The typical Project Management Bridge customer is an organization that has been using Primavera Portfolio Management to manage its investments. Using the Project Management Bridge, it is possible to estimate costs and schedule for projects and candidate projects from within PPM, publish them to the Project Management System Server, and subsequently track their progress. The portfolio managers can also establish target dates and phases for the project manager.
In the Project Management System Server, the project manager fills in detailed project level information such as the resources, costs, and estimated time for the various phases of the project. At some later date which can be pre-arranged or based on a communication between the two managers, the portfolio manager updates Primavera Portfolio Management with the latest data.
At this stage, the portfolio manager can approve or reject the project based on the detailed project plan supplied by the project manager. The cost and work details coming from the project plan have the advantage of relying on exact schedule and resource availability considerations. The portfolio manager can now select in which project to invest based on the results of detailed project planning.
If the project is approved, the portfolio manager can make some notations and again publish the project to the Project Management System Server. The portfolio manager can monitor the project’s progress through periodic updates and by comparing actual values to saved baseline values.