The P6 Schedule Health Check Toolkit — DCMA 14-Point Audit Playbook + Excel Scorecard

Find the problems in your programme before the superintendent's consultant does.

A 60-minute audit workflow for Primavera P6, built from years of preparing programmes for acceptance and pulling other people's apart for delay claims. 24 checks, exact thresholds, step-by-step P6 method, and a client-ready findings memo you can send the same afternoon.

WHAT'S INSIDE

1) The Playbook (49-page PDF)

• The 30-to-60-minute audit workflow, timeboxed step by step
• - The DCMA 14-Point Assessment, one section per check: what it measures, the exact threshold, the precise P6 method, common causes, and the fix
• - The critical path push test, properly explained
• - Ten supplementary checks from Australian practice: dangling activities, out-of-sequence progress, calendar abuse, float suppression, Progress Override vs Retained Logic, baseline drift and more
• - A full worked example: an 812-activity commercial build audited before an EOT submission (a composite case drawn from real reviews, details changed)
• - The two-page findings memo template and the Red/Amber/Green rubric with a submit, submit-with-disclosure or do-not-submit decision rule

2) The Scorecard Workbook (Excel)

Paste your P6 activity and relationship exports into two sheets. The workbook calculates every DCMA point, flags the supplementary checks, builds the findings register and produces a one-page dashboard with an overall health score and a submission recommendation. Live formulas, no macros, no add-ins.

3) The Audit Layout Specification (Section 4 of the playbook)

Build the AUDIT layout in P6 once, then the monthly check takes 30 to 60 minutes.

WHO IT'S FOR

Planners and schedulers preparing programmes for acceptance under AS 4000, AS 2124 or amended head contracts; project controls managers; PMs and contract administrators defending a programme they did not build; anyone whose EOT rests on a programme that must survive a forensic review.

Written by a practising planner with years across Australian head contracts and international petrochemical delay and quantum claims. The method is anchored to the SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol and cross-checked against published forensic practice.

30-DAY REFUND, NO QUESTIONS ASKED

Run one audit on a copy of a live programme. If it does not find anything you would have been embarrassed to submit, email us for a full refund. You keep the files.

Requires P6 Professional (written and checked against 19.12 to 23.12) and Excel. No Acumen Fuse, no add-ins, nothing to install.