Project Portfolio Management or Strategic Portfolio Management - San Diego Features

Vinayak Belgaon · ‎02-04-2022

Strategic Portfolio Management or Project Portfolio Management. The change in name suggests the Alignment of work along with business goals to deliver products and services in a way that supports strategic priorities. In this article I have noted some of the enhancements and feature that I like are actually solving some of the issues we faced previously..

Next experience ServiceNow has Modernized visual design, the look, feel and user accessibility of all Web application on the Now Platform. A simplified, unified navigation that brings together all platform apps into one experience, to increase productivity

Alignment Planner Workspace Version 3.1.0 - February 2022

Scale and plan epics across the Enterprise | Align applications with business goals and priorities

The version 3.1.0 now includes the guided setup for configuring APW.
We now have the Ability to import work items (epics) from Azure Devops into APW, The necessary integration app is installed and configured to support these imports.
Support scrum and SAFe epics using single table in APW. Out of the box Planning hierarchy template for SAFe
Next experience modern UI for Alignment Planner Workspace and roadmap component. This would drive the visibility and insight into progress toward important milestones at both the enterprise and each work item level, giving the detail milestone and roadmap view with the new color grouping

Project Workspace Planning

Plan and manage your projects with the new and improved project workspace

Next Experience Enhanced planning and tracking to maximize outcome to define, plan, and manage team work.
Track and monitor project tasks Enhance the workspace usability, task date adjustment, drag & drop, copy & paste and bulk editing
Project Workspace with search and all projects and my projects filter, also includes all teamspace project cards
Performance enhancement supporting 3000 tasks

Resource Management - Allocation Workbench

Efficiently manage resources to implement strategy faster

Enhanced Loading Performance for Over 50 Users
Enhanced Date, Jump to Start Date of Resource Plan , advance Filtering by Role and Group
Bulk Fill Planned Quickly copy planned hours in bulk within a resource plan
Pull the latest capacity data without having to leave the Allocation Workbench

Digital Portfolio Management

Lifecycle Management: Plan, Build, Run, Optimize

Unified workspace for Service and Business applications to Holistically manage through their full lifecycle
Personal portfolios, a new concept, which allows solution owners to collect services, offerings, business apps and other items from across different portfolios or locations and organize one folder for themselves to see
Each service or app detail page is structured around lifecycle management. You can see this PLAN, BUILD, RUN structure throughout to organize information from SPM & ITSM

Financial Management

Improve confidence in cost plan metrics

Actual costs that are not associated to a cost plan are automatically added to a system generated cost plan (Orphaned expenses have been eliminated) to reconcile with the Financial Summary cards. CapEx and Opex buckets are created with the project number prepended
Cost plan breakdown ‘actual costs’ are made read-only ‘Entered costs’ can still be provided manually
Additional diagnostics to identify duplicate task type breakdowns of planned cost, budget, and actuals

Let me know your feedback and do share your thoughts on the features you liked.. If you have any other article links do share below in the comments. I haven't included the APM and CSDM in this article but can be found in the attachment.

Thanks to @Scott Wallace for sharing the PPT, I have attached it to this article as well.

Links for Strategic Portfolio Management San Diego Release Documents is here

Anil Lande · ‎02-09-2022

Very informative and helpful! Thanks for sharing.