Deltek Acumen Fuse has a great feature. Activity Nudge Analysis allows you to inspect the impact an individual activity delay can have on another critical activity later in the project.
Procurement activities tend to have long durations. And procurement delays are not uncommon. Further, the resulting deliverable most likely is important to the execution of a downstream activity. In this situation you want to examine the effect this procurement activity may have on another critical downstream activity or milestone.
Is it possible to perform an individual activity to individual activity or, perhaps peer to peer, delay analysis? Yes, it is a type of logic sensitivity analysis where one activity is nudged to examine its impact on another downstream activity.
This article demonstrates a quick tip on how to perform an activity nudge analysis in Deltek Acumen Fuse.
In our example below, we have a schedule loaded into Deltek Acumen Fuse and we want to perform a nudge logic sensitivity analysis related to two activities. First select the S2 // Logic tab, Figure 1.
Figure 1
Continue by selecting the logic sensitivity feature in the logic analysis ribbon group, Figure 2.
Figure 2
Now we select which activity should be delayed to run the logic sensitivity analysis. In our demonstration we select to nudge the jig assembly activity, Figure 3.
Figure 3
In Figure 4 we enter the nudge duration, 100 days.
Figure 4
Now select the target activity, Figure 5.
Figure 5
In our demonstration we select the launch activity, an important event in the life of our project. Now we are all set to perform a nudge analysis. Click the analyze button, Figure 6.
Figure 6
In Figure 7 our results are displayed.
Figure 7
Our jig assembly activity can delay 69-days before impacting the launch date. A 90-day delay postpones the launch by 29-day.
Activity Nudge Analysis Summary
The total float is the amount an activity can delay before it impacts the project completion date. In Deltek Acumen Fuse it is possible to analyze how a respective activity delay may affect a future important activity in the life of the project. This peer to peer logic sensitivity analysis is possible between any two activities in the schedule that are along the same path. In this way the scheduler is able to focus in on important events and potential activity delay threats to their successful execution.