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Schedule Assistant

OPDEC’s Schedule Assistant Tool elevates your productivity and efficiency

The OPDEC Schedule Assistant combines Microsoft Project navigation, efficiency, compliance, analysis, and reporting tools in a single add-in. It was built by Project power-users to help extract the most use from it: build schedules, input status updates, analyze schedule health, enforce compliance, and deliver insightful reports to bring expertise with a click to your team.

The OPDEC Schedule Addistant Ribbon

Watch the Schedule Assistant Overview

Schedule Assistance features list:

  • Navigate Tasks:
      • The Navigate Tasks tool unlocks the ability to traverse task link chains within the schedule!
        • Launch with a task selected then click on the predecessor/successor task hyperlinks to move the visible selection in Project and switch the current task display to show the newly selected task information.
      • Your navigation history is stored! Use the Back/Forward buttons to skim through entire task networks.
  • Inspect Schedule:
      • The Inspect Schedule tool contains a series of schedule health checks broken into three categories: DCMA 14-Point, DECM, and OPDEC.
        • It performs the DCMA 14-Point Assessment and the schedule related DCMA EVMS Compliance Metrics (DECMs) in accordance with DCMA’s requirements.
        • The OPDEC checks identify other potential schedule health issues.
      • Each check can be selected to filter your Project file to show the impacted activities.
      • The inspection results can be exported to Excel with a detailed analysis of each check.
  • Schedule Reports:
      • The Schedule Reports allow users to create an Excel file containing a variety of customizable reports including:
        • Reports Dashboard
        • Baseline Summary Alignment
        • Slipped Tasks and Look Ahead
        • Tasks Needing Status
        • Period/Baseline Variances
        • CEI and BEI trends
        • Major Event Summary trend
  • Plus much more! Find more about what else the Schedule Assistant can do for you including:
      • Includes OPDEC’s Network Trace Tool that allows users to easily identify all of the activities leading up to, back from, or in-between one or more points in the schedule.
      • Track real-time date impacts to significant milestone tasks in your schedule instantly as you perform edits.
      • Add common tasks as logic links (with custom link type) to many activities at once.
      • Add prefixes and suffixes to task names to easily set naming conventions throughout the schedule.
      • Exempt tasks from individual schedule inspection checks and/or reports.
      • Set prior start/finish dates for easy variance analysis.

Pricing

Buy New License Now! $799
Volume discounts available at checkout.

New licenses include 1 year of M&S (maintenance and support) from the date of purchase; additional years sold separately.

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Requirements

  • Microsoft Project 2010+. Note that only local desktop client versions are compatible
  • Microsoft Excel 2010+. Note that only local desktop client versions are compatible
  • Windows 10 or later
  • End User License Agreement

Downloads

  • Latest Release
    Download  |  Video | Purchase
    Build 25.0.0 | January 5, 2026
  • All software can be used as a 30-day trial

Contact sales@opdec.com for more information.