Committed portfolio selection decision schedule project field

The Committed Portfolio Selection Decision (Schedule) field shows the result of a resource constraint analysis on a project. You can choose Selected, Unselected, Forced-In/Out, or Custom Forced-In/Out.

Data Type    Enumerated

Entry Type    Calculated

Best Uses    By working through a resource constraint analysis as part of a Portfolio Selection Scenario, you can choose which projects to invest in based on project resource requirements versus organizational resource capacity. You can save multiple Portfolio Selection Scenarios, including various models for project dates and hiring methods and values, for further analysis.

After a resource constraint Portfolio Selection Scenario is committed, the selection decision for each project is saved in the Committed Portfolio Selection Decision (Schedule) field for each project. The commitment decision is shown as Selected, Unselected, Forced-in, or Forced-out. There might an additional custom value for a Forced-in or Forced-out decision based on a custom lookup table that lists reasons for a Forced-in or Forced-out decision.

You can add the Committed Portfolio Selection Decision (Schedule) field to Project Center views, reports, and project field Web Parts for review by project and portfolio stakeholders. By doing this, you and others on the team can see the commitment decision that was made as a result of the resource analysis.

Example    As a result of working through the Portfolio Strategy process, you have asked Project Server to run a resource analysis on the proposed "Develop SOX-compliant auditing mechanism" project. When you decide to commit to this project, you see that the Committed Portfolio Selection Decision (Schedule) field displays "Forced-In" because this project is part of a regulatory requirement.

Remarks     When a resource constraint Portfolio Selection Scenario is committed, its parent cost constraint Portfolio Selection Scenario is also committed and the relevant fields—Committed Portfolio Selection Decision (Cost) and Committed Portfolio Selection Decision Date (Cost)—are updated.

In Project Web App you can add this field to a Project Center summary view, for example.