Getting started with Kelloo
CHAPTER 7
Project portfolio management
Project portfolio management involves selecting and planning the right projects for your organization to work on taking into account things like availability of resources and overall organizational priorities.
In this guide we use the terminology projects to keep things simple. But you can use Kelloo to plan and schedule projects, products, agile sprints, service engagements or anything else. You can also customize the terminology and structure in Kelloo to match the language and workflow your team uses.
Section Overview
In this section you will learn:
- Creating and filtering using portfolios
- Using the cut off line to exclude projects
- How to set project priorities
- Understanding your resource capacity
Create and filter by portfolios
Edit a project then set the project details which can include data such as organization goal, risk level or status.

You can then create portfolios which are groupings of projects. You can manually set which projects are in a portfolio or include projects based on project detail fields and project custom fields. Portfolios can then be used to filter the planner.

Cut off line
In priority view, drag projects and work below the cut off line. Any work below the cut off line is excluded from portfolio calculations. So this is a good way to model a backlog of projects seeking approval or holding work on a project.

Project prioritization
Use priority view to set the priority of your projects and work. To set the priority simply drag and drop work. Highest priority work is at the top of the planner.

Over allocation warnings in priority view will show you which projects will likely run out of resource first.

Understand your organization's resource capacity
Use the demand vs capacity view and the heatmap view to understand if you have sufficient resource capacity for your projects.

Additional resources
You can import work into the planner and export the planner data.
Milestones can be used to highlight key events.
Use scenarios and capacity adjustments to model changes to schedules and resource levels.