Contributed by Kevin Mah, Program Manager, Global Product Education at CA Technologies
CA Education knows an enabled and educated customer is a satisfied customer. With this in mind, we are pleased to announce that the following Self-Directed and Instructor Led Training (ILT) and Virtual Learning (VL) learning opportunities are available on the Education Portal.
Note: Public schedules are subject to change anytime without notice. Please be sure to visit the CA Education Portal for up-to-date course schedules. For more information, please contact your CA Technologies Education representative.
This course covers the enhancements and changes since CA Clarity PPM 14.1. You will learn about enhancements to the Portfolio management functionality and Microsoft Project integration, the new reporting functionality, and the new, updated, and discontinued support for third party applications.
This new course, delivered as an OnDemand WBT, is for the user who is responsible for capacity planning in CA Clarity PPM. It will show how to create and manage resource and role profiles and capture and define data elements. After the resources are established, the staffing methods (formal and informal), the Resource Finder function, and the resource requisition tools will be demonstrated. In addition, there will be a review of the Allocations screens and Capacity Planning functionality.
This new course, offered as an Dynamic Lab consisting of 19.5 hours of self-directed learning, is for users who will manage projects using CA Clarity PPM. Project management procedures from start to finish are taught, including project setup, assembling a project team, managing project risks, issues, and change requests, and closing out a project. Procedures pertinent to controlling the progression of a project are demonstrated. Setting project baselines, identifying dependencies, and the use of Gantt charts are demonstrated.
This new course, offered as an Dynamic Lab consisting of 6.5 hours of self-directed learning, is for the user who is responsible for capacity planning in CA Clarity PPM. It will show how to create and manage resource and role profiles and capture and define data elements. After the resources are established, the staffing methods (formal and informal), the Resource Finder function, and the resource requisition tools will be demonstrated. In addition, there will be a review of the Allocations screens and Capacity Planning functionality.
This new course, offered as an Dynamic Lab consisting of 19.5 hours of self-directed learning, teaches how to use CA Clarity PPM to define your OBS and plan, allocate, and record project costs according to this defined structure. The creation of cost- and rate-related matrices; the establishment, approval, and adjustment of cost plans; and the posting of financial transactions are also demonstrated.
This new course, offered as an Dynamic Lab consisting of 13 hours of self-directed learning, shows you how to create, maintain, and analyze the true cost and benefit of organizational initiatives using the performance analysis and scorecard features of CA Clarity PPM.
CA PPM ILT/VL Courses Scheduled for 2015 Q2
The following CA PPM Instructor Led Training (ILT)/Virtual Learning (VL) courses are listed on the public Education Portal schedules for 2015 Q2:
CA Clarity PPM 14.x: Project and Investment Management 200 (33CLR23091)
CA Clarity PPM 14x: Resource Management 200 (33CLR23101)
CA Clarity PPM 14.x: Financial Management 200 (33CLR23111)
CA Clarity PPM 14x: Portfolio Management 200 (33CLR23121)
CA Clarity PPM 13.3: Foundations II 200 Bundle (33CLR2275B)
- 4/6/15 9:00 AM America/Sao Paulo 426A – LA BRAZIL, Sao Paulo
CA Clarity PPM 13.3: Project, Resource and Portfolio Management 200 Bundle (33CLR2265B)
- 4/14/15 10:00 AM America/New York NA-USA-Virtual Learning-Quest
CA Clarity PPM r13.2: Business Administration 200 (33CLR22461)
CA Clarity PPM r13.2: Data and Reporting 200 (33CLR21981)
CA Clarity PPM v13: Integration 300 (33CLR30021)
CA Clarity PPM 13x: Studio Configuration 300 (33CLR30061)
See this article on the CA Clarity PPM Cookbook