1 | Rating Scale: You can specify your benefits and efforts on a 0-5 scale, 0-10 scale, or 0-100 scale. Pick the scale best for your needs and enter the worksheet numbers within this range. For example, if you pick the 0-10 scale, then a low benefit will be in the range of 0-2, and very high benefits will be in the range of 9-10. Similarly, rate the effort and risk as appropriate. |
2 | Num Tasks: Specify the number of tasks you want to create the Benefit-Effort plot. This information is used to reformat your worksheet and create a table for data entry. Note that any data below this table will be cleared. |
3 | X Variable: Specify if you would like to view the benefits or the efforts on the X-axis. This selection does not alter your analysis results - this is just for visualization only. |
4 | Num Groups: Specify the number of groups to display the bubble chart. If you pick 1 group, all effort and benefits are treated on par. Any project with benefits greater than effort will be assigned a priority of 1, and the other projects are assigned a priority of 2. If you specify two groups, the graph is divided into two regions: Low and High for Benefits and Low and High for Effort. All projects with greater benefits than the effort are rated a priority of 1. If the benefits and efforts are similar, it is assigned a priority 2. Else, it will be priority 3. If you specify three groups, the chart will be broken up into Low, Medium, and High, and the priority rating will range from 1-5. Priority 1 for projects where benefits are significantly higher than effort, priority 2 for benefits higher than effort, priority 3 for benefits equal to effort, priority four where benefits are worse than effort, and priority 5 for benefits significantly worse than effort. |
5 | View Example: Click on this button to open the example file. You can view the example to get an idea of how to fill out this tool, or you can use the example as a starting point and modify it to meet your project needs. |
6 | Help Button: Click on this button to view the help file for this topic. |
7 | Cancel Button: Click on this button to cancel any changes and exit this dialog box. |
8 | Create Design: If this is your first time using this template, click this button to format the worksheet template. You can also update the worksheet format any time, but remember that you may lose any data entered on this worksheet. Once you are happy with the worksheet template layout, you must enter any required data on the worksheet. When the data entered into the worksheet is complete, you can click on Analysis Setup and then Compute Outputs to generate analysis results. |
9 | Analyze Design: Click on this button to save all changes and compute the outputs for this analysis. Review the results of your analysis and make changes to your inputs if required to update analysis results. |
1 | Title: The system will automatically pick a title for your chart. However, if you want to override that with your title, you can specify a title for your chart here. Note that this input is optional. |
2 | Sub Title: The system will automatically pick a subtitle for your chart. However, if you want to override that with your subtitle, specify a subtitle for your chart here. Note that this input is optional. |
3 | X Label: The system will automatically pick a label for the x-axis. However, if you would like to override that with your label for the x-axis, you can specify a different label here. Note that this input is optional. |
4 | Y Label: The system will automatically pick a label for the y-axis. However, if you would like to override that with your label for the y-axis, you can specify a different label here. Note that this input is optional. |
5 | X Axis: The system will automatically pick a scale for the x-axis. However, if you would like to override that with your values for the x-axis, you can specify them here. The format for this input is to determine the minimum, increment, and maximum values separated by a semi-colon. For example, if you specify 10;20, the minimum x-axis scale is set at 10, and the maximum x-axis scale is set at 20. If you specify 10;2;20, then, in addition to minimum and maximum values, the x-axis increment is set at 2. Note that this input is currently disabled, and you cannot change this setting. |
6 | Y Axis: The system will automatically pick a scale for the y-axis. However, if you would like to override that with your values for the y-axis, you can specify them here. The format for this input is to determine the minimum, increment, and maximum values separated by a semi-colon. For example, if you specify 10;20, the minimum y-axis scale is set at 10, and the maximum y-axis is set at 20. If you specify 10;2;20, then, in addition to minimum and maximum values, the y-axis increment is set at 2. Note that this input is currently disabled, and you cannot change this setting. |
7 | Horizontal Lines: You can specify the values here if you want to add a few extra horizontal reference lines on top of your chart. The format for this input is numeric values separated by semi-colons. For example, if you specify 12;15, two horizontal lines are plotted at Y = 12 and Y = 15, respectively. Note that this input is currently disabled, and you cannot change this setting. |
8 | Vertical Lines: You can specify the values here to add a few extra vertical reference lines to your chart. The format for this input is numeric values separated by semi-colon. For example, if you specify 2;5, two vertical lines are plotted at X = 2 and X = 5, respectively. Note that this input is currently disabled, and you cannot change this setting. |
1 | Item: The left-hand side shows the major tabs and the items checked within each section |
2 | Status: The right-hand side shows the status of the checks. |
3 | Overall Status: The overall status of all the checks for the given analysis is shown here. The overall status check shows a green thumps-up sign if everything is okay and a red thumps-down sign if any checks have not passed. Note that you cannot proceed with generating analysis results for some analyses if the overall status is not okay. |