Advanced Project Analysis and Project Benchmarking with Acumen Cloud™
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// BROOKE HAILEY International Channel Manager An Introduction To: & Acumen Cloud ™
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A presentation on project analysis, visualization and resolution including tips, tools and techniques for improved project intelligence through advanced analytics. Project benchmarking with Acumen Cloud was also introduced.
Transcript of Advanced Project Analysis and Project Benchmarking with Acumen Cloud™
// 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
◦ 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™ 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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Software Trial: www.projectacumen.com/trial
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