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 […]
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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 […]
Why You Should Assign Resources on the Schedule
Why Assign Resources on the Schedule? Project schedules are primarily about dates, right? They help you see what work is due to happen when so everyone can get ready to do their tasks. And that’s where the problems start. You see, many project managers don’t add resource names to tasks. Once the task list and […]
How to use a Project Baseline
You’ve set up your project in Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project and created a project baseline. But what, exactly, is the point of capturing the baseline? You already know that the project is going to shift from that position, because change is inevitable in a fast-moving business leading dynamic projects. So why bother with baselines […]
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. […]
Video – What is Negative Float?
Negative Float appears in a schedule when the early dates of an activity are later than the late dates. It typically indicates a missed date somewhere along the Critical Path. In nearly every case where there is Negative Float in a schedule, it will be due to a Constraint somewhere on the Critical Path. This […]
A Quick Way to Remove All Relationships from a Primavera P6 Schedule
Schedulers often want to use an existing schedule as a template for a similar project. First, to make the schedule fit for purpose, they may want to remove all the relationships from their template, so that it can be efficiently used in their new project. Primavera P6 Professional supports the removal of all relationships from […]
What is Driving the Critical Path?
What is Driving the Critical Path? Do you ever look at a pdf of the schedule and see multiple activities in-progress that are also showing as critical? Figure 1 – multiple in-progress activities shown on Critical Path How can this be? Critical Path Defined First, we need to know how the Critical Path is defined […]
What is a Primavera P6 Schedule?
A Primavera P6 schedule is often required at the start of a project, regardless of whether it is simple or complex, to forecast the duration of the project and its activities. A schedule should be made prior to the start of a project. It should be a robust plan that lays out what needs to […]