Ribbons Overview

Ribbons are groupings of activities based on a given criteria.

You can use them to:

• Slice and dice a project into meaningful groups of activities for analysis.
• Flatten and simplify large amounts of project data. That is, reduce large numbers of activities to a more manageable number of ribbons.
• Visualize activities based on common criteria (for example, activity attributes or network path).

A ribbon can be created by something as simple as an activity attribute (for example, type of activity, contractor, or critical/non-critical), a WBS, or a resource, or it can be defined to represent a path through a network between two activities within a project. You can hide activities from within a ribbon.

By default, ribbons are grouped by project; however, they can be grouped in multiple ways including activity attribute, resource, and path. If a workbook contains multiple projects, then a separate ribbon will display for each project.

Ribbons are segmented by phases. Acumen Fuse analysis is conducted against ribbons.