With the start of the new year, organizations are reviewing their roadmaps and adjusting their initiatives to align to strategy. When making trade-off decisions, there are many factors to consider. One of the most critical factors to review is whether there are sufficient resources available to execute the initiative. When there are not enough resources to work on an initiative, it can lead to resource conflicts and delivery delays. This can result in wasted planning efforts and organizations being back to square one in their planning cycle, leading to further delays and confusion.
Organizations need visibility into resourcing and to incorporate that into the planning process early on to speed delivery and ensure initiatives are successfully delivered without delays.
Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) Washington and Store releases offers capabilities to help organizations align initiatives to strategy by providing visibility of resource availability during the planning process. From having a dedicated workspace for resource managers to plan and resolve resource conflicts to enterprise Agile planning, visibility of resource constraints can be resolved immediately in a single interface. Operational work is now integrated with resource assignments further providing comprehensive resource availability outlooks.
Resource management is only one decision point. Costs are another. With the new SPM integration with Source-to-Pay, organizations can have a comprehensive view of financials in demands and projects.
Organizations can create “lenses” to view the portfolio in the way that works for them when planning. To support enterprise architects (EA) who use SPM, EAs can now create a portfolio of capabilities when planning their roadmaps.
With a new resource management workspace, enterprise agile planning, lenses to support EAs, and increased financial views, planning has never been easier.
Resource Management Workspace
A dedicated homepage for resource managers to oversee multiple teams for faster conflict identification and resolution
- Approve or un-approve resource assignments based on total allocation from a single view
- Save time by creating dynamic resource boards
- Discover and address resource conflicts avoiding project delays
Enterprise Agile Planning
ServiceNow's enterprise Agile planning (EAP) solution empowers delivery organizations to embrace innovative work approaches. EAP aligns strategic plans and funding with Agile delivery and effectively expands Agile practices. This results in faster time to market, increased productivity with existing teams, and enables confident investment decisions. Features include:
- New backlog and planning board experiences enable product managers and Agile team leads to prioritize, plan, manage their work and teams.
- When using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) capabilities, use pre-defined configurations or create custom configurations to define how work item types, team level structures, and planning calendars are structured.
- Quickly define and view dependencies between various tasks or user stories within the planning board.
Migration of Resource Plans to Resource Assignments
Unlock Next Experience Resource and Financial Planning with a single-step migration tool.
- Convert Resource Plans to Resource Assignments to enable Capacity Planning and enhanced Resource Management for existing projects and other work items
- Simultaneously generate attribute-based cost plans in the Project and Planning Workspaces
- Create Resource Assignments for Operational Work to enable resource and project managers to account for all work when making capacity planning and resourcing decisions
Business Capability Lens
Enterprise Architects can now a create portfolio of business capabilities, sub-capabilities, applications, and related planning items from within the Strategic Planning Workspace or from the Enterprise Architecture Workspace to strategically manage their business applications
- Users who have both SPM Pro and APM can create a portfolio using the new Business Capability lens
- APM users can quickly access a roadmap of their Business Capability hierarchy from within the Enterprise Architecture Workspace
For more information, review the release notes, then schedule a meeting and demo with your account team, or contact us here.
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