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March 2011

Improve Schedule Achievability & Accuracy with Benchmarking

Use Fuse to evaluate plans against industry standards or previous successful projects of a similar nature to improve quality and achievability.

Benchmarking project schedules is a powerful means of managing and validating projects, programs and portfolios alike. However, the approach of conducting such benchmarking, whether it is determination of schedule quality/realism or execution performance can be highly subjective.

This paper introduces concepts that not only help to provide a framework and a repeatable approach to developing structurally sound schedules (based upon accepted Critical Path/CPM Techniques), but equally importantly, that bring realism to the schedule with regards to estimated durations, required resources, and forecasted rates of execution.

Benchmark Comparison with Acumen Fuse
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Want more information on how schedule benchmarking can improve your projects?

Did you know that Acumen Fuse has a built in schedule comparison module which allows you to analyze variances between two or more project schedules or look at differences between a benchmark schedule and your current plan?

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Upcoming Events

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March 30

Project Challenge
Conference
Join our partner OTC Optima at the Project Challenge conference for a free demo of Fuse 2.0 as well as information on how metric analysis can help your projects.

NEC
Birmingham, UK

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April 10-14

Collaborate 11
Primavera User Group Conference
Acumen will be exhibiting at the Oracle User Group Conference as well as presenting a session on using metric analysis to achieve better planning & execution.

Orange County Convention Center
Orlando, FL

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April 19

Complimentary Metric Workshop
Webinar
Become a metric analysis expert at this free online workshop. Learn the importance of as well as how to write metrics for project analysis in the new Fuse 2.0 metric builder.

Webinar
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Central

April 20

Fuse Online Training Class
Training
This 1-day class is open to all Fuse users and will train attendees to leverage Acumen Fuse for advanced project and performance analysis.

Online
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

May 1-5

PMI College of Scheduling Conference
Join us in the exhibit hall at the PMI COS conference or stop by Acumen CEO, Dan Patterson's in-depth presentation on project Forensic Analysis with Acumen Fuse.

Fairmont Paliser Hotel
San Francisco, CA

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May 2-6

Offshore Technology
Conference
Stop by the Acumen booth at the OTC Conference for information on both Acumen Risk Assessment Workshops as well as risk model validation with Fuse.

Reliant Park
Houston, TX

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