Capture project group data
Project portfolio management in Alfabet focuses on projects focused on IT transformation. Alfabet 's integrates project management with the IT architecture to ensure that you understand the dependencies between your assets.
In Alfabet, IT projects are bundled in project groups that allow you to evaluate and analyze projects in the context of various project portfolios. You can maintain current and new projects targeting the IT infrastructure and track their progress, define milestones, analyze the assets in the IT architecture that are impacted by the project, and determine where project's can be consolidated. Insight around costs and investments enable you to manage and maintain the capital expenditures (CAPEX) for all projects running in your organization.
You can add a new project group from anywhere in the product via the orange New button in the header. Or go to Investment Architecture > Project Groups:
- Add a project group at the top-level of the hierarchy. Click the root node of the explorer and click the New button. The edit panel opens on the right where you can define basic data. The Name attribute is mandatory.
- Create a new project group as a child (subordinate) of this project group. Click the parent project group in the explorer, go to Overview > Subordinate Project Groups view. Click New > Create New Project Group.
- Make an existing project group a child (subordinate) of this project group. Click the parent project group in the explorer, go to Overview > Subordinate Project Groups view. Click New > Move Existing Project Group Here. A selector opens where you can chose a project group and move it to this project group. The project group you chose is now a child of the project group you are working with.
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Edit a project group. Edit the project group directly in the data table. Or select the checkbox
for the project group you want to edit and click the Edit 
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Navigate to the project group's content area.Click the Navigate
button next to a project to open its content area. Specify the project group's attributes as well as the relationships that the project has to other assets in the repository.
Try to capture as much information as possible about the project because complete data considerably improves the results of business questions and other analytics.
Once a project group is in the repository, you can define more details about the project groups in the Project Groups data workbench.
Per default, the data workbench displays only a set of basic attributes. You can add more columns to capture other attributes directly in the data workbench via the Structure column or you can navigate to an project group's content area and define it in more detail there. Click to learn about how to use data workbenches.
Or you can select an individual project group and navigate to its content area and specify and analyze the project in detail. In the data workbench, click the Navigate button to open the project group's content area. Go to the Overview page.
Define the project group's basic data. All mandatory fields must be defined to create the project group and save it.
- Name: (Mandatory) Enter a name for the project group. You can add an abbreviation (3-4 letters) of the name in the Short Name field to use in diagrams and other visualizations
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Type: Select the type of projects that will be assigned to the project group. Possible values are:
- Project: Project group with many similar projects that make up a single focused effort.
- Program: Project group with different projects that together constitute a complete package of work.
- Description: If necessary, enter a meaningful description that will clarify the purpose of the project group.
Projects must already be in the repository in order to assign projects to a project group. Some business questions in Alfabet can only be answered if the relationships between projects and project groups are defined. Click to find out how to capture project data.
Project groups logically structure and bundle the projects and allow you to assess the project portfolio. You can assign projects to multiple project groups in order to analyze your projects from various perspectives.
Click the navigate button of the project group to open the content area. Go to Overview > Asset Grouping. In the Projects field, enter the name of the project you want to assign to the project group. Or click in the field to open the selector and select each project that you want to assign to the project group. Click outside of the selector to close it and update the Asset Grouping field.