Acumen has an abundance of customization options to suit your workflow. Today we’re going to start at the beginning and take a look at the Acumen interface and the General Settings. The Home Button is the starting place for Acumen. The icon is a light blue circle with a white sunflower inside which can be […]
What Is Deltek Acumen Risk?
What is Deltek Acumen Risk? And how can it support my project scheduling efforts? Deltek Acumen Risk is a risk management software program that works in conjunction with the schedule quality assessment software program Acumen Fuse. Acumen Risk helps project team members bring realism into the project schedule. Acumen Risk supports the scheduler’s efforts to […]
Snapshots in Acumen Fuse Explained
Snapshots in Acumen Fuse are simply a project that has been added to the workbook and represents a project in some state of progress. For example, let’s say you have a project baseline loaded into an Acumen workbook. After a month, you have an updated version of that project, and you want to compare it […]
Video – Deltek Acumen Fuse Maturity Framework Explained
The Acumen Fuse Maturity Framework has five levels, S1-S5, that is used to identify schedule maturity. The stages flow so that each level leads to an increasing, higher quality and achievable project plan. By following the Acumen Fuse Maturity Framework, projects can establish validated schedules that have accounted for risk, have been mitigated and optimized […]
Excluding Activities from Metric Analysis Using Filters in Acumen Fuse
A client working with a ten thousand activity schedule asked how to efficiently exclude groups of these activities from metric analysis in Acumen Fuse. Here we show you how. Acumen Fuse supports a thorough schedule health check using diagnostics from the 300+ metrics that come standard with Acumen or other metrics developed by the user. […]
Logic Density Using Deltek Acumen Fuse
We recently received a question asking if Logic Density calculations include milestone activities? Here we’re going to take a look at this and its computation. Logic Density is a metric that computes the average number of relationships per activity in the schedule. In theory this should be two or more, as a Logic Density value […]
The Intersection Analyzer in Deltek Acumen Fuse
Acumen Fuse’s Intersection Analyzer Acumen Fuse has many metrics to inspect the health of your project. The question is how can you focus in on a single metric and compartmentalize the performance? The Deltek Acumen Fuse ribbon analyzer provides metric group results for the whole life of the project; the phase analyzer separates these results […]
Deltek Acumen CPLI (Critical Path Length Index)
Deltek Acumen CPLI is part of a Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) 14 Point Assessment metric group. But be warned that Acumen’s metric analyzer calculates Assessment 13 Critical Path Length Index (CPLI) differently than the DCMA 14 Point Assessment. Let take a look at this. The DCMA Assessment 13 – CPLI provides a forward-looking metric […]
Deltek ProjectCon 2022
After holding virtual conferences for the last two years due to Covid, Deltek is back in person with a new name, Deltek ProjectCon 2022 (previously known as Deltek Insight) on November 15-18. The Venue for Deltek ProjectCon 2022 will be the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center. Gaylord Opryland Convention Center 2800, Opryland Drive Nashville, TN, 37214 […]
Acceleration in Acumen 360
Acumen 360 also has many features focused specifically on accelerating your schedule duration. Here we look at the tools for Acceleration in Acumen 360. Acceleration in Acumen 360 supports the schedule optimization process. Here the scheduler investigates what-if scenarios for shortening the duration of the project. The ideal for schedule shortening efforts is to have […]