Welcome to the CA Clarity PPM Accelerator for the PMBOK® Guide add-in (PMBOK Guide Accelerator) release notes. This add-in is based on CA Clarity PPM. This document can help you get started with this add-in.
The PMBOK Guide Accelerator provides project managers faster configuration of CA Clarity PPM when using best practices from A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide).
This section contains the following topics:
Certified and Supported Versions
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The following new features are available with this version:
See the product guide for detailed information on how to apply the changes installed by this add-in.
The following features are available as of this version:
The PMBOK Guide Accelerator includes nine documents based on document templates from The PMI® Compendium of Project Management Practices. Project teams can create an unlimited number of each document per project to meet their needs.
The following documents are provided:
After preparing the documents, project managers can submit six of the nine documents for review. When submitted, the documents are locked from updates, and members who have been specified as the project review team are notified that their review or approval is required. The document statuses are then updated based on the review team’s actions. Documents remain locked from updates unless the review team rejects them.
The following document review and approval process are included:
Project managers can send emails to update the change control board members that they have made changes to the project plan.
The PMBOK Guide Accelerator includes a project dashboard with the following portlets:
The PMBOK Guide Accelerator includes two reports formatted for distribution in project status meetings. The Project Report shows historical project reports, including historical views of project KPIs at the time of report submission. The Project Status Snapshot shows an up-to-date view of key project information and performance data pulled from key documents and the project activities.
The PMBOK Guide Accelerator includes four management views. Stakeholders and project managers can monitor key information across projects. The management view pages provide summary information for selected project artifacts, and easy drilldown to source documents for more details.
The following management views are included:
Stakeholders and project managers can review key information across their projects using the three portlets on this dashboard: Project Status, Project Variance and Performance, and Projects by Phases.
The PMBOK Guide Accelerator includes access groups representing specific project roles. Each access group is associated with a set of access rights to secure and restrict access to specific CA Clarity PPM features and data, including pages, portlets, and fields.
The PMBOK Guide Accelerator includes two project templates. Projects that you create based on one of these templates can use features included in this add-in. The PMBOK® Guide Project Planning Checklist Template project template comes with 38 tasks that map to the tasks listed on the PMI Compendium’s project planning checklist.
For information about add-in version compatibility with CA Clarity PPM, see the Change Impact and Upgrade Guide.
The user interface is available in the following supported languages:
The most recent editions of localized documentation are available online from the Documentation link on CA Support.
This guide contains product overview, installation instructions, and download instructions. It includes detailed processes and procedures on how to use the add-in.
The most recent versions of the guide and release notes are available from the Documentation page on CA Support. Visit this web site periodically for the latest editions of the documentation.
For information on known issues, visit CA Support Online and search the keyword: pmo3open. Any related articles and known issues are displayed.
This product incorporates The PMI® Compendium of Project Management Practices and the PMI Combined Standards Glossary, which is copyrighted material owned by Project Management Institute, Inc. ("PMI Material"). The PMI Material is licensed by PMI to CA for use in and with this product. Unauthorized reproduction of PMI Material is strictly prohibited. PMBOK is a trademark and PMI is a service mark and trademark of the Project Management Institute, Inc., which are registered in the United States and other nations.
While this product contains PMI Material reproduced with permission of PMI, such licensing of PMI material does not constitute an endorsement of this product.
This guide includes the publication of the following documents, which are based on document templates from The PMI Compendium of Project Management Practices:
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