RegoXchange
  • This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with the use of the Staffing View in Clarity’s Modern User Experience.  This doc references version 16.1 views. Document provides information on how to swap between views to see investments by resource or resources by investment. Instructions on filtering are provided, as well as detail on how to update the unit of measure between FTE (Full Time Equivalent) and Hours. Tips are provided on how to expand the list of investments within each view and how to view the properties for the allocations. A Legend is also documented to provide information on each of the icons that are displayed on this page.
  • A presentation slide deck from Rego University 2022.   Broadcom’s presentation on OKRs in an Agile environment.
    • What are OKRs? Why are they important?
    • Why ValueOps for OKRs?
    • How do we do this?
  • A presentation slide deck from Rego University 2022.   Presentations by Erie Insurance, University of California, San Francisco, and The Hershey Company.
  • Connect with user and get familiar with them via Office 365/Azure Profile photos synced with the Clarity PPM Avatars. This is a good way to collaborate with the team and users for any quick update or interaction. This is a scheduled process in Clarity named Sync Profile Photo from Office 365 and will be scheduled to run as a job. When the process is executed, it will be setting the Microsoft O365 profile photo into the users Avatar photo in Clarity PPM and optionally, sync custom attribute of the Resource with profile photo, which can be used for quick identification of the user. Sync Process come with some parameters for the Support team, which they can use as per there environment configurations. These some important Gel parameters for quick configuration are:
    • msProfilePicField : Custom Resource Field to store Photo, if not provided process will skip syncing the custom field.
    • msTenantId: Microsoft Azure Tenant Id
    • msClientId:  Microsoft Azure Application client Id
    • msClientSecret:  Microsoft Azure Application client Secret
    • msTeamPhotoSize: Define size of the photo to be fetched
    • syncPPMAvatar: Parameter to Sync PPM User Avatar photo from MS Team
    Please note, Azure Application Registration is required. To setup an Azure Application: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/healthcare-apis/register-application The application requires the permissions outlined on this link to retrieve the pictures: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/profilephoto-get?view=graph-rest-1.0 Use it along with RegoXchange – MS Teams link to seamlessly have a clickable link to MS Teams Conversations
  • The All Risks portlet displays all risks related to active projects that the logged in user has view rights to access.  The portlet provides the project manager a single place to view risks across multiple projects without having to go into each project individually, and allows for more efficient management and reporting across projects. The portlet displays Project ID, Project, Risk ID, Risk, Category, Assigned to, Status, Probability, Impact, Priority, Target Resolution Date, and Days opened. The filter allows narrowing down of the risks by several different criteria. Note: Only the projects that the user has viewer rights to see will show up in the list.
  • Leverage a Kanban or Sprint approach to manage Clarity Implementation and ongoing improvements.  List also serves as a history of configuration changes, reasons, and deployment dates.
  • This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with the management of Project Tasks via the PPM Gantt view in Clarity’s Modern User Experience.  This doc references version 16.2.1 views. Doc covers PPM Gantt, View Legend, Menu Icons, Create New Task, Indent Tasks, Move Tasks and Set Dependencies.
  • This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with the utilization of some of the most common components in Clarity’s Modern User Experience.  This doc references version 16.2.1 views. Document includes content on Grid View, View Options, Adjust Columns, Details Panel, Group By, Save Views and Manage Views.
  • This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with the use of the Links and Conversations functionality in Clarity’s Modern User Experience.  This doc references version 16.1.2 views.
  • This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with the creation of Risks, Issues and Changes in Clarity’s Modern User Experience.  This doc references version 16.1.2 views. Doc covers creating and management of these project tools.
  • 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 16.1.2 views. Doc covers Project Tiles View, Project Properties – Details page and updating from the Project List view.
  • Many organizations want to transition to a more product-centric delivery model but struggle with how to get started. This session discusses key success factors of Broadcom’s own project-to-product transition with an aim to resolve issues facing your organization.
  • There are many times user’s wants to see the preview of file uploaded on attachment attribute.  This Technical Trick will illustrate the steps for an Administrator to preview an attachment. This solution will help to preview PDF, Text file and Image(.png) file. For Microsoft word, PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel, it displays an icon.
  • A Quick Reference Guide to assist in managing a Custom Investment in Clarity’s Modern UX.  Reviews accessing the Custom Investment Link and navigating the tabs.
  • This video describes the process to Autoschedule a project using OWB. The video is available in both .m4v and .wmv formats.
  • This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with the utilization of Tasks and To Do’s in Clarity’s Modern User Experience.  This doc references version 16.0.2 views.
  • A Quick Reference Guide to assist in the creation of Tasks using the Clarity Gantt.  The screen shots utilize the Classic UX with the Phoenix theme.
  • A Quick Reference Guide that covers how to staff a Team in Clarity’s Modern UX.  It reviewes some of the key terminology, covers Allocation vs. ETC, accessing the Staffing Tab, and viewing time-scaled allocations.
  • Projects may need additional tasks from pre-existing templates for ease of use. When adding the tasks to the project, select any part of the template needed for your project. In this Quick Reference Guide, a project has already been created.
  • Allocation Compliance for PM report gives a view of resource Allocation percentage for active resources on the team of an investment for a selected Investment Manager. It allows the PM to see resources on their project over the coming months and whether they are over or under allocated. Allocation Percentage is calculated as (‘Allocated Hours’ / ‘Available Hours’) * 100. User can further narrow their search Month Start Date and Investment Manager. User can use exact dates or relative dates for Month Start Date filter parameter.
