Deltek’s Acumen Risk analysis settings offer many options for the scheduler. If you are new to all this, you might find the defaults are a good place to start, but it is good to become aware of each setting’s effect. The Monte Carlo analysis comes with its own set of idiosyncrasies that, perhaps, is from […]
Preparing an Acumen Risk Analysis Schedule
How to create an Acumen Risk Analysis Schedule A reliable Deltek Acumen Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA) has three pillars, and the first and most important one is a well-built schedule. An accurate SRA has three components: a quality schedule, well-defined duration/cost uncertainty, and discrete risk events. Again, the most crucial element is a quality schedule. […]
Deltek Acumen Fuse Diagnostic Scoring Methods
In Deltek Acumen Fuse, you may choose your diagnostic scoring methods as either metric-based scoring or record-based scoring as a measure to check the quality of a respective schedule. When considering which diagnostic scoring methods, metric-based or record-based scoring, it is important to note that a record is an activity or task. Also, the scoring […]
Absolute Mapping in Deltek Acumen Risk Register
If you want the same risk event’s impact applied fully to each activity, then you want your risk-to-activity mapping to be an absolute mapping in Deltek Acumen. Risk events that are mapped to more than one activity have their properties spread out among the various mapped activities. And the schedule and cost impact are pro-rated […]
Deltek Announces Acumen 8.6 Cumulative Update 08
Deltek just released Acumen 8.6 Cumulative Update 08 and presented it, along with a look at what’s to come in version 8.7 at Virtual Deltek Insight 2020. Acumen 8.6 Cumulative Update 08 was released on September 4 and includes the following enhancements. IMPDAR Schedule Export Enhancements – Task ID When you export .mpp or Project […]
Deltek Acumen Benchmarking Feature
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to compare your project schedule to a wealth of historical schedules in a database? This is possible using the Deltek Acumen benchmarking feature. Ever wondered how the quality of your organization’s project schedules stacks up against other companies in your industry? Deltek Acumen Fuse has the option to […]
Deltek Acumen Forensics – Comparing Schedules
The Deltek Acumen Forensics feature can compare a base project with other snapshots or scenarios. This is great if you have two versions of the same schedule and you want to know the differences between the two or what changes were made. The Deltek Acumen Forensics feature is a comparison tool for this very purpose. […]
Deltek Acumen Dashboards Capabilities
Deltek Acumen has advanced analysis metrics for inspecting the quality of schedules. Schedulers can use Acumen dashboards and published reporting features to also this analysis to stakeholders. Deltek Acumen has over 300+ metrics for analyzing the quality of schedules. In light of this, Deltek aptly named its schedule analysis software Acumen, which stands for the […]
Acumen Risk Sliding Bars Feature
In our blog, Deltek Acumen Risk and Activity Duration Uncertainty we discussed using Deltek Acumen Risk sliding bars feature for an efficient way to account for activity duration uncertainty in your schedule. In fact, it’s worth noting that many schedules don’t even account for duration uncertainty. The Acumen Risk sliding bars provide an easy way […]
What Is Acumen Touchstone
Acumen Touchstone is a web portal, installed on premises, that allows subcontractors to upload their schedules. A snapshot of the project is created each time a schedule is uploaded. Then, Acumen Touchstone measures the snapshot schedule data against the criteria that was defined at the program level. You can also use Acumen Fuse to create […]