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PM^Complete™ First Software to Check for PMI® Practice Standard for Scheduling Conformance

PMComplete Pty Ltd released a version of its flagship product PM^Complete™ on 26th July, 2006 that will analyse and measure a project's schedule and report on its conformance with the draft PMI® Practice Standard for Scheduling released on 13th July, 2006.

The speed with which PMComplete Pty Ltd was able to implement this is not all that remarkable because staff at PMComplete Pty Ltd are experts in the scheduling field coupled with the pre-exisiting PM^Complete™ Schedule Analysis report that had many of the requirements previously built into it.

Details

System Users simply import their schedules into PM^Complete™ from Microsoft® Project and then invoke the Project's Schedule Analysis report.  Options on this report allow for analysing template schedules, in-planning phase schedules and in-progress schedules.  These differences allow for the fact that templates and in-planning phase schedules should not have actuals and baselines.  A nicely formatted report listing all non-conformances is produced that allows Schedulers to immediately revise their schedules.

The Schedule Analysis report is for those people who are serious about their schedules and don't just want to "draw pretty bar charts" with Microsoft® Project.  This report assists Project Managers and Schedulers to get their schedules into shape.

From a PMO perspective, this report can be used to quickly assess the mechanical aspects of a schedule, thus freeing up time to concentrate on the project logic that should be expressed in the schedule, thereby improving schedule quality.

Many additional checks over and above those mandated by the PMI® Practice Standard for Scheduling can also be performed.  Many of these have been implemented to detect poor usage of Microsoft® Project (eg, Milestone and Summary tasks with resources assigned).  Various options exist for tailoring the checks that will be performed on the schedule.

Over 45 different checks are performed on the schedule as a whole, over 45 are performed on each task with many more being performed on each resource and the calendar.  These checks are much more sophisticated than the ones that are performed by the debug macros that we distribute at our "Advanced Project Scheduling Using Microsoft Project" training course.  Specific conformance metrics are also kept.

Service

This Schedule Analysis functionality can be acquired by licensing the PM^Complete™ product or by signing up for just the Schedule Analysis Package.  This is an Internet accessible on-line service that provides freestanding individuals and companies with the ability to upload an unlimited number of schedules an unlimited number of times and have an analysis report produced for them.  This Schedule Analysis improves the quality of schedules and Schedulers.

If you think you are pretty good at scheduling, have a pretty good schedule or are just curious, why not arrange to have one of your schedules analysed for free?

Please contact us to arrange for a free demonstration or to discuss terms, conditions and pricing.