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Getting started with Planview Connection Graph

What is Planview Connection Graph?

Planview Connection Graph is an enterprise platform visualization that displays the invisible network of relationships that connect your strategy, OKRs, portfolios, projects, teams, and resources across your entire organization. Rather than forcing you to piece together fragments of information from multiple disconnected tools, Connection Graph provides a unified, interactive view of how every element of your work ecosystem connects. It reveals hidden dependencies, critical bottlenecks, and strategic alignment gaps that traditional tools simply cannot see. Powered by AI-driven insights, it transforms your enterprise from reactive crisis management into proactive, data-driven optimization by identifying risks and opportunities before they cascade into costly failures.

NOTE

Planview Connection Graph requires a subscription to Planview Anvi and will be enabled automatically for Anvi-subscribed customers the week of December 15, 2025.

What value does Connection Graph provide to my organization?

Connection Graph delivers three fundamental business outcomes that directly impact your bottom line and strategic execution capability:

Prevention of million-dollar cascading failures
Every enterprise experiences cascading failures, which are seemingly minor dependencies that quietly become major program delays that can cost as much as $10M+ each. Most organizations experience three to four major cascading failures annually. Connection Graph identifies the hidden bottlenecks, resource conflicts, and single points of failure, which enables proactive intervention to prevent delays from rippling through your strategic initiatives. By visualizing enterprise-wide dependencies that span business units and systems, Connection Graph shows you exactly how a delayed deliverable in one area will impact connected work streams, so that you can act to prevent the failure entirely.
Transformation from reactive to proactive management

Today, most teams spend 40% or more of their time in reactive mode, chasing down dependencies, resolving resource conflicts, and explaining why strategic objectives are off track. Connection Graph eliminates this firefighting by providing visibility into what's about to go wrong so it can be prevented. Instead of waiting for problems to be raised in status meetings or executive reviews, your leadership team can anticipate issues weeks in advance, enabling strategic resource reallocation and timeline adjustments that keep initiatives on track. This shift from reactive to proactive management improves decision velocity, reduces coordination overhead, and ensures that your strategic investments actually deliver their intended outcomes.
Optimization of capital and resource efficiency

Connection Graph reveals that 40% of strategic investments typically have no clear path to outcomes, which can result in massive waste and misalignment. By visualizing how investments flow from budget allocation through execution to business outcomes, Connection Graph helps you identify opportunities to reallocate resources from low-impact work to high-impact initiatives, concentrate specialized skills on strategic priorities, and eliminate duplicated or conflicting efforts. The result is a measurable improvement in capital efficiency and resource utilization and a reduction in waste and team burnout from over-allocation.

Best practices for getting started with Connection Graph

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Before users can access and use Connection Graph, there is some setup that must be performed. For more information, see Setting up Connection Graph.

For information about accessing and using Connection Graph, see Working with Connection Graph.

Start with your biggest visibility challenge

Rather than trying to visualize your entire enterprise at once, identify the single biggest pain point where hidden dependencies or cascading failures have cost you the most. Perhaps it's a strategic portfolio where objectives are regularly missed due to unclear execution, a complex program with multiple interdependent projects, or a critical resource who is perpetually overallocated. Starting here gives you an immediate recognition of the challenges and validates the value before expanding usage.

Focus on actionable insights, not just visualization

Connection Graph is most powerful when you use it to drive specific actions. Don't simply explore the graph; identify a concrete question you need answered, such as "What's blocking our Q4 deliverable?" or "Which resources are causing bottlenecks across our strategic initiatives?". Use the right-click menu to access AI insights to surface the specific issues, and then immediately access your source systems (Planview Portfolios, AgilePlace, OKRs) to take action. This workflow ensures every analysis translates into decision-making.

Establish clear ownership and update discipline

Connection Graph's intelligence is only as good as the data feeding it. Ensure your teams understand that accurate work hierarchy, resource assignments, and dependency relationships in Planview Portfolios and AgilePlace directly enable better insights in Connection Graph. Establish data governance practices where portfolio managers and project leaders regularly review and update their work relationships, enabling the graph to reflect reality.

Integrate into regular decision workflows

Rather than treating Connection Graph as a separate tool that you consult occasionally, integrate it into your existing cadences. Access it before portfolio reviews to identify at-risk initiatives, use it during resource planning to visualize allocation conflicts, reference it in team stand-up meetings when cards are blocked, or present it in executive briefings to demonstrate strategic alignment. Consistent usage builds organizational muscle memory and maximizes impact.

Start with cross-team dependencies, then expand

Begin by using Connection Graph to identify dependencies that go across team or business unit boundaries;. These are the most risky dependencies because they're the most invisible in traditional tools. Once your organization sees value in surfacing these hidden risks, expand to analyzing the dependencies within teams, resource optimization opportunities, and strategic alignment verification.

Leverage AI insights as your starting point

Don't try to manually interpret the graph – use the right-click AI insight menu as your discovery tool. Questions such as "What's at risk for this project?", "Where are the bottlenecks?", and "How does this impact any OKRs?" are designed to deliver the intelligence you need. Let AI guide your exploration, then dive deeper into specific nodes and connections.