Dr. Dan Patterson CEO Acumen Kurt Voytell Constellation Energy/ Acumen Customer
Jan 22, 2015
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
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