A seminar presentation on the importance of baseline compliance and how the faster, easier metric, logic and forensic analyzers and informative visualization options of Fuse 2.1 support project performance and success.

1. Dr.
Dan
Patterson,
PMP
CEO
&
Founder,
Acumen
Jenn
Goodrich
Sales
&
Marketing
Manager

2. Agenda
• Introductions
• Quick
Fuse
overview
• Enhanced
Fuse
analysis
• Baseline
Compliance
metric
library
• Logic
analysis
• Forensic
analysis
• Easy
metric
development
• New
dashboard!
• Introducing
the
Fuse
API
• Acumen
Annual
Summit

3. Acumen World
Renowned
Risk
Assessment
Project Confidence
Workshops
• Project
analytics
thought
leader
• Oracle/Microsoft
Partner
Oracle
accredited
• Pertmaster/PRA
Training
Partner
partnership
• Headquartered
in
Austin,
TX
• Europe,
Asia
&
Australian
local
Acumen
Fuse®
resellers/partners
Metric
Analysis
&
Visualization

4. Acumen Fuse 2.1
• Metric
Analyzer
Faster
• Schedule
quality
Cost/Performance/EV
Easier
•
• Baseline
Compliance
• Logic
Analyzer
More
informative…
• Missing
or
redundant
• Multi
Project
• Forensic
Analyzer
• Variances
• Trending
• Integrated
baseline/
snapshots
• Visualization
• Ribbons
• Dashboard
• API

5. Enhanced Fuse Analysis
2
x
faster
analysis;
snapshot
visualization;
custom
reports

6. Baseline Compliance:
True Insight
• Used
to
determine
how
close
a
schedule
is
planned
and
executed
against
it’s
baseline
• Measure
of
well
the
plan
is
being
executed
• More
than
just
date
comparison
• Looks
at
period-­‐compliance
• Library
included
as
part
of
Fuse
2.1!

7. Compliance Scenarios

8. Compliance Metrics

9. Example Compliance
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
1-­‐Jan
1-­‐Feb
1-­‐Mar
1-­‐Apr
1-­‐May
1-­‐Jun
1-­‐Jul
1-­‐Aug
1-­‐Sep
1-­‐Oct
1-­‐Nov
1-­‐Dec

10. Smarter Logic Analyzer
• Pinpoint:
• Open
Ends,
lags
• Dangling
• Out
of
Sequence
• Reverse/
circular
• Redundant
• Multi-­‐project
Activity
A
Activity
B
Activity
C

11. Easier Forensic Analysis
• Compare
variances
• Track
project
performance
through
snapshots
• Identify
root
cause
of
delays
and
overruns
• What-­‐if
analysis
• Claims/Forensics
• Auto
create
snapshots
from
baselines

12. Friendlier Metric Editor
• Easy
to
use
metric
building
blocks
• New/edit
metrics
• Share
throughout
an
organization
• No
need
for
formulas!!
• Compatible
with
existing
custom
metrics
• Base
metrics
on
baselines
80%
of
enterprise
Fuse
implementations
are
now
running
custom
metric
libraries

13. Closer Integration
Open
Plan
PRA
Cobra
Prism
P3/P6
G2
MS
Excel/
Project
Fuse
XML

14. Reporting: have it your
way…
Executive
Analyst
Dashboard
API
Briefing
Reports,
(clipboard,
(Custom
(Word/
Scorecards
PPT,
Word)
reports)
PDF)
(XLS)

15. New Dashboard: Keep it
Simple Stupid
• Dashboard
• Project
Status
• Schedule
Quality
• Forensics
&
Trending
• New:
Fuse
Widgets
• Fuse
analysis
driven
• Fully
configurable

16. Fuse API

17. The Fuse API
• Very
important
new
capability
within
Fuse
• Ability
to
add
custom
reports
from
any
view
• Driven
by
new
on-­‐demand
API
engine
ini
File
• Custom
menus,
settings
VBA/Custom
report
code
• Report
generator
(VBA,
C++,
C#,
Java)
Report
• Output/Report

18. API Ini File

19. Custom Menus

20. Report Output
• Custom
Executive
Briefings
• Custom
reports
on
• Projects
• Logic
• Forensics
• Metric
analysis

21. Acumen Annual Summit
• Date:
18
October
2011
• Location:
Hotel
Sorella
• Call
for
presentations
• Tracks
• Fuse
–
Case
studies:
users
hints,
tips,
experiences
• S1
S5
Methodology
–schedule
maturity
• Risk
Workshops
–
proven
Risk
reduction
approach
• New
Product
Launch.

22. Q&A
White
papers
Free
Fuse
evaluation
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