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ACEIT 201: Next Steps in ACE, CO$TAT, and POST (v7.5)

COURSE LENGTH: 4 Days (8:30am - 4:30pm)

PREREQUISITES: Students must have attended the ACEIT 101 training course. We strongly recommend that students have developed at least one estimate in ACE.

OBJECTIVE:  The Automated Cost Estimating Integrated Tools (ACEIT) ACEIT 201: Next Steps in ACE, CO$TAT, and POST will help you learn some of the more advanced capabilities of ACE, CO$TAT, and POST.  Through a series of hands-on and instructor-led exercises, students will learn techniques for managing, analyzing, and exporting data with CO$TAT, develop an integrated ACE model, and use POST to create reports and present findings.

Day One:
Developing CERs and Learning Curves in CO$TAT

  • Module 1 – Normalizing a Dataset to be Used in a Data Analysis
  • Module 2 – Building a New Dataset in CO$TAT
  • Module 3 – Univariate Analysis
  • Module 4 – Pairwise Analysis
  • Module 5 – Linear and Log-Linear Analysis
  • Module 6 – Learning Curve Analysis

Enhancing the Time Phasing Sensitivity in your Session

  • Module 7 – Working with Schedules and Dates in Your Estimate

 

Day Two:

Implementing Techniques to Enhance Modeling Automation in ACE

  • Module 8 – Adjusting Procurement Costs
  • Module 9 – Including Monthly/Quarterly Time Increments
  • Module 10 – Using ACE Functions to Automate Your Model
  • Module 11 – Implementing Lookup Functions in ACE
  • Module 12 – Working with Data Tables in your ACE Model
  • Module 13 – Creating User Defined Functions

 

Day Three:

Using ACE as a Model Integrator

  • Module 14 – Introduction to ACE Plug-ins
  • Module 15 – Modeling Complex Estimate Architectures with the ACE-to-ACE Plug-in
  • Module 16 – Using the Excel-to-ACE Plug-in to effectively import data from Excel to ACE

Summarizing Session Results

  • Module 17 – Adding Summary Sections to Your Estimate
  • Module 18 – Including Sunk Costs in Your Model
  • Module 19 – ACE Charts
  • Module 20 – ACE Charts Additional Features

 

Day Four:

Creating What If Cases and Reporting Estimate Results in POST

  • Module 21 – Opening POST and the Inputs/Results Viewer (IRV)
  • Module 22 – Basics of Creating Reports
  • Module 23 – Generating Case Comparison Reports
  • Module 24 – Generating Analysis Reports
  • Module 25 – Including Budget Information, Filtering and Summarizing
  • Module 26 – Using Cases From Multiple ACE sessions
  • Module 27 – Automating Presentation Material
  • Module 28 – Packaging the POST Files

 

   

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