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The Users Guide to Acumen

Fuse

Max 20 Delegates

Per Course

Course Duration:

1 day

Course Overview:Acumen Fuse is a schedule diagnostics tool that pinpoint and resolves shortcomings in a

schedule in a matter of minutes. No more time is wasted on manual validation techniques that

take your project team away from their core project work. Fuse provides the power to analyse,

visualise and optimise the quality of project schedule, cost and risk data in order to analyse the

past and optimise the future.

It is important that users gain a full appreciation of Fuse through a structured learning process.

This will enable users to fully appreciate the flexibility and benefits when analysing schedules.

The course is a practical hands-on training course using the Fuse application supported byexplanatory presentations. The course will use example project data relevant to the delegates

background and experience. Informal class discussions will be held focussing on the results

obtained and the approaches taken.

This course describes each area of Fuse Version 4 and includes the ability to analyse stand-alone

plans and also the ability to compare different versions of a plan using data from different

source types.

Learning Outcomes:The course / training will enable delegates to:

Be able to import data from a range of file types

Use the in-built metrics library to independently validate the project schedule, forecasts, risks and

earned value

Highlight changes between different versions of the same project using forensic analysis

Use the Dashboard and Logic Analyser to identify problem areas

Use the Acumen Cloud to benchmark your project against other similar projects.

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Course Content

Module 1 Introduction

Course objectives including format and

agenda

Module 2 Fuse Overview

Demonstration of the key functions

Explanation of the Fuse terminology

Module 3 System Overview

Understanding of the different areas

Explanation of documentation and

update process

Module 4 Importing Data

Understand how data can be imported

from a number of different sources

Learn how user defined fields can be

imported

Module 5 Viewing Imported Data

Learn how to display imported data

using different layouts

Understand the SmartGantt options

Module 6 Scenarios

Learn how to generate schedules directly

in Fuse

Module 7 Dashboard

Understand how to use the Dashboardand learn how to use the Dashboard as a

navigation tool

Module 8 Logic Analysis

Understand how to examine different

types of logic in a schedule

Learn how to identify weaknesses

Learn how to remove duplicate or

redundant relationships

Module 9 Diagnostics

Understand how to interrogate and

investigate project data by phases, by

structure, by resource or by other

groupings

Module 10 Activity Browser

Learn how to display analysis activities

using a variety of formats

Learn how to generate Smart filters and

annotate activities

Module 11 Forensic Analysis

Understand how to compare underlying

data between two projects

Understand how to add additional

analysis areas

Module 12 Benchmarking

Understand the Deltek Acumen Cloud

and learn how to benchmark

Schedule and Logic index for a project

Module 13 Metrics

Understand metric groupings and metric

types

Learn how to move and/or delete

metrics

Learn how to add metrics to a view

Module 14 Final Points

Summary, Final Questions and Wrap Up

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