// Fuse Customer Perspectives Series

Ensuring Project Compliance

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// Overview & Objectives

◦  High Fuse adoption rate since product inception ◦  Proven value in:

◦  Analysis time savings ◦  Best practices and standards implementation ◦  General insight & best practice maturity improvement

◦  Webinar highlights four specific use cases ◦  Firsthand customer perspective!

◦  Four user stories ◦  Fuse 3.1 briefing ◦  Q&A (submit Q’s through Questions box)

// Acumen

◦  Project management software company

◦  Insight into challenges & use of analytics to overcome them

◦  Core Concepts: 1.  Project success requires a sound plan

2.  Forecast accuracy requires risk consideration

Proven Project Analytics

Product Offerings

Risk Workshops

Acumen Fuse®

Software Training

Realistic Scheduling

Critiqued

The Base

Risk-Adjusted

Optimized

Team-Aligned // S5

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// Acumen Fuse Platform

◦  Fuse: analytics platform

◦  Improves schedule quality

◦  Insight into performance

◦  Fuse 360: goal-based acceleration ◦  Schedule Acceleration

◦  Decision-support

Enterprise Project Analysis

Metric  Analyzer  

Logic  Analyzer  

Forensic  Analyzer  

Schedule  Cleanser  

Schedule  Accelerator  

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Daniel Goldsmith, DCMA Electronics Engineer

// Government Review

◦  Defense Contract Management Agency

◦  5 – 6 months of schedules to analyze at all times

◦  Before, used Excel macros and built-in tools

DCMA

// Beyond the 14-Point Assessment

◦  Custom metric library ◦  100+ hand-picked metrics to determine health

and quality of the schedule

◦  Use tripwires to identify areas of concern

◦  Results are documented and sent to supplier ◦  Each area or metric of concern

DCMA

// Metric Customization

◦  Customized both schedule quality and cost metrics

◦  For example, “Overstated Performance to Status Date” ◦  Sum(if(((ProjectTimeNow-ActualStart)-ActualDuration)<0,1,0))

◦  Moving into cost and schedule integration

DCMA

// Julie Owen, LA Metro Senior Project Controls Manager

// Infrastructure Construction

◦  Required review of contractor baseline and monthly updates

◦  Projects > 1M submitted in P6 ◦  Projects >10M are cost loaded

◦  Construction claims can be common

LA Metro

// Forensics

◦  Pre-Fuse ◦  Built-in tools ◦  1-to-1 comparison ◦  Claims consultants

◦  Use for monthly reviews on schedules ◦  In claims of delay, can determine causes

of delay

LA Metro

// Future Applications

◦  Rolling out between now and July 1

◦  Automatic generation of contractor review letters

◦  Standardized schedule quality metrics

◦  Calendar Forensics

LA Metro

// Bruce Jones, Austal Scheduling Manager

// Government Contractor

◦  Two programs, 10 vessels per program in progress

◦  Implemented Earned Value for the past three years

◦  Use several tools to schedule, rate and report

Austal

// In-depth Analysis

◦  Adopted Fuse to streamline schedule review

◦  Replaced using complex filters in

scheduling tool to assess schedule health ◦  standardized slice-and-dice

◦  Quick comparisons to baseline

Austal

// Complete Customization

◦  In the standard EV library, labor hours were only calculated based on cost

◦  Based on feature request, can now be

calculated in labor hours

◦  Moving forward: using dashboard views for reporting to management

Austal

// Karen Richey, GAO Assistant Director – Applied Research and Methods Team

// Congressional Investigation

◦  GAO is a non-partisan agency that works for Congress

◦  GAO investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars

◦  Internal consultants on cost, schedule and EVM

GAO

// Schedule Assessment

◦  Established 9 Scheduling Best Practices ◦  Created custom metric library with Acumen

◦  Adding an additional guideline focused on baselines

◦  5 members on the team assessing approximately 30 programs at any given time ◦  Currently using Excel macros ◦  Copy-paste accuracy concerns

GAO

// Fuse Benefits

◦  Non-Fuse users still benefitting ◦  Use Fuse as a fast fact check for assessments ◦  Good validation and controls

◦  Fuse analysis shows every detail – establishing complete transparency

◦  Opens up the conversation, opportunities for “Get Well” planning

GAO

// Acumen Fuse® 3.1 Briefing

◦  Schedule Quality Index: the true standard of standards!

◦  Acumen Cloud™: benchmarking

◦  Schedule Cleanser™: intelligent schedule improvement

◦  Calendar forensics: interrogation of calendar definition

◦  Enhanced P6 integration: XML & inter-project data

// Q & A

// Upcoming Events

◦  Acumen Fuse Customer Perspectives Series: Oil & Gas

◦  May 24, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

◦  To register, www.projectacumen.com/events/seminars

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// Acumen Annual Summit

Hotel ZaZa // Houston, TX ◦  Fuse hands-on workshops

◦  Metric Development ◦  Custom Reporting ◦  API

◦  Presentation sessions ◦  Schedule and risk management best

practices ◦  Fuse user stories

◦  Networking events ◦  Opening poolside reception ◦  Networking party at The Houston Zoo

September 17 – 19, 2012

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