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Methods and review habits for schedule updates, project controls, and evidence-backed owner reporting.
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October 17, 2026 · 5 min read
The Update Progress command writes planned dates into actual date fields. Use it for work that ran to plan, status the rest from field records, and choose Retained Logic or Progress Override on purpose.
October 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Open an .xer or .xml schedule file, a Microsoft Project .xml or an SDEF file in your browser for free, with the WBS, a Gantt, logic ties and float paths, and the file never leaves your computer.
October 8, 2026 · 10 min read
What a construction delay analysis measures, how the AACE 29R-03 methods differ, which records each one needs, and how to run an analysis from schedule updates that a reviewer can retrace.
September 29, 2026 · 5 min read
What goes in a schedule handover package besides the XER, and a one-question test that shows whether the next scheduler can actually continue the work.
September 28, 2026 · 6 min read
A ten-field action log for schedule review findings that closes each question on evidence and carries open ones into the next update under the same ID.
September 27, 2026 · 5 min read
Before anyone quotes hours saved on schedule reporting, time the monthly schedule update package step by step, from Progress Spotlight to the issued narrative, including review and correction.
September 26, 2026 · 5 min read
DOE selected 21 geothermal projects on September 21 without committing to award them. How to carry funding and approval gates in a construction schedule as named events with evidence, each tied only to the work it releases.
September 24, 2026 · 6 min read
Write the monthly owner schedule narrative around the milestone that moved, the evidence behind it and the decision needed, with the activity comparison kept as backup.
September 23, 2026 · 6 min read
Let software sort the field-level changes between two schedule updates, and keep the reason each milestone moved tied to a record a scheduler has checked.
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