Effectively Prioritize Projects and Optimize Organizational Capacity
P6 Portfolio Management helps organizations align their portfolios of projects and programs with strategic objectives by taking advantage of advanced what-if scenario modeling, capacity analysis, tabular scorecards, rich graphics, and optimization functionality. It enables organizations to better manage incoming demand, seek the right balance of projects, ensure that resources are not overstretched, and easily communicate the performance of projects and programs to stakeholders.
Solution Capabilities
Project Proposal
Workflow |
Create and categorize custom forms used to collect new project ideas or proposals. Centralize the management of new proposals, while automating and enforcing organizational governance, by routing forms used to capture proposed project information for approval. |
| Automatic Portfolio Creation and Maintenance |
Save time by defining multiple criteria for controlling the membership of a portfolio. For example, include all projects in North America for the Aerospace and Defense division, with a budgeted value greater than $10M.
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| Configurable Criteria Modeling |
Quickly get up and running with more than 200 standard project metrics for analysis and to communicate project performance. Adapt and configure metrics based on organizational needs.
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| Top-down Planning |
Conduct top-down planning, financial and strategic analysis on proposed projects without the need to enter detailed activity schedule data.
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Interactive Scorecards |
Content rich scorecards provide real-time information for effective decision making.
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| Rich Graphics |
Effectively convey information to decision makers through interactive graphs and charts including: bubble charts, stacked histograms, bar charts, side-by-side histograms, pie charts and Gantt charts.
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| What-if Scenarios |
Objectively prioritize projects by modeling an unlimited number of what-if scenarios. Identify tradeoffs and select the best portfolio that best aligns with the organization’s strategy, while considering varying constraints. |
Portfolio Capacity
Planning |
Reconcile resource demand with available capacity, identify capacity and resource bottlenecks and determine the operational feasibility of a specific scenario. |
| Team Collaboration |
Multiple users may collaborate on the portfolio selection process via shared scenarios and threaded discussions. |
| Performance Reporting |
Configurable scorecards and graphical views, published to user dashboards, monitor the performance of each project in a portfolio. |
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