  • Course description: “Are some of your users leveraging a Smartsheet add-on for project planning, or are you looking for an alternative to OWB and MSP? Learn how this new scheduling tool is making waves and adding value for project managers working within CA PPM.”  Download file is the presentation slidedeck.
  • The Time Tracking Stalker - RM workflow process automatically sends an email to Resource Managers for each one of their resources that have not submitted their timesheet for a prior open time period, thus informing the RM if their resources are submitting their timesheets on time. Project Managers will also benefit since the notifications will help to ensure that time is being posted against their projects in a timely manner, helping to provide them with an accurate view of time expended on the projects.
  • The Re-Baseline via Change Request process is a simple method for a member of the project (who has the ability to create change requests) to request a re-baseline of the project without the project manager having to perform it. First, the user must create the change request. The user must then start the process within the change request by using the Processes tab. Once started, the process will route an action item to the Project Manager. If rejected, the process will end and the user must start it again (if needed). If approved, the process will then baseline the project and close out the change request.
    • ITFM Introduction
    • PMO & IT Finance Collaboration
    • Where ITFM and PPM Meet
    • Connecting PPM with ITFM
  • Course Description:   Struggling to figure out how to best organize your blueprints? This class will walk through best practice blueprint design, including how many to have, how to use channels, using custom subobjects within the blueprint, and swapping blueprints at various project stages to mimic project phases or ideas. We’ll highlight some of the creative ways we’ve seen blueprints used in client implementations.
  • 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 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.
  • A presentation slide deck from Rego University 2022.   This document reviews the best practices for project management in Clarity.
    • Typical PM Activities
    • Use Clarity: Get Off of Excel
    • Make Information Easier to Access
    • Make Flags Easy to Identify
    • Simplify & Automate Reporting
    • Open Discussion #3
    • Work with a Regular Cadence
    • Sample Schedule
     
  • Launch a Team chat with your users directly from the Clarity PPM tool. This is a good way to collaborate with the team and users for any quick update or interaction. This is a scheduled process in Clarity named Sync MS Team Launching Chat URL and will be scheduled to run for various frequency. When the process kick in it will be setting the Team link into the custom URL attribute of the Resource, which can be used to Launch Team chat from the tool. Sync Process come with two parameters for the Support team, which they can use as per there environment configurations. These two Gel parameters for quick configuration are:
    •  launchMSTeamField: parameter for the Custom Resource Field to store Launch URL
    •   emailAddressField: parameter for field to pick mail address in SRM_RESOURCES table
  • The Allocation Compliance by Person (Project Manager) portlet gives a view of resource allocation compliance for active resources on the team of an investment the logged in user is the manager for.  It allows the PM to see resources on their project over the coming months and whether they are over or under allocated.   This portlet leverages the daily allocation and daily availability slices as well as only active investments.  The portlet provides filters for specific dates, filtering by resource ID, and resource name may also be added.
  • The All Tasks portlet displays all tasks related to active projects that the logged in user has view rights to.  The portlet provides the project manager a single place to view tasks across multiple projects without having to go into each project individually, and allows for more efficient management and reporting across projects. The portlet displays project actuals and estimates from the project (datamart tables). The portlet allows analysis like:
    • PMs may have several critical tasks that were supposed to start on a certain date.  To verify progress, they filter for that start date to perform a review of the tasks.
    • PMs can review days late to see how tasks are doing against the baseline date (<7 days is green, 7-14 is yellow, and >14 is red)
    • PMs can review days old to see how tasks are doing against today’s date (<7 days is green, 7-14 is yellow, and >14 is red)
    The table below describes the available columns in the portlet. The first 10 are configured in the default view:
    Column Label Description
    Project ID Unique project identifier
    Project Name Name of the project
    Project Manager Manager of the project
    Task Name Name of the task
    Task Status Not Started, Started, or Completed
    Task Start Start Date of this task
    Task Finish Finish Date of this task
  • The All Status Reports portlet displays any published Status Report related to a project or across multiple projects. The filter then allows the user to narrow their search by Project Manager, Project, Status or Overall Status Category (overall, cost & effort, scope or schedule).  The user may also select if they wish to view only current Status Reports, or to include historical reports as well. The portlet provides the project manager a single place to view all of the status reports without having to go into each project individually, and allows for more efficient management and reporting across projects. Note: Only the projects that the user has view rights to will show up in the list.
  • The Project Schedule report provides visibility into project schedule, including detailed information on days late, status and its associated items such as detailed info of schedule on Phase level, Task level and assignment level. Results are grouped by project in Phase, Task and assignment sections or can be viewed without grouping to support flexible analysis for projects. Interactive visuals make it easy to track, monitor, and manage schedule across projects.
  • Nudge is a new tool developed by Rego to capture team sentiment in an anonymous, unobtrusive way, using micro surveys through MS Teams.
  • An engaging, informative session delivered to your organization by a Prosci change management expert. Your leaders, project managers, and others focused on project outcomes will learn how applying change management to projects can increase the likelihood of those projects succeeding. They will also learn about the processes, people and tools needed to align project management and change management.
  • This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with the use of the Links and Conversations functionality in Clarity’s Modern User Experience.  This doc references version 16.2.1 views.
  • 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 16.2.1 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 tile view.
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