PV-1 Project Properties
Within projects, you can define costs, benefits, risks, create a business case, set a timeline, define deliverables, and more. You can group projects by portfolios.
To access project properties:
1. In the navigation menu, click Projects Viewpoint > PV-1 Project Portfolio Relationships > Projects.
2. Select a project and open its properties.
Defining the Project Charter
To define the charter for a project:
1. Select the project concerned and display its properties.
2. In the properties window, click the drop down-list and select Project Charter.
The definition of the project charter includes:
• The identification:
• project name
• project owner domain
• project code (optional)
• project manager
• state (life cycle status) Defined automatically.
• status (workflow step). Defined automatically.
• description (comment)
• The project category or categories. See Idea category.
• The initiating ideas: ideas that have inspired the project.
Defining the Business Case of a Project
To define the business case for a project:
1. Select the project concerned and display its properties.
2. In the properties window, click the drop down-list and select Business Case.
Transformation purpose
A project has a purpose with respect to the capabilities of the enterprise (as defined in a capability map); it can:
• deliver the means to acquire a new capability (innovation)
• extend the coverage of a capability already held (improvement)
• restrict or abandon the coverage of an existing capability (rationalization).
To add a transformation objective to the project:
1. In the Transformation Purpose section, click New.
The creation dialog box for a transformation purpose opens.
2. Specify:
• its name
• the transformation type (Innovation, Improvement, Rationalization)
• the capability transformed
3. Click OK.
To obtain a report of transformed capabilities by project, see Project to Transformed Capability Mapping.Project Deliverables
A project deliverable defines the result of a project and its impact or its contribution to the architectural solution landscape of the enterprise.
It is defined by an architecture block (example: an organization, an application, an infrastructure element) delivered by the project in the target architectural landscape. Within the framework of a project deliverable, a block can be:
• New: the project delivers a new block to the target architectural landscape.
• Updated: the project modifies an existing block in the current landscape, for example by extending its lifecycle, and delivers the updated version to the target architectural landscape.
• Deleted: the project deletes an existing target architectural block, which will therefore not be part of the target landscape.
To add a deliverable to the project:
1. In the Deliverables section, click New.
The window for creating a deliverable appears.
2. Specify if you want to:
• create a new block
• update an existing block
• decommission an existing block
3. Click Next.
4. Specify:
• the deliverable name
• the deliverable type
• the deliverable production dates
5. Click OK.
Project Dependencies
A project can depend on other projects:
• In a "positive" sense: a project can have another project as a prerequisite, of which one of the deliverables is necessary to build a deliverable of the dependent project (this is the equivalent of an AND logic: both projects must be conducted jointly to reach the final result).
• In a "negative" sense: two projects can be concurrent and mutually exclusive (this is the equivalent of the OR logic: only one of the projects must be managed, not both).
To associate a dependency with the project:
1. In the Project Dependencies section, click New.
2. Specify:
• The name of the dependency
• The project required
• The type of dependency: "Exclusive" or "Prerequisite".
3. Click OK.
Benefits
You can specify:
• the Qualitative Benefits: to be entered as a comment.
• the Financial Value of the project: in currency = project NPV (net present value), calculated outside the tool according to the standards of the enterprise.
• the Return on Investment: calculated attribute, as a %
(Financial value - Budget) / budget
(Financial value - Budget) / budget
• the Forecast Return on Investment: calculated attribute, as a %
(Financial value - Estimated total cost) / Estimated total cost
(Financial value - Estimated total cost) / Estimated total cost
• the Actual Return on Investment: calculated attribute, as a %
(Financial value - Real total cost) / Real total cost
(Financial value - Real total cost) / Real total cost
Risks
You can identify the risks linked to a project. Each risk is associated with a single project.
To create a project risk:
1. Expand the Risk section.
2. Click New.
The risk creation dialog box appears.
3. Enter the name of the risk and the type of risk (cost, deadline, quality).
4. Click OK.