PPM Implementation Flashcards
What feature does Teamspace application provide?
How many Teamspaces can you install?
- Allows customers to provide functional and data separation of the applications between different teams in the organization.
- 5
When installing ______, Agile Development 2.0 and Test Management 2.0 are available for installation by an administrator?
PPM Standard
Agile Development 2.0 application is using what framework?
SCRUM
________ application allows customers to plan and manage investments by allocating funds to different entities (i.e portfolios, programs, projects, demands, epics, etc.) and prioritizing investments based on business needs and strategic objectives?
Investment Funding for PPM (com.snc.investment_planning_pmo)
_______ application allows intake of ideas through the Idea Portal. It can help gather and evaluate ideas efficiently and to quickly identify and process the ideas with the greatest potential for implementation?
Innovation Management (com.snc.ppm_innovation_management) ***Ideation with PPM (in Quebec)
A customer’s (company) journey can align itself to business outcomes or use cases and span five areas?
- Fully Aligned Organization
- IT as Valued Partner
- Prioritize IT & Business Investments
- Aligning to IT Business Needs
- IT Centric
_________ plugin enables you to request or allocate funds for your projects and demands?
Investment Funding for PPM plugin [com.snc.investment_planning_pmo]
Project Portfolio Management quick start tests is available after activating the ________ plugin
PPM Standard - ATF Tests plugin [com.snc.financial_planning_pmo.atf] (provides you test cases and test suits that can be run on the PPM Standard Application)
_____ plugin can be activated to create and compare scenarios for a portfolio?
Scenario Planning for PPM [sn_pw_scenario]
______ plugin evaluates the strategic value of demands and projects and has capability to allocate strategy and goal percentages and generate breakdowns?
Strategic Spend Tracking for PPM [sn_ppm_sst] ( It also provides a dashboard to view how the planned costs, actual costs, and benefits for projects aligned to the organization’s goals and strategies trend over time in order to accurately understand the financial performance of your organization)
What Performance Analytics - Content Packs are there (3)?
- Performance Analytics - Content Pack - PPM Standard [com.snc.pa.pmo_dashboards] (activates PPM Std when installed)
- Performance Analytics - Content Pack - Project Portfolio Suite Dashboards [com.snc.pps_dashboards]
- Performance Analytics Premium for Project Portfolio Management [com.snc.pa.premium.ppm] (cost extra)
What table is these tables extended from: Idea-Demand-Project-Program?
Task table
The tables that are installed with project teamspaces are prefixed with an _______?
It´s best practice to identify them as e.g?
- Abbreviation based on the name of teamspace
2. tsp1, tsp2, etc
The tables installed with project teamspaces are extended from these _____ base application tables (3)?
Project
Idea
Demand
PPM Data Models can show us the relationships between _______ ?
Tables from an application data model (i.e Project)
What role has access to the Project Administration application which includes access to settings for project preferences, resource properties and more?
PPS admin role [it_pps_admin]
The ______ role serves as the base role for a teamspace?
PPS Admin [it_pps_admin]
Base groups (for users) already exist in PPM, they include (4)?
Project Manager
Project Users
Portfolio Managers
Program Managers
What role is needed to evaluate and submitted idea and promote them to task (2)?
Idea or Demand Manager
The Idea Portal retrieves data from the ______ ?
Idea module
How many category tables can you map to an Idea Module?
One
Approved ideas become ____ ?
Tasks (these tasks can include demands, projects, epics or stories)
Ideas that are accepted by the idea manager need to be placed into one of the following states (3)?
In Backlog
Planned
In Development
Is it possible for the Demand Manager to click Create Task to manually convert an Idea to a task?
Yes
Data fields from the idea record are carried over and pre-populated in the demand record, the base system carries over the following fields (3)?
Demand Name (title of idea) Idea Number (read-only) Description (Business Case tab on Demand)
Idea states are created in what table?
[im_idea_core] table
States for Idea´s are created in the [im_idea_core] table. States are persisted in the [sys_choice] table. As an implementer, you have the ability to modify or add states by configuring the choice options in the _______ table.
[sys_choice] table
Which table should you extend to use in Idea module definition?
[im_idea_core]
What Task Types can an Idea be converted to if plugin Project Portfolio Management is installed (2) ?
Demand
Project
What Task Types can an Idea be converted to if plugin Agile Development 2.0 is installed (2) ?
Epic
Story
What Task Types can an Idea be converted to if plugin Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is installed (3) ?
SAFe epic
SAFe feature
SAFe story
What Task Types can an Idea be converted to if plugin Continual Improvement Management is installed (1) ?
Improvement Initiative
Idea to demand, the Story, Epic, Enhancement, and Defect options only appear if the administrator has activated the _____ plugin?
Agile Development 2.0
Idea to demand, the SAFe story, SAFe feature, and SAFe epic options only appear if the administrator has activated either the ____ or _______ plugin?
Essential SAFe
Portfolio SAFe
What group of users evaluate demands?
Stakeholders
This table stores all stakeholders. When creating users in this table, you can create stakeholders without an association to a portfolio. This allows stakeholders to belong to one or more portfolios, what is the table?
Stakeholder register [dmn_stakeholder_register]
This table stores all stakeholders who are associated with one or more demands. Having this table allows demand managers flexibility to update stakeholders values for function, influence, level of interest, engagement, approver and assessment recipient and fields different than the stakeholder register record, what is the table?
Demand stakeholder [dmn_m2m_demand_stakeholder]
Using what table allows the demand manager to include a one-off stakeholder that may not belong to a single portfolio?
Demand stakeholder [dmn_m2m_demand_stakeholder]
If a demand manager modifies stakeholder fields in a demand record, does it affect the stakeholder register record?
No
If a demand manager associates a portfolio to a demand, will the system populate the demand stakeholder list with users that have portfolio association?
Yes
Can users associate other stakeholders to a demand even if they are not part of the associated portfolio?
Yes (within the related list)
What needs to be set to True/Yes within the demand/stakeholder related list for a assessment to be sent to a specific stakeholder?
Assessment Recipient (set to true/yes)
Does [dmn_m2m_demand_stakeholder] table update the [dmn_stakeholder_register] record?
No
Once assessments are completed, a ______ updates the demand state to Qualified?
business rule
What is the default demand type?
Project
A demand score is calculated based on _______(3) attributes in the base system and are based on data obtained through demand assessments?
Risk
Value
Size
When risk and size are high, the score of the demand is what?
Low (when value is high, the score of the demand is high)
Each metric for a demand is calculated based on formulas and business rules. Weights are applied to produce a normalized value which represents the ________ ?
average response
What role can administer metric definition (by navigating to Assessments > Metric Definition > Metrics)?
it_pps_admin
Demand Management comes with two demand visualization tools that can help demand managers make decisions about which demands are worth the effort based on stakeholder feedback?
Demand Workbench
Demand Roadmap.
By default, the Demand workbench displays Demands in the ____ state?
Qualified
Demand Roadmap is a timeline visualization that displays a list of all demands grouped by _____?
Portfolio (demand must have a portfolio to be viewed in timeline)
The two base system roles in Demand application (2)?
it_demand_user
it_demand_manager
What are the 5 phases for a Project (NOW Create)?
Initiate Plan Execute Deliver Close
What is a baseline in Project Workspace?
Snapshot of the current planned start & end dates
_______ is the parent table for project and project task tables?
Planned task