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// BROOKE HAILEY
International Channel Manager
An Introduction To:
& Acumen Cloud™
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Acumen
◦ Project Management Software Company
◦ Insight into challenges & use of
analytics to overcome them
◦ Core Concepts:
1. Project success requires a sound plan
2. Forecast accuracy requires risk
consideration
Proven Project Analytics
Product Offerings
Risk Workshops
Acumen Fuse®
Software Training
Realistic Scheduling
Critiqued
The Base
Risk-Adjusted
Optimized
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Better Planning Drives Project Success
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Project Analysis, Visualization & Resolution
A Sound Schedule is the Key to a Successful Project
Acumen Fuse®
◦ Project Analysis:
◦ Build sound, realistically do-able schedules without a manual critique
◦ Project Reporting:
◦ Generate ready-to-use reports on where a plan isn’t working and
options for course-correction
◦ Project Improvement:
◦ Resolve scheduling flaws in seconds
With Acumen Fuse®
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Project Analysis What are metrics?
Measurable, actionable
criteria
◦ Schedule
◦ Cost
◦ Performance
◦ Earned Value
◦ Risk
Metrics
Metric Analysis
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Project Analysis Benefit:
◦ Pinpoint weakness
◦ Slice and dice
About:
◦ 250+ metrics
◦ Industry Standard
◦ Unique-to-Fuse
◦ Customizable
Metrics
Metric Analysis
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Project Analysis Benefit:
◦ Identify &
remove flaws
◦ Simplification
About:
◦ Open-ends
◦ Redundancies
◦ Circular Logic
◦ Lags & Leads
◦ Danglers
◦ Out-of-Sequence
Logic
Metric Analysis
Logic Analysis
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Project Analysis Benefit:
◦ Calculate variances
◦ Identify changes
◦ Understand impact
About:
◦ Any attribute
◦ Any field
◦ Any number of
schedules
◦ Even calendar
changes!
Forensic
Metric Analysis
Logic Analysis
Forensic Analysis
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Project Analysis Planning the work:
◦ Faster
◦ Easier
◦ Realistic
Working the plan:
◦ Smoother
◦ Cheaper
◦ Successful
Metric - Logic - Forensic
Metric Analysis
Logic Analysis
Forensic Analysis
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Schedule Cleanser™ Problem Resolution
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◦ Remove schedule flaws
◦ Create clean version of the schedule
◦ Publish to Primavera or MS Project
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Acumen Fuse Reports PDF & MS Office
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Exec Briefing
• Summary of analysis results
Analyst Report
• To do list
Dashboard
• Interactive charts & graphs
API & Custom Reports
• Automation of existing reports
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Integration Schedule, Cost, Risk, EV
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MS Project
P3/P6
Open Plan
Asta Cobra Prism G2
PRA
Excel/XML
// Demo Acumen Fuse® Software Demonstration
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Fuse Summary ◦ Enterprise project
analysis
◦ Improved planning &
execution
◦ Schedule comparison
& forensics
◦ Simplified, cleaner,
schedules
◦ Multi-platform
integration
Better Plan the Work = Better Work the Plan
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// Fuse 360 Project Acceleration & Decision Support
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Fuse 360
◦ Add-in Module for Fuse Platform
◦ Automated:
◦ Scenario generation
◦ Acceleration
◦ Decision Support
Goal Based Acceleration
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Metric Analysis
Forensic Analysis
Logic Analysis
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Goal Based Acceleration
Accelerate schedule …
By applying criteria
… to achieve a given goal
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Acceleration
◦ Planning: Schedule Alignment to expectations
◦ Execution: Recover delays & overruns
◦ Goal:
◦ Target date
◦ % of remaining duration
◦ Best date possible
◦ Project or Activity
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Criteria Sets
◦ Reduce duration
◦ Change calendars
◦ Reduce logic lags
◦ Remove constraints
◦ Filter activities
Acceleration Drivers
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Criteria Set
Script Objec4ve “Cleanse & Accelerate construcKon acKviKes”
Step 1 Remove all constraints
Step 2 Filter for construcKon acKviKes
Step 3 Reduce remaining duraKon by 20%
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How does it work?
◦ CPM Simulation
◦ Critical path focus
◦ Incremental push
◦ Prioritize
◦ Earliest/Latest
◦ Longest durations
◦ Least resistance
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Accept or Reject Scenario
◦ Number of days accelerated?
◦ Goal achieved?
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Decision Support
◦ Scenario Insight
◦ Fuse forensics: what changed?
◦ Fuse analysis: which option?
◦ New plan:
◦ Publish back to Primavera or MS Project
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Fuse 360 Summary ◦ Goal-based acceleration
◦ Based on true CPM analysis
◦ Uses your defined criteria
◦ Alternate scenarios
◦ Publish to scheduling tool
Faster schedules through intelligent acceleration
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// Acumen Cloud™ Introducing
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Acumen Cloud™ Project Benchmarking
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Acumen Cloud™
◦ Smart comparisons provide unprecedented insight
◦ Project Percentile
◦ Where your project ranks in relation to others
◦ Project Probability of Success
◦ How likely are you to come in on-time and on-budget
◦ Fuse Index™
◦ Basis for cloud comparisons
◦ Looks at Schedule and Logic
Project Benchmarking
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Fuse Index™
Fuse Schedule Index™
◦ Missing Logic
◦ Logic Density
◦ Critical
◦ Hard Constraints
◦ Negative Float
◦ Insufficient Detail™
◦ Number of Lags
◦ Number of Leads
◦ Merge Hotspot
Fuse Logic Index™
◦ Redundancy Index
◦ Open Ends
◦ Open Starts
◦ Open Finishes
◦ Leads
◦ Lags
◦ SF Links
Schedule & Logic Quality
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Project Percentile
◦ Compare to thousands of similar
projects
◦ Rank your Fuse Schedule Index™ and/or
Fuse Logic Index™
◦ Rank individual metric results
How does your project stack up?
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Project Viability
◦ Based on Fuse Index™ & Acumen Cloud™
comparisons
◦ Likelihood of success
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Secure & Anonymous
◦ Optional participation
◦ Only Metric results and user-provided data is
uploaded to Acumen Cloud™
◦ All identifying characteristics are kept on native
Fuse license
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More information: White papers: www.projectacumen.com
Software Trial: www.projectacumen.com/trial
Twitter: @projectacumen
Email: info@projectacumen.com