Articles, releases, and random thoughts on scheduling, schedule analysis, and project management.
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…
Read the postWe 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…
Read the postI 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…
Read the postAs 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…
Read the postToday 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.
Read the postVersion 7.15.0 of Steelray Project Analyzer is now available. The most notable difference is that with this release, Project Analyzer supports the Microsoft Project platform only. Primavera schedule health analysis is available in our Analyzer for P6 product. Additionally, the release contains the following: To download…
Read the postAt 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…
Read the postWhen 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.…
Read the postDelay Analyzer 0.20 is released. Click on the title above to learn more.
Read the postWe’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…
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