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  1. Risks (Probability of Success and Failure)

    Project risk is one of the three types of risk that can impact the performance of projects.  It is determined by the P.Failure*Benefits.  The risks should be ratio scale estimates of the relative risk of the alternatives or projects.  If you need t...
  2. Custom Constraints in Portfolio View

    Custom Constraints added from Allocate > Project Management > CUSTOM CONTRAINTS are displayed as columns on the Portfolio View page. Below we see the Network and Project Managers custom constraints: Hovering on the total number of custom constr...
  3. March 20, 2020

    March 20, 2020 | Version 6.0.13.38923 New Features/Enhancements Resource Aligner's Time Periods:  Option to synchronize the Min and Max entered on the first period to all the subsequent periods.  This is available from Portfolio View > Time P...
  4. Allowing Pop-ups (Browsers Pop-up Blocker)

    There are some places in Comparion where a new window or tab will need to be opened.  Browsers often prevent these pop-ups from displaying unless you give permission to do so. Google Chrome By default, Google Chrome blocks pop-ups from automat...
  5. Create Evaluation Quick Help

    Quick Help is custom help set up by the Project Manager to be shown during the evaluation process.  The Project Manager can view and set up Quick Help (QH) from the QH icons found at the top right of every evaluation step.  An empty Quick Hel...
  6. Levels Of Measurement

    Not all numbers have the same meaning in terms of what operations can be legitimately performed on them.  In order for operations like addition and multiplication with numbers to be mathematically meaningful, the numbers must possess certain proper...
  7. Absolute Measurement

    Relative measurement in AHP is performed by comparing two elements, e.g., objectives or alternatives, one to another; whereas absolute measurement is performed on each element, e.g., alternatives, one at a time.  There are several ways this is done ...
  8. Why All Important Decisions are Subjective

    AHP (along with other multiple objective methods --discussed below) differs in a significant way from most/all other Management Science/Operations Research methods which focus on an "objective" function – singular.  Taking the "best" course of actio...
  9. Ideal and Distributive Synthesis: Closed and Open Systems

    Originally, AHP had only one synthesis mode – later called the "distributive" synthesis mode.  A distributive synthesis distributes priorities from the goal down through the alternatives and is analogous to dividing priorities in a pie chart, which...
  10. Importance of Hierarchical Structuring

    Humans have difficulty dealing with more than seven - plus or minus two - factors at a time.  To overcome this cognitive limitation, objectives can be structured into a hierarchy of clusters of elements.  One of the axioms of AHP is that the element...