IT Business Management / Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM)
Overview
Planning and managing work at the portfolio level: capturing demand and ideas, running projects and portfolios, allocating people and money, and connecting strategy to execution. Formerly ITBM, now Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) - the "are we doing the right things, and can we deliver them?" layer above delivery teams.
Modules in this family
- Demand Management - capture and evaluate ideas and demand
- Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) - run projects and portfolios (PPM)
- Resource Management - plan and allocate people to work
- Strategic Planning - connect strategy, roadmaps, and funding to execution
- Application Portfolio Management (APM) - rationalize the application estate (own family)
Modules in this family
Demand Management
Demand Management captures and evaluates proposed investments or work. Ideas, catalog requests, and other intake channels may feed demands, but they remain distinct records and integrations.
Project & Portfolio Management (PPM)
Running projects and grouping them into portfolios: planning work (waterfall, agile, or hybrid), tracking progress and status, managing deliverables and milestones, and giving leadership a portfolio-level view of what's in flight and how it's going.
Resource Management
Resource Management plans and assigns capacity, roles, skills, schedules, and people to work that requires staffing, including projects and demands where those applications are used.
Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning connects goals and priorities to portfolio plans, planning items, scenarios, roadmaps, targets, and execution. Enterprise Architecture can provide shared capability and value-stream context.
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