S4 // Acceleration Tab (Acumen 360)

Acumen 360 is a schedule remediation and acceleration product. You use it to accelerate or compress project schedules to meet faster completion deadlines or to get a delayed project back on track.

In addition, 360 can be used to hypothesize acceleration options or model potential delays.

Note: You can also accelerate a project schedule from the S1 // Projects tab by clicking Accelerate Schedule in the Scenario Generation group.

Acumen 360 runs a CPM simulation running hundreds of iterations, progressively accelerating the project towards a defined goal using sets of user-definable criteria.

There are three acceleration options:

  • Automatic, Goal-Based allows you to define the acceleration target and let Acumen 360 automatically generate the schedule scenario that meets that goal.
  • Targeted allows you to define the acceleration goal and the criteria for acceleration (for example, accelerate construction activities by 50%).
  • Interactive allows you to accelerate or decelerate individual activities or groups of activities using the duration calibration sliders.

The S4 // Acceleration tab includes a script library/editor and a step library/editor.

Related Topics:

  • S4 // Acceleration Tab Procedures
    Use these procedures when working with the S4 // Acceleration tab.
  • Ribbon Commands on the S4 // Acceleration Tab
    Use the ribbon commands to perform such tasks as accelerate the schedule, apply, merge, and save script libraries, and create scripts and steps.
  • Automatic Goal-Based Acceleration
    Use automatic goal-based acceleration to define the acceleration target and let Acumen 360 automatically generate the schedule scenario that meets that goal.
  • Targeted Acceleration
    Use targeted acceleration to define the acceleration goal and the criteria for acceleration.
  • Interactive Acceleration
    The interactive acceleration mode of Acumen 360 allows you to accelerate or decelerate activities and immediately view the impact on the rest of the schedule.
  • Analyzing the Acceleration Results
    Analyze the newly created scenarios using any of the standard analysis features within Acumen including Forensics, timeline view, and the Fuse diagnostics view.
  • Publishing Scenarios
    You can publish Acumen 360 scenarios to MS Project and Primavera.