-source and third-party packages used by our products, do not use (and have not used) the Apache log4j framework; they are not impacted by the log4jshell vulnerability.

  • Working From Home

    In an organization where you are valued based on your results, working from home vs. the office shouldn’t be a big issue. With webcams, Slack, online meeting software, cloud storage, etc., the drawbacks are minimal. Some managers worry about how their remote employees are spending their time. What if they spend half their day binge-watching…

  • Should You Ask a Vendor About Competitors?

    We were giving a demo the other day of two new products we’re working on, and near the end, one of the people on the call posed this question; how do we compare to [Competing Product X]? It’s a question I am asked from time to time, but one that makes me a little uncomfortable.…