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 […]
Graphing Progress on the Gantt Chart in Deltek Acumen
Deltek Acumen Fuse provides some great Gantt chart features for graphing progress of a schedule. Let’s take a closer look. Acumen Fuse is a tool for examining the quality of schedules. Projects Acumen confirms as healthy in respect to quality metrics have a higher probability of achieving duration and cost targets. In addition to Acumen’s […]
Deltek Acumen 360
Deltek Acumen 360 provides a 360-degree view of all your scheduling possibilities. Here we examine the main features in Acumen 360 show how it works. Deltek Acumen 360 lets you generate schedule scenarios in real-time so that you can model duration slippages and savings in scenarios and immediately assess the impact. You can accelerate (or […]
Exclude Schedule Visibility Tasks from Metric Analyses in Acumen Fuse
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 […]