How does the Schedule Quality Checker Work?

SmartPM’s Schedule Quality Checker evaluates your project schedule to ensure it’s built with best practices before updates are finalized. The proprietary scheduling engine assesses the logical sequencing of activities, the allocation of float, and overall timeline feasibility, identifying any inconsistencies or unrealistic planning that could impact the project at every update.

What types of errors can SmartPM identify in my schedule?

The Schedule Quality Checker identifies the level of risk in your schedule’s data by analyzing up to 35 metrics throughout the project lifecycle. These include metrics like missing logic, unrealistic timeline allocations, high durations, and discrepancies in activities between updates. Highlighting these issues allows teams to make necessary adjustments for a more accurate and feasible schedule.

How does repairing schedules with SmartPM improve project outcomes?

By using SmartPM to identify and correct scheduling errors, project teams can avoid potential delays and cost overruns that result from poor scheduling practices. Repairing schedules ensures that all project activities are properly accounted for, leading to smoother project execution and increased likelihood of on-time, within-budget delivery.

What standards does the Schedule Quality Checker use to define a high-quality schedule?

The Schedule Quality Checker evaluates schedule quality using industry-standard best practices and methodologies. Users can create a custom grading structure to evaluate their schedules, choosing from over 35 metrics to suit their specific project types, industries, clients, or any other parameter.

How frequently should I run a Schedule Quality Check using SmartPM?

Quality should be assessed at every update or any time a schedule is changed - ideally weekly or bi-weekly, but monthly is okay. Regardless, analyzing construction schedule quality before finalizing any updates is key to maintaining the trustworthiness of the analysis and control over the schedule.

Construction Schedule Quality Analysis | Identify Risk Early

The Schedule Quality Checker runs over 35 CPM quality checks to confirm that your schdule is complete, realistic, and reliable. It identifies missing logic, negative float, out-of-sequence work, and other hidden risks that can lead to delays later on.

Verify logic integrity and activity relationships
Confirm realistic durations and sequence flow
Detect compression, constraints, and float erosion
Benchmark every schedule against internal standards

Your schedule is only as good as the data behind it – SmartPM ensures that data is sound.

Schedule Quality Grade™

Clear letter, color, or score based on 30+ quality checks.

Activity-Level Flags

Know which activities are hurting your grade and why.

Gantt Overlay View

Visualize logic issues inside your schedule layout.

Custom Grading Profiles

Create rubrics by client, division, or project type.

Quality Trends

Track improvements or slippage over time.

Model-Based Analysis

Run the same quality check across updates in one click.

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“Incredible Schedule Analytics Tool. SmartPM is super easy to learn and very effective when trying to communicate what is going on in the schedule. It is so quick and easy to upload your schedules into the software and within minutes have all of the metrics at your fingertips.”

“Some metrics we looked at in the past were lagging indicators. SmartPM provides leading indicators that give us time to adjust early and with more confidence.”

“SmartPM did everything we needed it to do and more. It allows us to identify potential roadblocks in our schedule – and do it early enough to remediate the issues.”

“Information to our owners is now 10X greater than before we had SmartPM. We uncovered a lot of risks that we did not know we had.

“The dashboard is easy at a glance. You can see health, compression, and the real end date in a single view.”

“The Windows Analysis is a game changer. What used to take me weeks or months on some projects now takes minutes or hours. I don't want to analyze any project without SmartPM anymore.”

“SmartPM’s interface was superior versus the competition, with essential metrics and reports clearly displayed and easy to find.”

“SmartPM is really helping us find and deal with the flaws in our baseline schedules and weekly updated schedules. It is saving us a lot of time by providing a cheat sheet on any issues with the schedule and points us right to the issue at hand instead of having to go dig for it.”

“The integration between SmartPM and Procore is huge for us because we don’t have to reinvent the wheel. We just add SmartPM into our current process to supplement it rather than change it.”