Executive Briefing Report

The Executive Briefing consolidates information and results that have been generated from an analysis, and presents them in a descriptive briefing without the need for manual interpretation of the data.

It is one of the most powerful reports within Acumen.

The report includes three sections:

• Workbook is a summary of the overall analysis including cost and schedule characteristics.
• Project is a project-level summary including characteristics, status, areas of concern.
• Ribbon is a detailed analysis of each ribbon including trending.

Customizing the Executive Briefing Report

The ExecutiveBriefingTemplate.xml file is located in the Acumen > Templates folder. It is a hard-coded report which means that you cannot add or edit elements, or move a variable to a different element; however, you can make changes to the "regular text."

In addition, you can remove any of the fields in parenthesis in which case they will not display in the report.

For example, the following is a line from the ExecutiveBriefingTemplate.xml file:

• <MultipleProjectIntroduction>The {NumberOfProjects} projects in the workbook represent</MultipleProjectIntroduction>

You cannot delete the entire line; however, you can delete {NumberOfProjects} and you can delete or edit The and projects in the workbook represent.