It’s been a while since our last post, but we just thought we’d make a minor announcement or two!

Personnel

Firstly, congratulations are in order to Rachel who two weeks ago started in her new role as Project Manager for e3learning. Rachel has proven herself to be a most valued resource and we wish her all the best in her transition to her new company.

Our Software

Secondly, our development engines have been burning away and our new schedule health check tool is near completion. Aptly named as Schedule Doctor, the application accepts the following project schedules:

• Microsoft Project 2003, 2007
• Open Plan
• Primavera

The Schedule Doctor simply loads a schedule and uses 20+ rules for scheduling, developed by GBA, to analyse your project schedule. Performing a simple schedule health check before baselining and agreeing your plans could save you costly litigation and Extension of Time (EOT) claims later on in your project. But why? Why do we need this tool?

To put it simply, over the last 3 months, GBA has been involved in analysing over 10 different project schedules, currently in litigation because:

• Some schedules had no visible critical path due to poor planning
• Poor logic and relationships, relationships that do not make sense
• Inappropriate use of constraints
• Poor progressing standards, and inaccruate reporting of progress
• Very badly managed baseline data

Our new software will assist you in analysing your project for potential problems early on in the planning phase. For more information please jump over to our new Schedule Doctor Page.

It is anticipated that Artemis, Pertmaster, Open Project and MicroPlanner will also make an appearance in the second release.

We anticipate that you will gain satisfaction from the product because you will have not only a greater appreciation for project scheduling, but your agreed contract schedules will be of a higher quality and assist you to avoid lengthy and costly disputes.