ACEIT for Schedulers: JACS
An introductory course for JACS, designed for students to load cost into your schedule models and perform cost/schedule uncertainty analysis.
Includes JACS
Training Formats:
Open Training
Self-Paced
Onsite Training
Description:
An introductory course for JACS, designed for students to load cost into your schedule models and perform cost/schedule uncertainty analysis. This course helps users learn to load cost onto tasks, apply uncertainty, incorporate a Risk Register and view and interpret the resulting analysis.
- Learn the purpose of Joint Confidence Level (JCL) analysis
- Review JACS structure
- Create a schedule capable of joint cost and schedule analysis
- Learn the JACS toolbar
- Leverage MS Project capabilities to prepare, run and enhance the analysis
- Load time dependent and time independent costs into your MS Project schedule
- Use custom fields to store JACS data
- Learn about the need for hammock tasks
- Assign uncertainty to task duration and costs
- Enter risk events and risk factors
- Build a risk register
- Apply correlation
- Run a schedule heath check
- Work with built-in wizards
- Run the JACS simulation
- Review event logs
- Generate graphical reports to analyze JCL results
- View and interpret analysis results
- Identify cost, schedule and uncertainty drivers
- Measure criticality for risk events
- Understand the data created from a JACS analysis
Successful students should already have a working knowledge of scheduling and MS Project. This course focuses on how to use JACS and does not teach underlying schedule risk analysis concepts and principles.
Introduction to Joint Confidence Analysis, JACS, and MS Project
- Module 1 – Overview and Terminology
- Module 2 – Steps to Building a JCL Model
- Module 3 – The Analysis Schedule
- Module 4 - Schedule Preliminaries
- Module 5 - Configuring the Schedule File for JACS
Using JACS to Build a JCL Model
- Module 6 – Mapping Costs to Schedule Activities
- Module 7 – Specifying Uncertainty Distributions
- Module 8 – Incorporating a Risk Register
- Module 9 – Applying Correlation
- Module 10 – Conducting a JACS Health Check
Analysis Results
- Module 11 - Running a JACS Analysis
- Module 12 - Viewing Analysis Results
Working with the Generated JACS Files
- Module 13 – JACS Results File
Open Training
- In-person classes taught by ACEIT Certified Instructors.
- Classes are held in the Washington DC area unless otherwise indicated.
- Classes runs for 2 consecutive days (8:30 am – 4:30 pm) on location.
- Hardcopy Training Manual.
- Electronic Starting and Results files.
Self-Paced
- Designed to allow you to learn at your own pace.
- Instructional Videos accessed online through the Media Center.
- Includes up to 4 remote tutoring hours with an ACEIT Certified Instructor.
- Hardcopy Training Manual.
- Electronic Starting and Results Files.
Onsite Training
- In-person classes taught by ACEIT Certified Instructors.
- Economical option for 5 or more students at your organization.
- Classes on 2 consecutive days at your location or virtual available.
- Hardcopy Training Manual.
- Electronic Starting and Results Files.
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