Deltek Acumen 8.5 Online Help

Using the Help Search
Using the Help Search
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Diagnostic Executive Briefing Report

The Diagnostic Executive Briefing report 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.

Using the Template and Customizing the Report

You can choose whether to use the built-in Diagnostic Executive Briefing Template or one of your own templates. You make this choice in the Deltek Acumen Options dialog box (Templates). 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.

Setting the Metric Type

The Diagnostic Executive Briefing report uses the setting in the Metrics tab Metric Type field to identify what a metric refers to. The report contains a per-ribbon analysis that specifies each one of the metrics on a Ribbon view. The Metric Type setting determines the way the data displays on the report for each metric.