Upload two Primavera P6 XER/Excel updates, compare baseline vs current vs previous, then generate a Power BI report with milestone movement, driving paths and recovery tracking.
Compare Schedules
Upload two Primavera P6 XER/Excel updates, compare baseline vs current vs previous, then generate a Power BI report with milestone movement, driving-path changes and recovery tracking.
Milestone drift
Driving paths
Recovery view
Brainbay aligns activities by ID, compares data dates, and surfaces moved milestones, changed logic, re-sequenced float and new critical paths before creating the .pbix.
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How Brainbay Compare Schedules supports better controls
Brainbay’s comparison tool turns two schedule updates into a clear change story: which milestones moved, which logic changed, and which driving paths now govern the finish date. Planners can trace every movement back to the specific activity, relationship or constraint in the uploaded XER/Excel — no black-box delta. The report supports update-to-update reviews, recovery tracking and contractor discussions, and pairs with the Project Analyzer, Schedule Health and Progress & EVM tools.
Why comparing Primavera P6 schedules update to update matters
A Primavera P6 schedule is only as honest as its last update, and the value is in the delta between updates, not the snapshot. Brainbay Compare Schedules turns two XER or Excel updates into a clear change story: which milestones moved, which logic changed, and which driving paths now govern the finish date. Instead of eyeballing two Gantt charts, planners read a ranked list of movements traced back to the exact activity, relationship or constraint that caused them.
Milestone drift and the finish date
Most delay shows up first as milestone drift, long before the critical path visibly moves. By aligning activities by ID across data dates, Brainbay surfaces milestones that slipped more than five days and the WBS they sit in, so recovery conversations start with the right package. The illustrative output shows finish-date movement by WBS — the kind of view a contractor dispute turns on.
Driving paths and recovery tracking
When logic changes, the driving path can shift silently. Brainbay flags new critical paths and re-sequenced float so the recovery plan targets the activities that actually govern the date, not the ones that look busy. Tracked update to update, this becomes a recovery narrative management can trust during a claim or a monthly review.
Compare Schedules alongside the Brainbay suite
The same two updates that feed comparison also feed the Progress & EVM report and the Schedule Health checker. One upload, three views — movement, value, and logic quality — all from the same source file, with nothing hidden in a black box.