INEIGHT CASE STUDY:
AECOM
FINDING THE RIGHT LEVEL OF DETAIL
“On the schedule side of things, we had three contractors with over 30,000 activities in the combined contract schedules,” says Camson. “The program team built an integrated schedule with nearly 3,000 line items that was detailed enough to show the interdependencies between partners, critical paths, and necessary handoffs.”
Based on the integrated schedule, AECOM ran Monte Carlo analyses to help identify the most significant risks, their potential impacts on the schedule, and possible mitigations.
“When you’re aligning cost and schedule at the contract level, you need a huge amount of detail,” says Camson. “But when you move to the project and program levels, you have to convey the top-level message without the unnecessary information.”
“We joined the project three months in and needed to get up to speed fast. InEight put the right tools in place help us deliver the targeted benefits of the program.”
-Aidhean Camson, VP, Global Program Controls AECOM
The program team built an integrated schedule with nearly 3,000 line items
Three contractors had over 30,000 activities in combined contract schedules
GRANULAR REAL-TIME VIEWS OF PERFORMANCE
AECOM built multiple dashboards across functions to show the appropriate levels of detail at the project, program, and executive levels. This part of the solution, based on Microsoft Power BI, provides dynamic views of performance.
“While most clients are accustomed to static monthly reports, people rapidly buy into the ability to drill down and explore active data. Right now, we’re refining the dashboards to really create actionable KPIs,” says Camson. “Our clients want to know, ‘Am I behind schedule?’, ‘How’s my budget or risk or contingency plan?’ This dashboard provides those insights and enables timely, informed decisions. With the Programs Control Engine built on InEight, AECOM can give stakeholders in large, complex organizations the accurate information they need to make the right decisions at the right time.”
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