To create a PV-2 Project Timelines:

When you open a PV-2 Project Timelines, Modeler can generate it as HTML for viewing in your Internet browser, or generate it as a spreadsheet for viewing in Microsoft Excel. To specify how matrices and tables are opened for a model: in the Packages pane, right-click the Model, point to Tools > Options, click Matrix/Table Generation Format, and then select HyperTextMarkupLanguage_HTML or Excel_XLS.

Each time you open a PV-2 Project Timelines, Modeler generates the product using the latest data from the model.

On a PV-2 Project Timelines:

A milestone can be a Project Milestone, Deployed Milestone, Increment Milestone, No Longer Used Milestone or Retirement Milestone element.

To specify the date range that is covered by the PV-2 Project Timelines, specify the start date or end date: right-click the PV-2 Project Timelines, point to Set, click Start Date or End Date, and from the Date/Time Editor dialog set the required date and time. If no date range is specified for the PV-2 Project Timelines, the date range is derived from the date ranges of the Project elements that are displayed.

To specify the scale of the lifeline on the PV-2 Project Timelines: right-click the PV-2 Project Timelines, point to Set, click Lifeline Scale, and then from the Value Selector dialog select Days, Weeks, Months or Years.

To show or hide Milestone Sequence and Project Sequence elements: right-click the AcV-2, point to Set, click Show Sequences, and then from the Value Selector dialog select TRUE or FALSE.

By default, the PV-2 Project Timelines searches for Project elements that are contained within the Architectural Description or Service Description that owns the PV-2 Project Timelines.

To search for Project elements from other Architectural Description and Service Description packages: right-click the PV-2 Project Timelines, point to Links, and then click Analyzed Packages. From the Links Editor, select the Architectural Description and Service Description packages from which you want to search for Project elements.

An PV-2 Project Timelines can show the following elements.

A Project element's Deployed Milestone elements are shown on the Project lifeline as segmented circles. The name and date of the Deployed Milestone are shown below the segmented circle.

The sections of the Deployed Milestone represent the Project Theme elements of the Deployed Milestone and the values that are set for those Project Theme elements.

A Project element's Increment Milestone elements are shown on the Project lifeline as segmented circles. The name and date of the Increment Milestone are shown below the segmented circle.

The sections of the Increment Milestone represent the Project Theme elements of the Increment Milestone and the values that are set for those Project Theme elements.

A Milestone Sequence is shown as a blue arrow that links the predecessor milestone to the successor milestone.

A Project element's No Longer Used Milestone elements are shown on the Project lifeline as segmented circles. The name and date of the No Longer Used Milestone are shown below the segmented circle.

The sections of the No Longer Used Milestone represent the Project Theme elements of the No Longer Used Milestone and the values that are set for those Project Theme elements.

For each Project found in the Analyzed Packages, the PV-2 Project Timelines displays a lifeline that shows its milestones.

The name of the Project element's Project Type is shown below the Project. A PV-2 Project Timelines shows a key for each Project Type that is shown.

A Project element's Project Milestone elements are shown on the Project lifeline as segmented circles. The name and date of the Project Milestone are shown below the segmented circle.

The sections of the Project Milestone represent the Project Theme elements of the Project Milestone and the values that are set for those Project Theme elements.

A Project Sequence is shown as a red arrow that links the predecessor Project lifeline to the successor Project lifeline.

A Project Theme is shown as a section of a milestone.

The key shows which Project Theme is represented by each section of the milestone.

The color of the section shows which value (Status Indicator Literal) has been set for the Project Theme. A striped section means that no value has been set.

A key is shown for each Project Type that is used as the type of a shown Project.

The key shows which Project Theme is represented by each milestone section, and which Status Indicator Literal is represented by each milestone section color.

A Project element's Retirement Milestone elements are shown on the Project lifeline as segmented circles. The name and date of the Retirement Milestone are shown below the segmented circle.

The sections of the Retirement Milestone represent the Project Theme elements of the Retirement Milestone and the values that are set for those Project Theme elements.

When a Status Indicator Literal has been selected as the value of a Project Theme, the color of the milestone section indicates which Status Indicator Literal has been set.

In the preceding example you can see that the top-right section of the apm2 milestone represents Project Theme1 and its yellow color shows that its value has been set to Status Indicator Literal2.

In this example we create a Project that has two milestones, and we set a project theme value for the second milestone.

We start by creating Status Indicators1, which can be used as a type for the Project Theme elements we create. For Status Indicators1 we create Status Indicator Literal1 that is red, and Status Indicator Literal2 that is yellow.

On a PV-3 Project Type Definition we create the following elements:

On a PV-3 Actual Project Definition we create the following elements:

Note that in the preceding example we have hidden the slot values and full type names through the view options.

We now want to set the value of Project Theme2 for APM2: we right-click APM2, point to Set, and then click Values. From the Instance Editor dialog, we set Project Theme2 to Status Indicator Literal2.

We create the PV-2 Project Timelines and set its start date to 2014-12-01 and its end date to 2015-06-01. We now open the PV-2 Project Timelines.

From the PV-2 Project Timelines, you can see the following:

The following sections provide information about how a PV-2 Project Timelines is used in the model.