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Long-form, written for the person who has to defend the programme rather than describe it. Two of them, deliberately — we would rather have two worth reading than six that repeat what is already on the first page of Google.

The 14 DCMA checks explained One section per check: the threshold, why it exists, what a failure actually means, and how to fix it in P6 or MS Project. Including which checks can be gamed, and why doing so makes the schedule worse. Schedule quality checklist Ten checks before a monthly programme leaves your office, each with what the failure costs. The last three are the ones no tool can run for you.

Run the structural half automatically

Most of what the schedule-quality checklist covers is measurable from the file itself — which is what the free DCMA 14-point checker does, in your browser, without uploading anything. What it deliberately will not do is report a check as passed when your export lacks the data to assess it.

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Free toolsTen calculators and checkers, no signup ComparisonsTools, categories and forecasting methods P6 reportingFrom an .xer to a client-ready monthly report Project controls softwareWhat it is, what it replaces, and how it differs from PM software

A clean schedule is the start, not the finish

Once the programme is sound, the monthly question changes from "can we trust this?" to "what is it telling us?" Aegis reads the same P6 or MS Project export each period and answers the second one.

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