Articles, releases, and random thoughts on scheduling, schedule analysis, and project management.
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…
Read the postAfter 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…
Read the postMy 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…
Read the postThere’s a new version of our Delay Analyzer — version 0.14. You can read about it below, but we highly recommend you watch this 8-minute video which walks you through all of the new features. For those of you who don’t like watching videos (what?), here’s…
Read the postYesterday (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…
Read the postThink 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…
Read the postSome 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…
Read the postOur 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.
Read the postIn 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…
Read the postBut the grand visions of the past are gone. Today, instead of being a shorthand for technological prowess, Watson stands out as a sobering example of the pitfalls of technological hype and hubris around AI.” Article: What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson? The above article on…
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