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Struggling to use an external scheduler like MS Project or Smartsheet with Clarity or investigating its potential? Learn how to effectively use these tools with Clarity in this training, which includes best practices and lessons learned. We will show both OOTB and Rego build connectors that will make the bidirectional connections seamless. -
You are no longer regulated to the desktop browser to respond to action items. Learn how Rego solved this problem using just your email. We’ll talk about various use cases where you would get maximum benefit from a simple response on an action item directly from your email. It doesn’t matter if you are using email on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet. The Action Item Responder as you covered. -
XOG & Query Bridge (XQ) is a 2-in-1 Clarity PPM toolset that provides enhanced functionality and an improved user experience when retrieving and inserting data to/from Clarity PPM environments. XQ is available as a Web-based application and also as a downloadable desktop version that supports both On-premise and On-demand Clarity PPM implementations. https://xogbridge.com/ -
Many times Roles are spread out geographically or by function and these Roles will have different rates. For example, a developer in India may charge $25/hour vs a Developer in US may charge $50/hour. When the project team has a requirement of several developers, the PM will have to add a region specific role (Developer-US, Developer-India) so that the right rates can be applied when a cost plan is created. This creates a challenge in terms of Resource Management. As the Demand and Capacity can be spread between different region specific roles. Proper configuration on the Rate Matrix can allow you to have one Role name but different rates based on Location or Department. This allows greater flexibility and takes away the redundancy of Role Names. You can do so with the Project Team Member Properties. -
Struggling to use an external scheduler like MS Project or Smartsheet with Clarity or investigating its potential? Learn how to effectively use these tools with Clarity in this training, which includes best practices and lessons learned. We will show both OOTB and Rego build connectors that will make the bidirectional connections seamless. -
The Resources in Security Groups portlet shows security group information for resources. (Note: the information displayed is dependent on what the user has security rights to view.) The portlet displays the Group, Group ID, if the Group is active, Resource, User Name and User Status. This portlet also includes the ability to filter on a specific group or resource, by whether the group is active, by user status or OBS. -
This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with creation of Roadmaps and the adding of investments to Roadmaps in Clarity’s Modern User Experience. This doc references version 16.2.1 views. Document provides detail on the Import from PPM function, Import from CSV as well as manual creation of Roadmap items. Detail is provided on how to create a manual Roadmap item from the Grid View, Timeline View or Board View. Instructions are also provided on how to synchronize a Roadmap. -
This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with the creation and editing of Tasks in the Timeline View of Clarity’s Modern User Experience. This doc references version 16.2.1 views. Doc covers how to create a new task in the Timeline View, how to insert sibling or insert child tasks, how to set Milestones, access the Details pane and add resource Assignments. Also details how to move tasks by clicking and dragging within the Timeline View. -
This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with utilization of the Staffing page in Clarity’s Modern User Experience. This doc references version 16.1.2 views. Document provides detail on the layout and capabilities of the Staff Grid as well as the Allocations Timeline. Information is provided on columns, widgets and filtering. Instructions are provided on how to save Views. Summary information is provided on the layout of the Allocation Timeline and includes detail on the Investment Timeline and the Resource Histogram. Investment Timeline summary contains information on the Allocations by Investments and the Allocations by Resources tabs. While the Resource Histogram section provides screenshots on Resource Availability and Resources by Role. -
The Rego Group Rights portlet is a useful list view for functional administrators. It provides a flat view of all the Global, OBS and Instance rights that have been granted to all the groups in Clarity. It can be further filtered by just the rights type and/or the security group. It is also possible to export out to file in spreadsheet (csv, xlsx) or PowerPoint formats with OOB Clarity functionality. -
Rego’s Clarity Adoption Metrics package consists of two sets of metrics: Project metrics, and Resource metrics. Project metrics measure how effectively project managers are using Clarity to manage their projects. Resource metrics measure how effectively resource managers are using Clarity to manage resources. Metrics are scored on a scale of 0 to 5, with higher scores indicating greater adoption and use. All metrics can be viewed numerically or graphically, and can be broken out by OBS. In addition, metric data can display as a 12-month rolling history to help identify trends. Project metrics can also display by lowest / highest adoption rates for a specific resource metric or all resource metrics. There is a variety of way to view the Adoption Metric data, therefore, Rego has made this simple by creating an Adoption Metrics object that contains multiple tabs. Each tab displays one or more of the Project or Resource Adoption Metrics. Based on the nature of the Metrics some tabs will allow the ability to use a pull down menu to select a specific Adoption Metric. There is also a Metrics trending view that pulls monthly snapshots of the metrics. Project metrics consist of the following: - Project Status Reporting – Measures how well PMs create and publish project status reports.
- Project Risk Adoption – Measures how well Risks are being used and managed.
- Project Issue Adoption – Measures how well Issues are being used and managed.
- Project Schedule – Measures how well PMs create tasks and keep the project schedule current.
- Project Baseline – Measures whether or not baselines exist.
- Project Zero ETC’s – Measures how well the PM assigns resources to tasks with ETCs.
- Project Past ETC’s – Measures how many improperly scheduled tasks the PM has.
- Project Milestone / Key Tasks – Measures how well PMs create and manage Milestones / Key Tasks.
- Project Schedule Variance – Measures how effectively PMs manage their schedules.
- Project Effort Variance – Measures how effectively PMs manage their project efforts.
- Project Budget Variance – Measures how effectively PMs manage budgets or cost plans.
- Project Unfilled Roles – Measures project roles with allocations that are already started or starting within the next 30 days.
- Project Data Quality – Measures how effectively PMs complete the Description, Stage, Progress, Objective, and Sponsor/Business Owner fields.
- Project Commitment – Measures the hard allocations for a project over a two week time frame.
- Resource Clarity Usage – Measures how often users log into Clarity.
- Resource Timesheet – Measures if timesheets post in a timely manner.
- Resource Allocation – Measures how well RMs keep total resource allocations within the expected range for future time periods.
- Resource Actualy Utilization – Measures how well Resource allocations match actuals.
- Resource Allocation Date in the Past – Measures how many resources are open for time entry with dates in the past.
- Resource Data Quality – Measures how well RMs complete the Resource Manager and Primary Role fields and optionally the Skill and Employment Type fields.
- Resource Commitment – Measures how much resource available time is committed to projects.
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Learn basic administrative tasks in this basic administration Clarity training, which includes setting up resources, security groups, OBSs, lookups, time reporting periods, fiscal time periods, calendars, jobs, and timeslices. These activities are focused on ongoing support vs. new configuration. Learn how to setup the ModernUX. -
This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with the updating, synchronizing and deleting of Roadmap investments in Clarity’s Modern User Experience. This doc references version 16.2.1 views. Detail is provided on how to update individual Roadmap items within the Grid View, Timeline View and Board View. Included are instructions on how to synchronize Roadmap investments and how to delete an investment from a Roadmap. -
The primary purpose of roles is to determine the amount of resource requests based on unapproved (uncommitted) and approved (committed) projects. Roles are non-named resources which are later allocated to named resources within CA PPM. Using roles is the best way to do "What If" scenario planning and determine needed capacity. This document assists in making Best Practice decisions around setting up roles in Clarity.

