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The PM Dashboard portlet provides an overview of all projects for which the user is the Project Manager without navigating to and opening each project individually. All critical information related to the project status is displayed in this portlet. Status indicators display the project’s statuses. Graphical stoplights and numbers provide an overview of all late Action items, Issues, Risks, Tasks, and Milestones. -
The Project Cost Plan Variance displays the variance between the budget and cost plans for projects the logged in user has security rights to view. The total for the Cost Plan that is marked as the Plan of Record for the project (Current Cost Plan Total), alongside the total for the current approved Budget Plan (Current Budget Plan Total). These two values are then compared in order to generate the total current Variance for the project. A positive amount in the Variance column indicates the project is under budget, while a negative amount indicates the project is over budget. Results may be filtered by: Project ID, Project Name, Manager, and whether the project is Active (Yes, No, All). By default, the portlet will display only Active projects. -
The Projects That Should Be Closed portlet displays all projects that have been created before the specified filter date and has had no new time, tasks, or risks/issues updated after the dates specified in the filter. This can assist in identifying projects that are completed or cancelled and should be closed. The table below describes the available columns in the portlet. Column Label Description Project Name Name of the project PM Manager of the project Created Date Created Date of the project Start Start Date of the project Finish Finish Date of the project Created Date Check Identifies if the project meets the Created Before (Days) filter Risks/Issues Check Identifies if the project meets the Risk/Issues – Days Back filter Task Check Identifies if the project meets the Task – Days Back filter Time Check Identifies if the project meets the Time – Days Back filter Project Check Identifies if the project meets the portlet filter Criteria id Internal code used by the query -
By its very nature, the shift to Product Funding is going to require that tracking of that funding. Agile tools do not have much, if any, financial capabilities, so it is important to create an eco-system that can support this value stream—from funding, through delivery, and finally to tracking the realization of financial value. Learn how Rally and Clarity PPM do this very well together. -
A review of how Northern Trust integrates financial systems with Clarity PPM bilaterally, providing the Finance organization crucial information, and NT Project Managers with a birds-eye view of project financials. Utilizing the Rego Data Extractor and the Rego Data Processor, these information exchanges help Portfolio and Project Managers eliminate their manual and redundant efforts, solidify their overall data accuracy, and dramatically improve the content provided to their Execs for decision-making. -
The Dashboard: Change Requests portlet gives an overview of all change requests on the project. The portlet will pull the "id" from the page it is placed on, so this portlet is usually placed on the project dashboard tab. The portlet sorts the issues first by priority and then by target date. It displays the name, owner, status, target date, approved by, and the priority. -
The Missing Time by PM portlet displays all missing or late timesheets for resources staffed on a project where the logged in user is the project manager. Resources will be listed if they are open for time entry, have a track mode of Clarity, and have timesheet that is not posted (accommodates for hire and termination dates). Project managers may use this portlet to determine the timesheet status of resources staffed on their projects. You may narrow the results by filtering by resource manager, period start, resource name, or status. The portlet will display an indicator based on timesheet status, the status, period start, resource name, and actual hours for the timesheet. -
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. -
Would you like to get an overview of the fundamentals of Agile? This session will dispel the misconceptions of Agile and provide an understanding and definition of terms such as “bi-modal”, “Scrum”, “Kanban”, “weighted shortest job first” and “SAFe”. We will also talk about how Clarity fits into the Agile discussion and provide thoughts and practices on how PMOs are responding to this trending methodology.

