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Learn to review a schedule and how each part of the dashboard helps you do it.

Free guides and video tutorials for planners, schedulers and project controls teams. Each one explains part of a Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project review, then shows where to find it in the Trestle Path dashboard and how to read what it shows, worked on a demonstration construction schedule. No account needed.

  • The method. What to check in a schedule, and why it matters.
  • The dashboard. Which section answers it, and how to use it.

01 · Topic

Start here

What a full review covers, how to read its first screen, how to open an XER without P6, and how every number is checked.

4 guides
Sample reviewA full schedule review, section by sectionEvery section of a review walked through on a demonstration metro schedule.10 min readRead → OverviewSchedule health at a glanceHow the health grade is scored, where the verdict sits and what needs your attention first.13 min readRead → XER filesOpen and read an XER without P6What an XER holds, what a viewer shows and what it cannot, read in your own browser.4 min readRead → MethodologyHow the numbers are checkedEvery figure worked out again from the activities and links, and proved against P6’s own scheduling.7 min readRead →

02 · Topic

Quality and logic

Is the schedule fit to rely on? DCMA, logic, the critical path, calendars, durations and the WBS.

8 guides
VideoDCMA 14-PointDCMA 14-point assessment, check by checkWhat each check counts, its threshold, and what a fail means and does not mean.11 min readRead → VideoLogic & NetworkSchedule logic healthOpen ends, dangling logic, leads, lags, SF links and out-of-sequence progress.13 min readRead → VideoCritical pathCritical path, longest path and float pathsWhy one P6 update can show five different critical-path counts, and how each is defined.15 min readRead → Logic TracerTracing the driving predecessorWhich link drives each date by P6’s own rule, and how far every other link misses.13 min readRead → VideoLogic repairDangling and redundant logicHow to find it, what it costs a forecast, and how to repair it without moving a date.8 min readRead → VideoCalendarsCalendars in a schedule reviewHours per day, working weeks, holidays and calendar edits between updates.10 min readRead → VideoDuration AnalysisActivity duration analysisLong and zero durations, round-number estimates, and actual against planned.11 min readRead → VideoWBS BreakdownWBS roll-upWhere the work, the critical path and the slip sit, rolled up by P6’s own rules.12 min readRead →

03 · Topic

Updates and delay

What changed since last month, what is overdue, and how much delay a milestone can take.

5 guides
VideoComparing updatesComparing two P6 updatesWhat a month-over-month comparison checks: dates, progress, scope, logic and float.9 min readRead → VideoRelationship changesRelationship changes between updatesEvery link added, removed, retyped or re-lagged, and why lag is compared in hours.12 min readRead → Delayed activitiesDelayed activities in an updateThe overdue backlog against last month’s plan: what fell due and what was carried forward.9 min readRead → VideoDelay analysisSchedule delay analysis, four pathsA submitted time impact analysis, this month’s update, or the delay over months.12 min readRead → VideoDelay absorptionDelay absorptionHow much slip an activity can take before a milestone moves.12 min readRead →

04 · Topic

Performance and risk

Earned value, resource performance period by period, and the work that meets bad weather.

3 guides
VideoEarned valueEarned value on a P6 scheduleSPI, Earned Schedule and SPI(t), the to-complete indices and the late-dates test.13 min readRead → VideoResource performanceResource performance, period by periodPlanned against actual units from a resource-loaded P6 schedule.10 min readRead → Weather riskSeasonal weather riskWhich work meets bad weather, counted on each activity’s own calendar.9 min readRead →

05 · Topic

Reading, files and reports

Read the schedule the way it was built, find any activity, and send the review out.

6 guides
VideoSchedule ReaderReading a schedule the way it was builtWBS bands with roll-ups, a P6-style Gantt with baseline bars and the driving chain.13 min readRead → Activity ExplorerFinding any activityTiles that count the critical, near-critical and constrained work, and filters that stack.10 min readRead → VideoLinear schedulesLinear schedules from a P6 fileA time-chainage diagram drawn from the schedule, without re-entering the plan.10 min readRead → MS Project XMLReviewing an MS Project XML exportWhat the export carries, how tasks are matched by Unique ID, and the traps.8 min readRead → Report ComposerBuilding a schedule review reportStart from a layout, add your commentary, then PDF, Word, PowerPoint or Excel.11 min readRead → VideoReview workbookA schedule review in one Excel workbookThe verdict, logic, critical path, durations, progress and every change, tab by tab.13 min readRead →

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Video tutorials

Walkthroughs on the live dashboard and the free tools, with chapters you can jump between. New tutorials are added regularly.

DCMA 14-Point AssessmentFourteen checks Logic & Network HealthFive questions Critical Path & FloatWhich chain sets the finish Redundant & Dangling LogicClean and repair P6 logic P6 calendarsWhy 10 working days show as 12.5 Duration AnalysisCan you trust the durations? Read a P6 WBSWhy a 187-day slip vanishes one level up Month-over-MonthWhat really changed this update 27 logic changes in one P6 updateHow to review them Delay Analysis & ValidationFive case studies Delay AbsorptionWhen does the date really move? Earned Value Management for SchedulersWhy SPI Ends at 1.00 Resource PerformanceS-curves and the stored record 8 checks for every monthly P6 schedule updateThe full tutorial Linear ScheduleWhen and where the work happens Quality & Forensic ReportOne workbook, one pack Production Rates for SchedulingIs 4 Days for 12,000 t Feasible?

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Free tools

Two tools that run in your browser, free, with nothing sent anywhere.

MS Project to P6 converter

Turns a Microsoft Project .mpp or .xml schedule into a Primavera P6 XER, with calendars, WBS, milestones and lags as a P6 scheduler expects, and a report of every change.

Open the converter → Production rates and duration checker

Low, typical and high production rates for civil and infrastructure work. Estimate an activity's duration, or check a contractor's duration or a whole list.

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Try it on your own schedule

Fourteen days free, no credit card, every section open. Your XER or XML file is read in your browser and never uploaded.

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