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BL Layout Standard
Your default starting view — clean Gantt with the columns most planners want on day one. Use it as your home base before drilling into the QC layouts.
Baseline
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Late Finish > XXXDATE
Highlights every activity with a Late Finish beyond a chosen contract milestone. Edit the date in the filter to suit any sectional completion or key date.
Risk
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No Predecessors
Surfaces dangling activities with no logical driver. The first half of DCMA Check #1 — every activity (bar the project start) should have a predecessor.
DCMA #1
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No Successor
Catches open ends — activities with no successor that break the network and create false float. The second half of DCMA Check #1.
DCMA #1
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No Predecessor & Successor
The orphans — activities completely disconnected from the network. Rare, but devastating when present. Always run this on third‑party schedules.
Logic
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Hard Constraints
Lists every Mandatory Start and Mandatory Finish — the constraints that override CPM logic. DCMA #6: hard constraints should be ≤ 5% of incomplete activities.
DCMA #6
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Total Float > 200 days
Highlights extreme float — usually a sign of missing successors or bad logic. DCMA #4 thresholds vary, but anything past 200 days deserves a second look.
DCMA #4
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Actual Finish > DD
Catches invalid actuals — activities marked complete after the data date. A classic statusing error that quietly wrecks earned value calculations.
Actuals
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All Constraints
A wider net than #06 — every activity carrying any constraint type. Useful for the constraint audit conversation with your contractor or client.
DCMA #6
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Critical
Pure longest path view — only critical activities, sorted ready for the next critical path narrative. Pair with #14 to tell the negative float story.
DCMA #8
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As Late As Possible (ALAP)
Flags every ALAP constraint — a planner's red flag because it consumes float silently and hides risk in the late dates.
DCMA #6
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Actual Start > DD
The other half of the actuals audit — activities started after the data date are statusing errors that break the historic record.
Actuals
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Progress: 100% but Not Complete
Activities sitting at 100% with no Actual Finish — either a missing actual or a false claim. Either way, the schedule is lying to you.
Statusing
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Negative Float
Anything below zero — the schedule cannot meet the planned date and there is recovery, mitigation or an EOT discussion to be had. DCMA #5.
DCMA #5
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Expected Finish ≤ DD
Surfaces Expected Finish constraints that are now in the past — a stealth issue that distorts forecast finishes if left unchecked.
Forecast
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Finish Date Discrepancy
Picks up activities where the planned finish and forecast finish disagree without a corresponding logic or duration change. Investigate before the next IPS.
Forecast
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Float > 400 days
A more aggressive float filter for very long programmes — often catches detached chains or work that hasn't been logically integrated yet.
DCMA #4
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Start Date Discrepancy
The mirror of #16 — flags activities where planned start and forecast start disagree, signalling either a logic issue or unclaimed slippage.
Forecast
