About Program Planning

Program Planning enables organizations to efficiently coordinate the various work activities of multiple functional teams in the PLM environment. It provides enterprise-wide visibility into top-level projects and their major event dates. With Program Planning, all stakeholders involved in the successful delivery of products, from the planning office, program managers, and product managers to department heads, team leaders and team members, can plan and coordinate work across the enterprise using a structured, yet flexible, mechanism.

Roles

How you work on programs in Active Workspace depends on your role. The following are the common roles involved with program planning and the actions they typically perform:

• The program manager creates the programs, adds event dates and other program objects, assigns responsible users, and updates the program properties.
• The responsible user is assigned to a program object, such as an event, risk, subproject, or issue, and completes the work for the assigned component.
• The administrator configures program planning features, such as list of values (LOVs), event code colors, program security, data sharing between Teamcenter sites, and deep copy rules.

Where do I go from here?

The links below take you to common tasks based on the roles described above.

I'm a program manager and I want to:

• Use the program timeline to manage my programs.
• Assign resources to program objects.
• Create a new program.
• Add a deliverable to a program object.
• Add schedules to my program.
• Create program deliverable dependencies.
• Add an event to my program.
• Add risks, issues, and opportunities to my program.

I'm a user assigned to a program object and I want to:

• Modify a program deliverable's properties.
• Modify a program event.
• Replace a program deliverable revision.
• Modify a program risk, issue, or opportunity.

I'm an administrator and I want to:

• Configure program planning.
• Configure program planning lists.
• Assign event code colors.
• Define program security.
• Share program planning data between sites.
• Configure deep copy rules.

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