Practical, field-tested writing on DCMA 14-Point analysis, schedule quality, and project controls — from a working construction scheduler.
Federal and infrastructure owners often grade schedules against the GAO Schedule Assessment Guide. Here are its four characteristics and ten best practices, plus the three things GAO checks that DCMA skips.
Read the articleAlmost every owner now judges your schedule by the same fourteen tests. The complete map — what each check measures, its threshold, and what a failure is really telling you — with deep dives on the two that trip schedulers up most.
Read the articleA negative lag isn't a head start — it's a lie about how the work actually happens. The four reasons schedulers give for leads (and why three are wrong), how to find every one in P6, and a five-step fix sequence to pass Check #2 with honest logic.
Read the articleNegative float is the most common DCMA finding I see, and it's almost always one of five things. Here's how to trace it to its real source, fix it in order, and never get blindsided by it again — without editing the schedule until the red goes away.
Read the articleWhy constraints creep into schedules — and how to replace wish dates with logic that holds up under review.
Coming soonWhat P50, P80, and P90 actually mean for your committed date — and how to talk about them with an owner.
Coming soonThe handful of logic and calendar decisions that keep a schedule honest once actuals start rolling in.
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