Define How the Advisor Should Calculate Suggestions

The Schedule Realism Advisor provides suggestions for calibrating each activity based on a given criteria. You can use the Realism Advisor dialog box to define whether the Advisor should calculate suggestions using schedule quality, historical performance, metrics, or fields.

To define how the Advisor should calculate suggestions, complete the following steps:

1. Select the S1 // Projects tab.
2. In the Scenario Generation group, click Schedule Realism Advisor.
3. On the Schedule Realism Advisor dialog box, select from the following options:
   • The Schedule Quality mode presents uncertainty assignments based on the Fuse Schedule Index score for each activity and activity grouping. By default, an activity with a score lower than 10% will be flagged as needing more time than planned. Conversely, an activity with a score greater than 75% will be flagged as needing less time than planned.
   • The Historical Performance mode compares the baseline plan to the current schedule and looks for discrepancies in order to suggest which activities should be accelerated.
   • Use Metric to select any metric from Acumen to use as the basis for acceleration suggestions.
   • Use Field to select any field from the project to use as the basis for acceleration suggestions.
4. Click Calculate Advice. After the Schedule Realism Adviser has calculated the advice, the recommendations are shown in the activities view.
5. Click the Advisor icon next to any activity grouping to implement the recommended calibration settings. Select one of the following options to assign the summary suggestion to all activities or assign individual suggestions to each activity:
   • Assign summary suggestion to all activities.
   • Assign individual suggestions to each activity