PV-2 Project timelines (UPDM - DoDAF aliases)
Creation
To create a PV-2 Project Timelines:
Right-click the Architectural Description or Service Description that is to own the PV-2 Project Timelines, point to New, point to Diagram, point to DoDAF, and then click 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.
Purpose
On a PV-2 Project Timelines:
View Project elements and their milestones on a time line.
For each milestone, view its date and the values set for its Project Theme elements.
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.
Analyzed Packages
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.
Diagrams Elements
An PV-2 Project Timelines can show the following elements.
Deployed Milestone
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.
Increment Milestone
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.
Milestone Sequence
A Milestone Sequence is shown as a blue arrow that links the predecessor milestone to the successor milestone.
No Longer Used 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.
Project
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.
Project Milestone
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.
Project Sequence
A Project Sequence is shown as a red arrow that links the predecessor Project lifeline to the successor Project lifeline.
Project Theme
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.
Project Type
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.
Retirement Milestone
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.
Status Indicator Literal
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.
Example
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:
Project Type1 and Project Milestone Type1, connected through a Project Milestone Role that is created using a composite Association.
On Project Milestone Type1 we create Project Theme1 and Project Theme2, both of which use Status Indicators1 as their type.
On a PV-3 Actual Project Definition we create the following elements:
Project1 that uses Project Type1 as its type. We set its start date to 2014-12-01 and we set its end date to 2015-6-1
A Project Milestone named APM1 that uses Project Milestone Type1 as its type. We set its date to 2015-01-01.
A Project Milestone named APM2 that uses Project Milestone Type1 as its type. We set its date to 2015-04-01.
We link Project1 to the Project Milestone elements APM1 and APM2 using the Link button.
We create a Milestone Sequence from APM1 and APM2.
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:
Project1 has a start date of 2014-12-01 and an end date of 2015-06-01.
Project1 has two Project Milestone elements named APM1 and APM2. The blue arrow shows that they are connected through a Milestone Sequence.
APM1 has a date to 2015-01-01 and does not have any values set for its Project Theme elements.
APM2 has a date to 2015-04-01 and has its Project Theme2 set to Status Indicator Literal2.
The following sections provide information about how a PV-2 Project Timelines is used in the model.
Create a PV-2 Project Timelines from
Creates or shows these UPDM elements