Managing Portfolios with Clarity Course

Course Code: MQ 605
Course Abstract: The goal of this course is to be able to utilize the portfolio analysis and scenario capabilities of Clarity Portfolio Manager.  This course is designed as demonstration and discussion followed by structured exercises for each subject. This gives each participant an opportunity to practice what they’ve just learned, and encourages them to apply their understanding to real-world portfolio management challenges.
Audience: This course is designed for individuals who are portfolio managers who will be using Clarity Portfolio Manager to scope, plan, evaluate, limit, and distribute funds to high-priority initiatives.
Duration: 1 day
Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

> Create a portfolio inventory
> Evaluate possible investments via budget, business case and alignment to corporate goals
> Categorize and score a portfolio based upon alignment to corporate goals
> Implement decisions made to add, continue or suspend investments
> Use and understand the Portfolio Portlets
> Create and apply different scenarios
> Apply processes

Course Topics:

Clarity and Portfolio Management
Gain an understanding of Clarity’s Portfolio Management capabilities.
Review Clarity Project Management and Portfolio Management Terms and Definitions
Present an overview of Portfolio Management

Creating Portfolios
Create a new portfolio
Managing a Portfolio’s Content:
Adding or Removing contents to a portfolio
Include or Exclude
Power Filters
Adding Individual Projects
Synchronizing Investment Types

Opening and Navigating in Portfolios
Opening and Navigating in a Portfolio
Using the Portfolio Page Toolbar

Grouping Portfolios
Adding Child/Parent Portfolio Associations
Rolling Up Budgeted Costs and Budgeted Benefits from Child Portfolios
Distributing Budgeted Costs and Budgeted Benefits from a Parent Portfolio
Removing Child Portfolio Associations

Using the Portfolio Scorecard
Analyzing Portfolios Using the Scorecard
Presenting Information on the Scorecard
Viewing the Portfolios Investment Portlet
Viewing the Portfolios Balance Portlet
Viewing the Portfolios Gantt Portlet
Viewing the Portfolios Financials Portlet

Using the Portfolio Analyze Tab
Life-cycle Funnel Portlet
Budgeted Cost Portlet
Benefits by Goal Portlet
Cost/Benefit Portlet
ROI/Alignment Zones Portlet
Risk/Reward Quadrant

Scenarios
Scenario Overview
Viewing a List of Scenarios
Building Scenarios
Adding Constraints to Portfolio Scenarios
Pinning Investments
Including and Excluding Scenario Investments

Setting Scenario Optimization Parameters
Adding Optimization Attributes
Ranking Investments
Ranking Optimization Parameters
Ranking Scalar, Unbounded and Enumerated Attributes
Weighting Optimization Parameters

Using the Efficient Frontier
Determining and Constructing the Graph
Analyzing the Efficient Frontier
Viewing the List of Candidate Scenarios
Viewing and Comparing Candidate Scenarios

Adding Investments to Scenarios
Adding Investments to your Scenario
Completing Excluding a Scenario Investment
Hiding /Un-hiding Scenario Investments

Managing Scenarios
Opening and Navigating Scenarios
Communicating Scenarios
Applying Scenarios to Portfolios
Copying, Viewing and Modifying Scenarios
Resource Capacity Planning with Scenarios
Deleting Scenarios

Prerequisites: This course requires working knowledge of the Clarity environment including navigation of the user interface. Portfolio Mangers should also have attended the Managing Projects with Clarity course or possess a working knowledge of the Clarity Project Manager module.
Note: All fields are required
At the present time we do not offer training for individuals or groups less then 6 individuals. We apologize for any inconvenience.


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