Planning for Demand Management
Plan the listed items before setting up Demand Management.
Demands are available in the Next Experience for Demand Management. For more information, see Next Experience for Demand Management.
The workspace provides additional value beyond the legacy experience, including Playbook, Docs, and the ability to define different governance processes using playbooks.
- New customers: Use Next Experience for Demand Management to create and manage your demands.
- Existing customers: If you already have demands in the classic UI, you can continue using it. However, we recommend moving to the Next Experience for Demand Management, as your existing demands are automatically available there.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Roles | Determine who has the demand manager [it_demand_manager] and demand user [it_demand_user] roles. |
| Portfolios | Determine how you want to group or categorize demands, and then have a user with the project manager [it_project_manager] role create portfolios based on those groupings. |
| Stakeholders | Identify individuals who have the appropriate domain knowledge to evaluate
demands related to each portfolio. Then make them stakeholders for that portfolio. |
| Assessments | Consider using assessments to facilitate the information gathering process.
Define metric categories and assessment metrics to develop and distribute assessments to the appropriate audience. |
| Bubble chart definitions | Identify metrics that are important to stakeholders, departments, and the
organization. Use these metrics to create bubble charts that visually compare demands. For example, when considering which projects to undertake many organizations compare metrics such as risk rating, return on investment, and cost. |
| Resource assignments | Consider creating resource assignments to help the organization understand the time and resource costs associated with the demand. Any resource assignment attached to the demand propagates to the
project. Resource assignments require that the Resource Management Workspace application is active. |
| Enhancement and defect requests | Determine if you need the ability to manage enhancement and defect requests as
demands. This functionality requires that the Agile Development application is active. |