Free Edition

Check a programme in ten seconds. Free.

Four of the fourteen DCMA schedule quality checks, in a spreadsheet, with no signup wall and no expiry. Paste in an activity list and a relationship table and find out whether the programme you have been sent is built properly.

See the full 14 checks

What you get free

These four need only what every scheduling tool can export. No float, no baseline, no resources required.

1

Logic

Activities missing a predecessor or successor. Open ends stop the schedule calculating properly. And the project start and finish milestones are correctly excluded, so you don't get two false positives on every run.

2

Leads

Negative lag, which hides logic and corrupts the critical path. There is never a good reason for it, so the threshold is zero.

3

Lags

Links padded with waiting time instead of modelling the work. Usually a missing activity in disguise.

4

Relationship types

The proportion of Finish-to-Start links. Heavy SS/FF use is normally overlapping guesswork rather than considered sequencing.

Free versus full

  Free Edition Full, £149
DCMA checks4All 14
Activity capacity2002,000
Per-activity findings
Adjustable thresholdsTwoAll
Float & constraint checks
CPLI and BEI
PriceFree£149

No expiry, no watermark, no nag screen on the free edition.

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Schedule Quality Analyser, Free Edition

One Excel file. No macros, so it will not be stripped by your mail filter. Works offline.

We'll email the file. We won't add you to anything you didn't ask for.

Need more than schedule checks?

The Free Edition tells you whether a programme is built properly. Once you know that, the next questions are what it will cost, when it will finish, and what the change and risk exposure is. These are the tools for those, each sold separately and each usable on its own.

All 14 checks

  • Float, constraint and baseline checks
  • CPLI and BEI
  • Per-activity findings, 2,000 activities
Schedule Quality Analyser, £149

Forecasting

  • Monte Carlo, P50 / P80 / P90
  • Earned Schedule and completion date
  • Cash flow and resource forecast
Forecast Engine, £299

CPM, EVM, risk and change

  • Critical path and float analysis
  • Earned value with CPI and SPI
  • Change and risk registers, cost and resources
The core suite, £299

Progress measurement

  • Rules of credit instead of opinion
  • Exception reporting on claimed progress
Progress Measurement, £199

Contract and claims

  • NEC4 clause 31.2 compliance and retention
  • Disruption measured against a measured mile
NEC4 Compliance, £249 Disruption Register, £279

Carbon

  • Capital carbon baseline and profile
  • Reduction register against target
Carbon & PAS 2080, £249

Nothing here is a subscription and nothing expires. Buy the one tool that solves this month's problem, or the complete suite for £1,399.

Questions

There isn't one. Four of the fourteen DCMA checks, no time limit, no watermark, no nag screen. If it saves you an argument about a subcontractor programme, you may come back for the other ten. If it doesn't, keep it anyway.
They need only an activity list and a relationship table. The minimum any scheduling tool can export. The other ten need float, baseline dates, constraints or resources, which not every export carries. These four work with whatever you have.
200 activities in the free edition, 2,000 in the full one. Enough to check a subcontractor submission or a single WBS branch.
Yes. It reads exported columns, not the source tool. Anything that exports activities and relationships to Excel works.
It ships with a 24-activity sample that fails on purpose, so you can see it working. Clear from row 5 down on both sheets and paste over it.

Four checks free. Ten more when you need them.

No signup wall, no expiry.