Presentations
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Achieving the Unachievable: Aligning a Project with Stakeholder Expectations
This webinar presentation walks through a case study on a major capital expenditure project that was able to achieve a faster, risk-adjusted, and still achievable schedule using a combination of schedule and risk analytics based on Acumen's S1>S5 schedule maturity framework.
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Successful Dispute Resolution
Presented at the 2012 Construction CPM Conference, this presentation walks through the challenges of owner/contractor and JV disputes and reviews solutions and prevention techniques using Fuse.
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Advanced Project Analysis: An Introduction to Fuse 3.0
An overview of Fuse 3.0. This one-hour webinar presentation focused on providing insight into the advanced project planning quality and execution performance assessment provided by Fuse.
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Intelligent Project Acceleration: An Introduction to Fuse 360
A one-hour webinar introducing the first module on for the Fuse platform: Fuse 360. Fuse 360 provides pinpointed focus, intelligent optimization and selects the most efficient means of achieving your schedule goals.
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Calgary Breakfast Seminar: Predict and Influence Project Success
This presentation walked through Fuse capabilities and features in the latest release.
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2011 Acumen Annual Summit Keynote
The summit was held on October 18, 2011 in Houston, TX. Download the keynote, delivered by Dr. Dan Patterson, below.The 2011 Acumen Annual Summit presentations are also available to download. PresentationsDownload 2011 Acumen Annual Summit Keynote -
Dr. McNatty Webinar: An Introduction to Fuse360
Dr. Dan Patterson delivered a sneak peek presentation of the soon-to-be-released Fuse360. The presentation was first look at how Fuse360 is capable of optimizing projects with its revolutionary scenario generating, criteria building and project integrating capabilities.
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PMICOS Webinar: Building a Sound Schedule in an Enterprise Environment
Dr. Dan Patterson presented a one-hour webinar on effective scheduling using metrics analysis. He reviewed some of the common problems found in schedules and the research that backs the claim that, in the end, the schedule drives project success.
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Acumen & ARES: Simplified Cost & Schedule Integration
Acumen & ARES delivered this presentation on the need to properly build, analyze and cost-load a schedule. Acumen gave a special sneak peek of Fuse 3.0 and 360.
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Acumen Fuse & Customer Case Study
This presentation was given by Acumen CEO, Dr. Dan Patterson, and Kurt Voytell, Acumen customer and project manager at Constellation Energy. Created for the Oracle Primavera Special Interest Group webinar, it includes a comprehensive overview and a case study of the use of Fuse at Constellation Energy.
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Meeting Project Schedule Compliance Standards
Acumen teamed up with PT&C for this seminar presentation which covered the standards and best practices for project scheduling and using the proper framework to analyze schedules.
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Smarter Project Analysis and Improved Project Performance
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.
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Using the Proper Framework to Analyze Schedules
Acumen teamed up with PT&C for this seminar presentation which covered the standards and best practices for project scheduling and using the proper framework to analyze schedules.
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Metric Analysis: A Fresh Take on Project Forensics
This presentation was given at the 2011 PMI COS Conference and highlights the benefits of using metric analysis in project scheduling.
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Fuse Metric Development Workshop
This presentation walks through creating new metrics with the Fuse 2.0 metric builder.
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Acumen DCMA Trip Wire Review
An Acumen presentation on how to succeed in a DCMA's tripwire review. Basic and advanced techniques along with a discussion into primary and secondary tripwires.
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PMI College of Scheduling: Acumen's Metric Analysis
This presentation outlines Acumen's use of project metrics to helps score the performance of project optimization. The presentation includes schedule validation, risk analysis, cost/schedule optimization and team reviews.
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Improving the Quality of Primavera Schedules
This presentation highlights Fuse's integration capabilities with Primavera schedules and was given at the 2011 Primavera Users Group Conference.
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Five Step Cost Optimization
A seminar presentation detailing Acumen's five step process for reducing cost and cost risk exposure.
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AACE Spring Symposium Presentation
This presentation on using Acumen Fuse for project forensic analysis was given at the 2011 AACE Spring Symposium in Oxnard, CA.
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Acumen & Linear Project Americas Breakfast Seminar
This joint presentation covers Acumen's risk assessment process as well as Fuse enterprise project analysis software and additionally introduces TILOS linear project management software.
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Acumen Risk Assessment Workshops
This presentation walks through Acumen's successful risk assessment methodology.
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What's New in Fuse 2.0: Webinar Presentation
This presentation walks through the new features included in Fuse 2.0.
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Advanced Schedule Analysis with Acumen Fuse Version 2.0
Presented on February 24, 2011 in Houston, this presentation walks through what is new in Fuse 2.0 and how it can be used for an advanced schedule quality analysis.
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A Fresh Take on Project Forensics: Project Metric Analysis
This presentation is from the 2011 AACE Winter Workshop and covers using the Fuse Forensic Analyzer as well as Fuse's advanced schedule analysis capabilities.
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Total Project Analysis: An Introduction to Acumen Fuse
This presentation is from the 2011 CPM Conference and introduces Acumen's S1>S5 schedule maturity model and Fuse project management software.
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Dispute Resolution and Claim Analysis
This presentation, form the 2011 CPM Conference, pinpoints key indicators of project failure and provides a solution through project metric analysis.
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An Introduction to Primavera Risk Analysis
This presentation is from the 2011 CPM Conference and highlights how to use Primavera Risk Analysis when conducting a project risk assessment analysis.
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CPM Scheduling: Back to Basics
This presentation reviews common scheduling challenges, introduces Acumen's S1>S5 schedule methodology and covers deliverable based scheduling.
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The Path to Successful Risk Analysis
Acumen's breakfast seminar held in Houston, TX on August 24, 2010, covered how to generate the most accurate and insightful cost and schedule risk models using Acumen's renowned metric based 5 step process.
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Schedule Analysis: Going Beyond the Gantt Chart
This presentation was given at the PMI Austin Tech Local Interest Group and discusses how to use metric analysis to ensure schedule quality.
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Project optimization through Risk Metrics
This presentation was originally given at the Project Management Institute, College of Scheduling Conferences 2010. An explanation of how to use risk metrics within Acumen Fuse to optimize projects and reduce risk exposure is included.
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Project Optimization with Acumen Fuse V1.1
A webinar presentation of how the second release of Acumen Fuse can be used to optimize project performance.
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Project Simplification with Acumen Fuse
A seminar presentation of how Acumen Fuse can be used to simplify complex projects.
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IPM Conference 2009: Metric Analysis using Acumen Fuse
A presentation on how Acumen Fuse can be used for project assessment and surveillance through the integration of schedule, cost, risk, Earned Value and performance based metrics.
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Primavera Oracle OpenWorld 2009 Conference: Metric Analysis using Acumen Fuse
An introduction to Fuse and how it can be used to analyze the health and performance of projects developed in the Primavera platform.
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Acumen holds regular seminars and presentations on scheduling, cost reduction, risk mitigation , EV and metric analysis topics. Below is a selection of these for download. We are happy to come and visit you and your team and hold similar seminars and presentations at your request.




