Asking “What If?”: Bubble Chart Pro V. 6 (Preview 3)

Being able to understand and predict the impact of change in your project portfolio and your portfolio model is essential in building a robust project portfolio model. In Bubble Chart Pro Version 6, you’ll be able to use new sensitivity charts to quickly see how changes in your projects or portfolio model can change your project prioritization. Sensitivity charts allow you to answer many “what if?” questions about your project portfolio, and to understand quickly which attributes have the most impact on your projects. The Bubble Chart Pro Sensitivity Analysis feature can model both the impact of a change in an attribute value, such as cost, as well as the impact of changing an attribute weight in the SMART portfolio model.

Let’s look at testing the sensitivity of a Cost attribute. The goal of attribute sensitivity test ing is to model what happens when one attribute changes while all the other attributes are held constant. The Sensitivity Chart for the Cost attribute above shows that as the costs go up, the overall value score of each project goes down. You can use this chart to see what happens when an individual project’s costs change because it may become more or less valuable than other projects. With the new risk bars that we’re introducing in Bubble Chart Pro Version 6, you will be able to see the uncertainty in each project and how it compares to other projects in your project portfolio as shown in the chart below. You can toggle the display of these bars on and off in the chart preference form.