Dr.  Dan  Patterson  CEO-­‐  Acumen  

Kurt  Voytell  Constellation  Energy/    Acumen  Customer  

Introductions •  Dan  Patterson:  CEO  Acumen  •  Over  20  years  in  PPM  •  Risk  analysis  expertise  •  Founder  of  Acumen  

•  Kurt  Voytell:  Constellation  Energy  •  Fuse  user  since  January  2011  

World  Renowned    

Risk  Assessment  Workshops  

Oracle  Accredited  

Primavera  Risk  Analysis    Training    

Acumen  Fuse®  Enterprise  Project  Analysis  

Acumen Project Confidence

•  Project  analytics  thought  leader  

•  Oracle  Partner    •  Headquartered  in  Austin,  TX  

•  Global  reseller  network  

What is Acumen Fuse?

•  Validate  schedule  quality,  cost  forecast  accuracy,  and  risk  realism  

•  Identify  logic  flaws  in  a  single  project  or  multiple  linked  projects  

•  Compare  project  plans  or  iterations  of  the  same  plan  

•  Track  project  performance  and  trending  

•  Evaluate  compliance  and  prepare  for  IBR  

•  Align  schedule  with  cost  &  risk  information      

Enterprise  Project  Analysis  Software    

Better  quality  planning  and  execution  

…  Leading  to    

Metric Analysis

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•  Analyze  schedule,  cost,  risk,  performance  •  “What  >  So  What  >  Now  What…”  

•  Objective  of  pinpointing  issues,  shortcomings  and  failed  tripwires  •  Comparison  against  benchmarks/thresholds/baselines  

•  Trending  over  time  •  Comparisons,  performance  improvements  

•  Advanced  metrics  •  Beyond  standard  ‘schedule  check’  e.g.  logic  densityTM  

•  Fuse  Metric  Library  •  Over  225  metrics:  DCMA  14  Point,  GAO,  EV,  Risk,  Baseline  

Compliance  •  Metric  Editor  

•  Only  commercial  product  to  allow  you  to  create  your  own  criteria  

Acumen Fuse 2.1 •  Metric  Analyzer  

•  Schedule  quality  •  Cost/Performance/EV  •  Baseline  Compliance  

•  Logic  Analyzer  •  Missing  or  redundant  •  Multi  Project  

•  Forensic  Analyzer  •  Variances  •  Trending  •  Integrated  baseline/snapshots  

•  Visualization  •  Ribbons  •  Dashboard  •  API  

Faster  Easier  More  informative…    

Integration  with  Primavera  P3,  P6,  MSP,  Deltek,  Cobra,  Excel,  Ares,  Pertmaster,  UNCEFACT  

Enhanced Fuse Analysis

2  x  faster  analysis;  snapshot  visualization;  custom  reports    

Visualization & Reporting

Acumen  Fuse®  

Visualize Metric Results •  Colored  analysis  

results  allow  for  quickly  isolating  flaws    

•  View  results  in  charts  to  compare  quality  of  ribbons  and/or  phases  

Errors  flagged  in  red  

Metric  results  shown  in  

graph  form  

Dashboard •  Roll  up  analysis  results  to  a  single  view  

•  Configure  dashboard  to  show  any  metrics  

•  Copy  and  paste  for  easy  custom  reporting  

Included Reports •  Verbose  summary  of  analysis,  useful  for  PMs  and  Executives  

Executive  Briefing  

•  Score  and  compare  quality  of  multiple  projects  or  ribbons  

Scorecards  

•  Uses  color  and  size  to  help  pinpoint  and  prioritize  project  issues  

Heat  Map  

•  Metric  results  in  spreadsheet  form  

Ribbon  Report  

•  List  of  scheduling  flaws  in  spreadsheet  form  

Analyst  Report  

Demo Acumen  Fuse®  

Fuse API

User Story

•  Fuse  user  since  January  2011  •  Advanced  schedule,  cost,  and  performance  analysis  

•  Developed  custom  reports  &  metrics  

www.projectacumen.com

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