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Aligning work to organizational strategy is a fundamental requirement in today's ever-changing marketplace. High performing organizations are moving beyond basic connections to introduce strategic hierarchies that are tied to real measurements of business value via Clarity's Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Join our expert guides as they present key concepts, best practices, and the evolution of strategic alignment. -
Value Stream Management (VSM) isn’t just another buzzword; it’s the visibility layer your digital transformation is starving for. In this session, learn how to map, measure, and maximize value across the entire delivery lifecycle. -
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 Project Risk Register report provides visibility into project risks, including detailed information on each risk and its associated items such as notes, action items, tasks, and related risks or issues. Results can be grouped by project or viewed without grouping to support flexible analysis. Interactive visuals make it easy to track, monitor, and manage risks across projects. -
London Stock Exchange shares their Clarity journey (since 2008) and where they want to take the tool next. Current goals are: • Moving toward standardized ways of working. Focused on connecting our ecosystem of tools with Clarity as a focal point for Portfolio Management and SPM. • With an end goal of Faster Time to Market, on a journey to be a Customer Lead organization. -
The movement from managing technology organizations and development by Products instead of Projects has grown in recent years. This has many advantages, but only if there are critical changes in defining and funding the development. First, we shift from defining specific solutions to developing and defining the outcomes we want to accomplish with that development. Second, we should rethink how we fund development. Instead of funding a specific scope of work, we should fund the capacity to develop products. -
PMOs/EPMOs are feeling some pressure from Agile disruptors in their organizations. Some Agile purists insist that they can do everything with an Agile tool and no PMO governance, but this really isn’t the case. If you belong to a PMO or EPMO, this session will help you to better collaborate with your Agile counterparts in finding better and more holistic solutions to value delivery. -
This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with population of project properties in Clarity’s Modern User Experience. This doc references version 16.2.1 views. Doc covers Project Tiles View, Project Properties – Details page and updating from the Project List view. -
The Populate Prior Periods Forecast From Actuals in Cost Plans process updates Cost Plans for Active Projects, it updates the Forecast for previous months = Posted Actuals, to remove variances from past periods. This is an On Demand process in Clarity named Populate Prior Periods Forecast From Actuals in Cost Plans and can be manually executed from the Organizer or scheduled through the “Execute a Process” job. If there are number of processes in the Organizer – Available Processes, this process can be filtered and then checked to Start. When the process is started it will be seen in the Initiated on the Processes tab. The process status can be monitored from Running to the Completed stage. The process is very flexible and supports Cost Plans with any given grouping and it also works without any dependency on timeslices or other jobs. The process fetches Cost plan of records for all active projects in the system that have Actuals transactions in WIP table. It then process those cost plans to update all of the prior monthly forecast periods with the corresponding monthly Actuals. -
The Populate Prior Periods Forecast From Actuals in Cost Plans process updates Cost Plans for Active Projects, it updates the Forecast for previous months = Posted Actuals, to remove variances from past periods. This is an On Demand process in Clarity named Populate Prior Periods Forecast From Actuals in Cost Plans and can be manually executed from the Organizer or scheduled through the “Execute a Process” job. If there are number of processes in the Organizer – Available Processes, this process can be filtered and then checked to Start. When the process is started it will be seen in the Initiated on the Processes tab. The process status can be monitored from Running to the Completed stage. The process is very flexible and supports Cost Plans with any given grouping and it also works without any dependency on timeslices or other jobs. The process fetches Cost plan of records for all active projects in the system that have Actuals transactions in WIP table. It then process those cost plans to update all of the prior monthly forecast periods with the corresponding monthly Actuals.
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Many organizations are moving from a waterfall development approach toward agile methodologies and frameworks. This transformation impacts the financial structure of IT and can create changes in the way the TBM model needs to be built. In this session we will give a high-level overview of what an Agile Business Operating Model is and the potential impacts it could have so you can understand how to integrate this into your TBM practice. -
Agile is here to stay, but waterfall may be as well. Companies around the world struggle with living in a bimodal development world, while trying to go through an agile transformation. This session will discuss best practices and lessons learned within companies that have gone through agile transformations. We will also review SAFe as a potential approach. -
Monthly Actuals - Admin is a standard calendar view of actuals posted by a user on each day of the selected month. Actuals also includes timesheets that haven’t been submitted/posted yet. Actual hours on the report are tied to user's availability i.e. when user has 0 availability (Saturday/Sunday/Holiday) then actuals are also greyed out. -
Project Variances is a grid chart that provides project managers a single place to view baseline variance at task level for various projects. This report helps managers analyze how projects are progressing against their baselines and helps them in taking correcting measures if required. You can further narrow your search by OBS Type, OBS Path, Project ID, Task Finish Date, Task Total EAC to Baseline Hours variance, Task Total EAC to Baseline Hours variance%, Task Total Baseline Hours, Task Total EAC Hours and Is Project Active? -
This video describes the process of transferring assignments from one resource to another resource of the same type (e.g., labor to labor, equipment to equipment) using the Transfer Assignments Wizard in OWB. The video is available in both .m4v and .wmv formats. -
This video describes how to create and work with task dependencies within Open WorkBench. The video is available in both .m4v and .wmv formats. -
This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with creation and management of resource Teams in Clarity’s Modern User Experience. This doc references version 16.0.3 views. Document provides detail on how to create Teams and add resources to a Team. Instructions are provided on how to add resources by OBS and how to allocate a team to an investment. Team key points are provided with regard to Classic, Allocations, ETC and Financials. -
This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with Project creations in Clarity’s Modern User Experience. This doc references version 16.0.3 views. Doc covers create project from project page, create project via the New from Template button, selection of template and project creation from the project tiles view. -
This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with the creation of Status Reports in Clarity’s Modern User Experience. This doc references version 16.0.2 views. Document covers the creation of Status Reports via the Status Module as well as the Status Report Module. Detail is provided on the widgets that can be used within the Status Report canvas as well as instructions on how to configure the canvas. Detail is also provided on how to Preview and Publish status reports. -
This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with Project creations in Clarity’s Modern User Experience. This doc references version 16.0.2 views. Doc covers create project from project page, create project via the New from Template button, selection of template and project creation from the project tiles view. -
This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with creation and management of resource Teams in Clarity’s Modern User Experience. This doc references version 16.0.2 views. Document provides detail on how to create Teams and add resources to a Team. Instructions are provided on how to add resources by OBS and how to allocate a team to an investment. Team key points are provided with regard to Classic, Allocations, ETC and Financials. -
A Quick Reference Guide to assist in the creation and editing of tasks using the Project Task List in Clarity. Screen shots are from the Classic UI, using the Phoenix Theme. -
A Rego training deck that walks through the various aspects of Open Workbench and offers tips and trick on using the tool to manage projects in sync with Clarity. Covers: Opening a plan, Multiple Staffing, Preference Options, Quick Access Toolbar, Quick Search and Quick Filter, Views and Filters, Copying Plans, Work Breakdown Structure, Dependencies, Assignments, Autoschedule, Baselining and Plan Closure. -
The tech-trick shows how to retrieve logged in User related values (ex: skill set) in timesheet.
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