ACOS PLUS.1 News of
release 9
Workshop-Agenda
Duration: 2 days, daily from
9:00 am – 5.00 pm
Number of participants: 3-6
Course fee: 2 x €325 = €650 per
person plus VAT
Prerequisites:
The participants should be confident Windows users with
some experiences on ACOS
Goals:
Practice use of new software abilities
for time,
capacity and cost scheduling and controlling
Day 1: Work Shift
Scheduling
- Planning in 1/10 hour increments
- Calendar for office and production, definition of
the default day
- Time scale modifications, calendar and bar chart
modes
- Extended functions for mainactivities and
relationship lists
- Extensions of the data model
- Network diagram boxes with date and time
- Use of macros with calculation functions for tranferring durations
from days to hours
- Formulas in columns, calculation functions in date fields and numeric
fields
- Customising the individual Portfolio Menu with personalised macros
- Resource maximum values, resource rates and summarised resources
- Bargraphs with multiple aggregations
- Application and customisation of attributes, individually and
according to data attributes
- Templates
- OLE-objects inserted in graphical outputs (JPG+GIF+TIF with MS Photo
Editor)
Day 2: Pool Planning
- New switches in the options menu
- Modifications in the database dialogue
- New fields „Foreign Account“ and “Project Manager“ in database mode
- New switches and displays in the footer
- Archiving of released planning situations into a budget pool
- Function „Establish
planned data“
- Settings for dialog masks and lists for feedback on schedule and cost
compliance
- New features for selection and sorts like “MA-level automatically” and
“by structure”
- Bar graphs and matrices with mean value calculation and the effects of
the resource calendars
- Time and resource driven update calculation and update according
target
- Project comparison and deviation analysis of dates and resources- Actual duration, remaining duration, reported manhours, remaining man-hours balanced by residual distribution functions
- Record locking, lock and unlock functions in database and file mode
- Load selected records from the total pool with overlapping record
locks
- Bar graph analysis function
- Manual capacity planning with capacitive realationships by linking
data from parallel projects
- Capacity smoothing and resource levelling based on the maximum
resource availabilities
- Calculation of durations from maximum values
Workshop documentation:
Work results on disk or CD
This agenda will exceed the 2 days. On startup of the course the main
points will be coordinated with the requirements of each individual group.