RichardBarkleyProject Controls & Capital Advisory
2.0 — WHAT WE DO

6 practices.
49 services.

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2.03 · 7 services

Owner's Advisory & Assurance

Independent senior counsel for owners, boards and investors, from investment decision through recovery and handover.

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2.05 · 5 services

Controls Intelligence

Power BI, executive analytics and forecasting that give capital leaders decision-grade foresight.

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2.06 · 6 services

The Barkley Institute

Practitioner-taught courses and executive education in P6, scheduling, controls and delay analysis.

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Featured practice

Command of the critical path.

1.0 — WHO WE ARE

Independent. Senior. Decisive.

The controls partner owners call when the date cannot move.

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3.0 — MARKETS

Sector fluency. One standard.

We know where each sector hides its schedule risk.

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4.0 — PROJECTS

Representative work. Every client confidential.

60 featured projects across 17 sectors. Every client confidential.

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7.0 — INSIGHTS

Decision-grade thinking.

Field notes, papers and briefings for the people who fund and build.

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9.0 — CAREERS

Do the most consequential work of your career.

For planners, cost engineers and analysts who want their judgment to matter.

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Technology 6.1.4 · Project ControlsREF 6.1.4

Deltek Acumen

Schedule quality diagnostics, risk simulation and version comparison, used to test a schedule before anyone relies on it.

FIG. 01 — Deltek Acumen
PlatformDeltek Acumen
VendorDeltek
GroupProject Controls
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Data date
StanceIndependent
Our view

Before a schedule is believed, it should be tested.

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Deltek Acumen is widely used for schedule quality analysis, risk simulation and benchmarking. It runs metrics such as the DCMA 14-Point Assessment, compares updates and quantifies uncertainty through Monte Carlo analysis.

We treat Acumen as one instrument inside an expert review, never as the review itself. Automated diagnostics are paired with practitioner judgment to separate cosmetic findings from real reliability risk, and risk workshops turn uncertainty into P50 and P80 dates that leadership can plan against.

How we use it

Deltek Acumen, in expert hands

Software does not control projects. People who know it deeply do.

USE-01

Schedule quality

DCMA 14-Point and tailored metric libraries applied to every schedule we review.

USE-02

Risk simulation

Monte Carlo analysis and facilitated workshops producing defensible P50 and P80 dates.

USE-03

Update comparison

Version-to-version analysis exposing changes to logic, durations and dates.

The next step

Make your platforms earn their keep.

We will show you what the tools you already own can tell your board, once they are configured, integrated and run by people who live in them.