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Overview & Objectives

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

◦ EPC/owner partnerships◦ Bidding competiveness◦ 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)

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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

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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

//Duane Compton, CH2M HILLProject Controls Manager

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Fuse Forensic Analyzer & Fuse Index™

◦ Ensuring data integrity during file conversion◦ MS Project Primavera

◦ Identify missing or changed fields

◦ Using the Fuse Index™ to prioritize improvements and score planning quality

CH2M HILL

// Joe Moore, FluorChief Planner

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Schedule Quality Improvement

◦ Custom Fluor metrics to identify areas of concern

◦ Generating reports for schedule improvement

◦ Correcting found problems

Fluor

//Gabriel Saenz, The Shaw Group

Global Chief of Scheduling

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Time Savings

◦ Custom reports

◦ Insight into planning quality not

provided by previous solutions

◦ Reports created in minutes

◦ Previously took 2-3 days

The Shaw Group

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Functional Planning and Scheduling

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Schedule Adherence

◦ Custom Shaw Group metrics ◦ Assess adherence of schedule to Shaw

requirements

◦ Monthly and weekly assessments and

reporting

◦ Slicing data by time segment and

activity grouping for targeted

analysis and insight

◦ Massive data sets

The Shaw Group

// Jerry Vogt, KBRPrincipal Planner

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Company Standard

◦ Implementing company-wide standard scheduling best practices

◦ Assessing schedules against these standards

◦ Editing metric thresholds and tripwires

◦ Creating custom views for analysis & insight

KBR

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CPMi Float & Constraint

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CPMi Logic

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CPMi Resources and Misc.

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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

Case Study

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