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Project and Program Hints

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Stefan Schneider
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This article lists the information displayed in the hints for projects and programs in Meisterplan.

Hints may be disabled and reenabled with the [Alt]+[H] keyboard shortcut.

Project Hint

Hover over a project's list item to display the following information:

Project_Hint.jpg

  • Name
  • Start
  • Finish
  • Rank: when working with a scenario, the current rank in the active scenario and, in brackets, the rank in the compared scenario or plan of record if the project exists there, counting only projects and programs that also exist in the active scenario. Projects in programs inherit the program's rank, followed by their position in the program (e.g., the first project in a program ranked first has the rank 1.1). See the Rank and Project Score article for details.
  • Project Score: sum of project score values assigned to the project via lookup values of the Status field and of custom project fields of the Lookup type. See the Rank and Project Score article for details.
  • Status: if you have rights for this field. See the Field Configuration article for details.
  • Project Manager
  • Created by: if created in Meisterplan
  • Data Source: "Meisterplan (Plan of Record)" for projects created in the plan of record, data source name and "(Plan of Record)" for imported projects, scenario name and "(Scenario)" for projects created in a scenario.
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  • Notes
  • All custom project fields enabled for hints for which you have field rights, with colors for lookup fields. See the Field Configuration article for details. In the above screenshot, this includes the Stage Gate, Degree of Completion, Strategy Fit, Payback Period, and Risk Level fields)
  • Business Goal: see the Strategy View article for details.
  • Allocation Total: sum of all role and resource allocations belonging to this project. The first unit is always FTE. The second unit in brackets depends on the selected project allocation unit. See the Project Allocation Unit section of the Portfolio Designer Settings article for details.
  • OpEx, CapEx, Benefit: from role and resource allocations and financial events
  • Net Value: Benefit - OpEx - CapEx
  • Financial Events: see the Adding and Editing Financial Events section of the Edit Project Window article for details.

Program Hint

Hover over a program's project list item to display the following information:

Program_Hint.jpg

  • Name
  • Start
  • Finish
  • Rank: when working with a scenario, the current rank in the active scenario and, in brackets, the rank in the compared scenario or plan of record if the program exists there, counting only projects and programs that also exist in the active scenario. See the Rank and Project Score article for details.
  • Project Score: highest score among included projects. See Project Score above and the Rank and Project Score article for details.
  • Allocation Total: sum of all role and resource allocations belonging to projects in this program. The first unit is always FTE. The second unit in brackets depends on the selected project allocation unit. See the Project Allocation Unit section of the Portfolio Designer Settings article for details.
  • OpEx, CapEx, Benefit: from role and resource allocations and financial events of included projects.
  • Net Value: Benefit - OpEx - CapEx

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