Adding objectives to portfolio plans

Portfolio plan strategic objectives set performance goals that are measured by using metrics for program or project evaluation and for scenario evaluation.

About this task

Strategic objectives can be propagated to child portfolio plans that are listed in the Sub Portfolio Plans section on the General tab. In a child-level plan, IBM® Maximo® Real Estate and Facilities copies from the parent plan objectives indicated to be propagated. You can add objectives to the Objectives section.

Procedure

  1. From the Objectives section of the portfolio plan, click Add.
  2. Complete the Planning Objective form.
    In the Objective Details section, the fields have the following meanings:
    • Objective Category establishes a grouping of objectives. It is used for top-level aggregation during evaluation and performance metric analysis. The result is the sum of the rating scores for the direct child plans. By default, it is set to Strategic. Portfolio plan strategic objectives can be used for setting performance goals (measured by using metrics), for program/project evaluation and for scenario evaluation.
    • Objective Type establishes a subgrouping of objectives within a category. The result is the sum of the rating scores for the direct child plans. The standard choices are Customer, Environmental, Financial, Operational, Portfolio, and Regulatory.
    • Propagation Rule establishes whether this planning objective is propagated to child plans. The values are All and No Propagation.
    • Default Threshold defines the appropriate minimum and maximum range of acceptable performance for this objective.
    • Importance Ranking is similar to a priority or a weighting factor. The importance sets the relative ranking of this objective as compared with other objectives. The values are 1 – Low, 3 – Medium, and 5 – High. The ranking is used for scoring.
    • Importance is the importance ranking.
  3. Click Create to add the planning objective to the Objectives section.
  4. Click Save to propagate the objective to subplans as indicated by the value of the Propagation Rule.