How to Exclude Schedule Visibility Tasks from Metric Analysis Individually excluding numerous activities from metric analysis becomes cumbersome the more activities you have, especially on large projects. Fortunately, metrics in Acumen Fuse can be modified to exclude all activities assigned a respective activity code. A former student asked if Acumen Fuse can exclude Schedule Visibility […]
Deltek Acumen Fuse Phase Analyzer and Phase Boundaries
In Deltek Acumen Fuse, schedulers can section a project into uniform intervals for presenting the Acumen Fuse phase analyzer results. You may also specify a unique phase boundary for reporting on a specific date. Here we explore this further. The Acumen Fuse phase analyzer in Acumen analyzes a respective metric group for each phase of […]
Deltek Cobra Support
Need Deltek Cobra support? Or support for Acumen Fuse and Risk? Ten Six can help! Before we look at some of our options available to you, let’s first understand the different kinds of product support Deltek offers for their software tools. Like many software companies, Deltek has a product lifecycle approach to support. This support […]
The Deltek Acumen SmartGantt Feature
The Deltek Acumen SmartGantt feature displays enhanced Gantt chart coloring to better represent the schedule situation. The Gantt chart is the heart and soul of scheduling software. The more you can display on the Gantt chart the more insight you gain. Deltek Acumen’s SmartGantt feature has Gantt chart coloring capabilities that can provide greater clarity […]
Schedule Risk Analysis Process
There are several phases to the Schedule Risk Analysis process, and it is good to become familiar with each step along the way. Let’s take a look at this in more detail. Acumen is considered a one stop shop for risk analysis. Not only can you examine the quality of your schedule, you also can […]
Sound Schedule Risk Analysis in Deltek Acumen
Schedule Risk Analysis in Deltek Acumen Risk is all about creating confidence levels and ranges into which the schedule is most likely to fall. But stakeholder’s must first trust the validity of the Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA) before accepting these confidence levels. Trust comes from a tenable SRA, and SRA integrity is founded on three […]
Baseline Compliance Metric Group in Acumen Fuse
The Baseline Compliance metric group in Acumen Fuse provides a wealth of data on the progress of an ongoing schedule in relation to its original plan. When reviewing the status of a project, the scheduler needs something to measure performance against. The baseline provides a static copy of the project before any work takes place […]
Deltek Acumen Scatter Charts
Deltek Acumen scatter charts are useful for identifying patterns or correlations between duration and cost in a risk adjusted schedule. Scatter plots use dots to present values for two different numeric variables. Each dot on the scatter chart is an individual data point. The scatter plot may have patterns that warn of issues that require […]
Deltek Acumen and Critical Schedule Drivers
Using the Critical Schedule Drivers feature in Deltek Acumen Risk Critical paths have a way of shifting on you after risk adjusting your schedule. Deltek Acumen Risk provides a way to review all the probable risk adjusted critical paths. Deltek Acumen performs a Monte Carlo analysis on the schedule to provide a risk adjusted analysis […]
Deltek Acumen Mitigation Steps Analysis
The risk mitigation steps analysis feature in Deltek Acumen Risk includes a series of schedule risk mitigation steps when running the analysis. It is not uncommon for projects to have a mitigation plan that is composed of not just one but several steps. It is important to note, at this juncture, that a mitigation step […]