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 6.1.3 · Project ControlsREF 6.1.3

Microsoft Project

Familiar scheduling for owner teams and PMOs, held to the same CPM standards as any enterprise platform.

FIG. 01 — Microsoft Project
PlatformMicrosoft Project
VendorMicrosoft
GroupProject Controls
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Data date
StanceIndependent
Our view

A familiar tool can still produce a decision-grade schedule.

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Microsoft Project is often the scheduling tool closest to the business: owner teams, PMOs and smaller capital projects rely on it daily. The software is rarely the problem. Missing logic, hard constraints and unmanaged baselines usually are.

We bring professional CPM discipline to Microsoft Project: sound logic, proper baselining and status practice, standard templates for repeatable project types, and clean connections to Power BI so owner reporting draws from the schedule rather than from a slide.

How we use it

Microsoft Project, in expert hands

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

USE-01

Standard templates

Logic-sound templates for repeatable project types.

USE-02

CPM practice

Baselining, status and critical path methods properly applied.

USE-03

Reporting links

Schedule data connected to Power BI and owner reporting.

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.