{"id":3014,"date":"2025-11-11T10:44:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ead.verano.com.br\/site\/2025\/11\/11\/what-makes-for-a-good-project-schedule\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:53:19","slug":"what-makes-for-a-good-project-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ead.verano.com.br\/site\/en\/2025\/11\/11\/what-makes-for-a-good-project-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes for a good project schedule?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, and then start writing! <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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O que define um bom cronograma de projetos?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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At Acumen, a well-planned schedule is the key to a project\u2019s success\u2014and so is an exceptional project manager. However, the definition of a well-planned schedule can vary depending on the situation. Each planning department has a different set of standards and constraints that determine the quality of the planning. How can two companies\u2014a client and a contractor, for example\u2014agree on an industry standard or make consistent project decisions?  <\/span><\/pre>\n
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According to Acumen\u2019s CEO and President, Dr. Dan Patterson, the integrity of the critical path (CPM)\u2014a key factor in the reliability of subsequent resource allocation, cost engineering, risk modeling, and overall project execution\u2014is the key to ensuring the project\u2019s success. He also believes that completing the project with precision, using a realistic, risk-adjusted schedule, is far more valuable than a deterministic schedule. We sat down with Patterson to discuss how Acumen\u2019s core concepts, its methodology, and its \u201chand-in-hand\u201d work products can consistently create reliable schedules that are on time and within budget for projects\u2014and ultimately, successful project managers.  

What is the Acumen Fuse Schedule Index?<\/strong>

Recognizing the need for a standard benchmark for schedule quality, Acumen created the award-winning Fuse Schedule Index\u2122. The Fuse Schedule Index consists of nine different quality checks and their proven effectiveness thresholds. Each of these indicators is calculated individually and weighted before being compiled into the Index. Standard thresholds have been established to help determine whether your project makes the cut or not. Since its inception, the Index has been built into the Acumen software platform, used as the basis for cloud-based benchmarking, and offered as part of a free web utility that all planners can access.    <\/p>\n
What impact does the Fuse Schedule Index\u2122 have on project management?<\/strong><\/p>\n
With the adoption of the Fuse Schedule Index\u2122 by both contracting and subcontracting organizations, expectations and communication between the parties have been aligned, and the practice of planning sound and reliable schedules has been elevated. This increased demand from both owners\u2014those who invest capital to keep projects moving forward\u2014and contractors\u2014those who invest their expertise to get the project done\u2014only demonstrates that standardization is both necessary and successful. It is now generally accepted that the higher the quality of a project schedule, the greater the chance that the project will be executed smoothly and meet expectations.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\"Acumen Fuse\u00ae se integra a todas as vers\u00f5es de Primavera\u00ae, dando-lhe um olhar abrangente da qualidade do seu planejamento e realismo ao seu modelo de risco e, al\u00e9m disso, permite que voc\u00ea visualize facilmente e reporte o desempenho de execu\u00e7\u00e3o.\"\n- Dr. Dan Patterson, PMP, Diretor-Presidente e Presidente da Acumen<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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How did the Acumen solution become a market leader?<\/strong><\/p>\n
The Fuse Schedule Index\u2122 is rapidly becoming a standard for quality in planning. It has been widely adopted by organizations in the Oil & Gas, Engineering, EPC, Government, Aerospace, and Defense sectors. Acumen\u2019s goal is to continue providing tools to improve the quality of project schedules across the board by standardizing best practices in planning. This can help address the well-known problem of project failure across all sectors. Better planning leads to better projects.    <\/p>\n
How does Acumen provide added value to Primavera\u00ae customers?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Acumen Fuse integrates with all versions of Primavera\u00ae, giving you a comprehensive view of the quality of your planning and the realism of your risk model, and also allows you to easily visualize and report on execution performance. With the addition of Acumen Risk\u2122, you can ensure a realistic schedule that accounts for uncertainties and risks, and with Acumen 360\u2122, you can generate accelerated schedules. Acumen ensures that your planning in Primavera\u00ae leads to the success of your project.  <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, and then start writing! O que define um bom cronograma de projetos? At Acumen, a well-planned schedule is the key to a project\u2019s success\u2014and so is an exceptional project manager. However, the definition of a well-planned schedule can vary depending on the situation. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sem-categoria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ead.verano.com.br\/site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ead.verano.com.br\/site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ead.verano.com.br\/site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ead.verano.com.br\/site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ead.verano.com.br\/site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ead.verano.com.br\/site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/ead.verano.com.br\/site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ead.verano.com.br\/site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ead.verano.com.br\/site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ead.verano.com.br\/site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}