- Through growth, both organic and acquisition, you have a significant footprint of projects and applications.
- Projects and applications have little in common with one another, all with their own history and pedigree.
- You need to look across your portfolio of applications and projects to see if they will collectively help the organization achieve its goals.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Stakeholders don’t care about the minutia and activities involved in project and application portfolio management.
- Timely delivery of effective and important applications that deliver value throughout their life are the most important factors driving business satisfaction with IT.
Impact and Result
- Define an organizing principle that will structure your projects and applications in a way that matters to your stakeholders.
- Bridge application and project portfolio data using the organizing principle that matters to communicate with stakeholders across the organization.
- Create a dashboard that brings together the benefits of both project and application portfolio management to improve visibility and decision making.
Integrate Portfolios to Create Exceptional Customer Value Research & Tools
Start here – read the Executive Brief
Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should integrate your application and project portfolios, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the three ways we can support you in completing this project.Besides the small introduction, subscribers and consulting clients within this management domain have access to:
- Integrate Portfolios to Create Exceptional Customer Value – Phases 1-3
1. Define the principle that organizes your portfolios, objectives, and stakeholders
To bring your portfolios together, you need to start with learning about your objectives, principles, and stakeholders.
- Integrate Portfolios to Create Exceptional Customer Value – Phase 1: Define the Principle That Organizes Your Portfolios, Objectives, and Stakeholders
- Integrated Portfolio Dashboard Tool
- Integrated Portfolio Dashboard Tool – Example
2. Take stock of what brings you closer to your goals
Get a deeper understanding of what makes up your organizing principle before learning about your applications and projects that are aligned with your principles.
- Integrate Portfolios to Create Exceptional Customer Value – Phase 2: Take Stock of What Brings You Closer to Your Goals
3. Bring it all together
Bound by your organizing principles, bring your projects and applications together under a single dashboard. Once defined, determine the rollout and communication plan that suits your organization.
- Integrate Portfolios to Create Exceptional Customer Value – Phase 3: Bring It All Together
- Integrated Portfolio Communication and Roadmap Plan
- Integrated Portfolio Communication and Roadmap Plan Example
Workshop: Integrate Portfolios to Create Exceptional Customer Value
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
1 Looking at Your Principles
The Purpose
Determine your organizational objectives and organizing principle.
Key Benefits Achieved
A clear understanding of where you need to go as an organization.
A clear way to enable all parts of your portfolio to come together.
Activities
1.1 Determine your organization’s objectives.
1.2 Determine your key stakeholders.
1.3 Define your organizing principle.
1.4 Decompose your organizing principle into its core components.
Outputs
Determined organizing principle for your applications and projects
2 Understanding Your Applications
The Purpose
Get a clear view of the applications that contribute to your organization’s objectives.
Key Benefits Achieved
A key element of IT value delivery is its applications. Gaining awareness allows you to evaluate if the right value is being provided.
Activities
2.1 Determine your complete list of applications.
2.2 Determine the health of your applications.
2.3 Link your applications to the organization’s core components.
Outputs
List of applications
Application list with health statistics filled in
List of applications with health metrics bound to the organization’s core components
3 Understanding Your Projects
The Purpose
Get a clear view of your project portfolio and how it relates to your applications and their organizing principle.
Key Benefits Achieved
An understanding of your project portfolio.
Activities
3.1 List all in-flight projects and vital health statistics.
3.2 Map out the key programs and projects in your portfolio to the application’s core components.
Outputs
List of projects
List of projects mapped to applications they impact
4 Rolling Out the New Dashboard
The Purpose
Bring together your application and project portfolios in a new, easy-to-use dashboard with a full rollout plan.
Key Benefits Achieved
Dashboard available for use
Roadmap and communication plan to make dashboard implementable and tangible
Activities
4.1 Test the dashboard.
4.2 Define your refresh cadence.
4.3 Plan your implementation.
4.4 Develop your communication plan.
Outputs
Validated dashboards