Product news Antura Projects 5.8

Simulation and scenario management

Using the simulation function in Antura Projects, a user can create various scenarios to experiment with overall project planning. In this way it is possible to anticipate the consequences of budgeted resources, costs and effects. It is possible to create and name any number of scenarios. Every scenario contains settings to:

• Make a selection of projects using project filter
• Select what projects in the selection to be included in the scenario (for instance, to test what happens if a project never started)
• Select what resources to be included
• Select what roles to be included
• Select what organizational units to be included
• Control if the capacity limit (maximum number of hours per period) for resources should appear or not

The simulation is made with the following parameters:

• Select or unselect separate projects based on their priority, ranking, risk or other relevant aspects
• Move projects forward and backward in time (by drag and drop Gantt bars)

For each scenario resource allocation, costs or effects per month are shown.

Support for ”burn rate” in line charts

Antura Projects line charts have been extended with the following choices to support so-called "burn rate":

• Plan resources (total)
• Actual / forecasting resources (accumulated)
• Budget costs (total)
• Actual / forecast costs (accumulated)
• Budget effects (total)
• Actual / forecast effects (accumulated)

The choices make it possible to clearly see the performance and forecast on resources, costs and effects compared to total budget.

PDF exports of Dashboards

The view Dashboards is a configurable dashboard that displays information about the project portfolio in so-called "gadgets". It is now possible to export this view as a PDF report.