Implementing Project Portfolio Management: From Organization Structure to Recognized Revenue · Module 3 · Organization Structures
What breaks
Lesson 38 of 198 · 3 min
"I cannot create a project." Check in this order. One. Does the business unit have the project accounting business function? Two. Is the project unit associated with that business unit? Three. Is the owning organization classified as project-and-task-owning? Four. Is that organization in the hierarchy assigned to this business unit? Five. Is the classification effective on the date you are using? Six. Do you have business unit and project unit access? Note that three and four are two different checks. That is the whole of failure case two. Then eight cases. One. "The business unit does not appear in PPM setup." The project accounting business function is not enabled. Two. "The owning organization is not in the list." Classified but not in the hierarchy — or in the hierarchy but not classified. Check both. People do one. Three. "Costs will not attribute to an organization." Expenditure classification missing — or…
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In this module: Module 3 · Organization Structures
- 1What we are building
- 2The decision you cannot undo
- 3The organization object model
- 4The project unit
- 5Owning versus expenditure organizations
- 6Running the structure design workshop
- 7Four worked structures
- 8Business units and the project accounting function
- 9Creating organizations
- 10Classifying organizations
- 11Organization hierarchies
- 12Creating project units
- 13Project unit options
- 14Reference data set assignments
- 15Associating project units with business units
- 16Proving the structure works
- 17What breaks
- 18Lab briefing: Meridian Consulting
- 19Lab solution walkthrough