The Portfolio form allows for administration of the project portfolio-management for any selected projects and qualitative characteristics. Project portfolio-management means planning, regulating and controlling selected projects of an organisation.

The basis of the project portfolio-management is the combining of projects. In this form projects can be combined and the axes for the analysis can be predefined.

Tip: For more on this subject see chapter 4.2.10 Portfoliomanagement.

The form consists of the following elements:

On the “Master Data” tab:

• Name: This alphabetic field specifies the portfolio uniquely in the system.
• Description: This field specifies the portfolio (long text, 255 charac ters).
• Standard-X, Standard-Y und Standard-Z: These values allow defining the standard axes for the portfolio for the porfolio analysis. The key figures (Kennzahlen) for the axes are for example, planned time/effort, actual time/effort, planned costs, actual costs, planned revenue, offer value, invoice amount, probability and degree of completion.
• Standard Color: This value allows defining the catagory for the color of the bubbles in the bubble-chart (portfolio analysis). These catagories are, for example, the project catagory, priority and the project status.
• Projects: In this selection box any amount of projects can be combined to a portfolio.

The document type consists of the following actions:

• Portfolio Chart: With this action a portfolio analysis for the selected portfolio can directly be opened.