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 […]
Deltek Acumen Fuse – Inspecting Schedule Logic
A healthy project schedule is largely predicated on good schedule logic. Acumen Fuse has many logic analyses features for probing and inspecting the integrity of logic in your schedule. Here we take a deeper dive into Acumen Fuse’s logic inspection tools. Sound logic is important to ensure the reliability of schedule predictions. Acumen has several […]
Deltek Releases Acumen 8.7 – Here’s What’s In It
Deltek has released its latest updates to Acumen which are all available in Acumen 8.7. Let’s take a look at what’s in this release and the new features that you can anticipate. Deltek made improvements primarily to Acumen Risk and Acumen Fuse with a minor enhancement to 360. Acumen 8.7 supports P6 XML versions 19.12, […]
Deltek Acumen Risk Analysis Settings
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 […]