Scale Capacity with negative numbers is not working in Portfolio PPM

Products

• Clarity PPM On Premise

Issue/Introduction

How do you scale capacity down on the portfolio targets?

Steps to reproduce

• Add Role – Filter by role name. Select Add
• Select Role check box from Target screen
• Select Populate capacity
• Add OBS Filters – will show the capacity per period.
  Select role and Add – Capacity populates per mth on Targets screen
• Adjust the Overall distributed Target to reflect the total FTE minus the roles.
• Save

Scaling capacity:

• Select the role checkbox -> Scale Capacity
• Add Scaling Capacity: Enter 10 then Apply to adjust numbers 10% up
• adding -10 does not seem to do anything

  

Environment

Release : 15.8.1

Component : CA PPM PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

Cause

The portfolio targets work differently in scaling than when scaling on a project.

On the project you can enter a negative percent to scale down.  However portfolio capacity works differently.

Resolution

The portfolio targets scale capacity % scales by the percent you enter in the field.

if you want to scale capacity up you would put in a number greater than 100%.

To scale capacity down you would put in a number lower than 100%.

For example.  If the current distributed target is showing at 10 and you want to reduce the capacity to be 10% of that is showing you would enter 10 in the scale capacity and the target would update to show 1 instead of 10 (10% of 10).

If you want to reduce capacity by 50% you would enter 50% and the target would updated to 5 (50% of 10)

If you want to increase capacity by 50% you would enter 150% and the target would change to 15.  (150% of 10)