How to preserve mapping for a progressed risk-adjusted schedule? Here we take a look at this. An Acumen Risk student recently asked how to keep their risk mappings intact after updating a schedule in P6 Professional. Acumen has some capabilities to modify a schedule, but progressing a schedule, particularly a large schedule, is best done […]
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If you’ve ever started with a blank Acumen Fuse workspace wondering “okay, but how do I actually get my data in here?”, this one’s for you. In our latest video, we walk you through one of the most fundamental steps in working with Acumen Fuse: loading a project from a source file in Acumen Fuse. Note: you
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You can edit any of Acumen’s 300+ schedule quality inspection metrics. Let’s take a look. Acumen is a robust tool for assessing schedule quality and exposing areas needing improvement. You can review your P6 schedule using the standard Acumen Fuse metrics, modify one of them or create your own. Knowing a metric’s elements clarifies its
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Acumen Fuse’s merge hotspot metric flags tasks for potential delay when they have more than 2 predecessors. To isolate riskier tasks and prioritize them for a more in-depth delay analysis, you can relax this requirement to apply it only to tasks with more than 7 predecessors. The Merge Hotspot metric examines a schedule for tasks
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This year’s Deltek ProjectCon 2025 will be held at the Gaylord Rockies in Denver, Colorado, on November 10-12, 2025. Influenced by Deltek users, this conference is a celebration of Deltek products, featuring Keynote Speakers, Headline Speakers and hundreds of Tracks. Keynote Speakers Opening Welcome Keynote Bob Hughes, CEO and President of Deltek Warren Linscott, Chief
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The Ribbon Analyzer Radar Plot in Acumen Fuse provides a graphical representation of tabulated metric data results. Here’s a look at how it works. Deltek Acumen Fuse Ribbon Analyzer effectively tabulates metric results for the project life cycle. The following article discusses the effectiveness of the Ribbon Analyzer using the default tabulated result format. Read
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Schedule transparency is an important attribute of a healthy schedule and should not be neglected by schedulers. Let’s take a look at this in detail. Schedulers should be attentive to schedule clarity as it’s a characteristic of a quality schedule. At work in the nineties, I recall crossing paths with a few unscrupulous computer science
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The Acumen Fuse ribbon analyzer is an efficient and effective way to measure schedule quality. It has 300+ metrics and many metric groups to assess the quality of your schedule. Based on considerable real-world feedback, the Acumen Fuse developers created the Schedule Quality metric group as having the most important metrics to consider for schedule
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The Schedule Realism Advisor in Acumen Fuse, provides suggestions for calibrating each activity based on a given criteria. You can use the Schedule Realism Advisor dialog box to define whether the Advisor should calculate suggestions using Schedule Quality, Historical Performance, Metrics, or Fields. We’ve produced a short video on this topic. You can also see
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What is Deltek Acumen Fuse? And how can it support my project scheduling efforts? Let’s take a look. The name Acumen is relevant to the software’s intended purpose. When we look up the word Acumen in the dictionary, we find a concise and pertinent definition. Acumen is the ability to make 1) quick decisions and
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