Next Experience for Demand Management in Portfolio Planning
Create, evaluate, and prioritize demands throughout the demand life-cycle using Next Experience for Demand Management.
Next Experience for Demand Management gives organizations and teams a structured way to capture, assess, and prioritize different types of work before committing to execution. Using Next Experience for Demand Management, demand managers can review incoming requests, assess business cases and capacity, estimate costs, evaluate risks, and decide which demands are worth moving forward. Playbooks allow teams to define different governance processes as well.
Next Experience for Demand Management comes with the Playbook, Details, and Docs pages and is available for users with the Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) Standard license.
- Consistent demand intake and evaluation process - Next Experience for Demand Management enables a structured workflow where each demand progresses through defined evaluation stages such as intake, capacity and assessment, financial assessment, and approval.
- Centralized visibility into demand information - Next Experience for Demand Management provides a single interface to view all demands and their associated details such as business cases, capacity, and financials. This feature eliminates the need to cross-reference multiple forms, modules, or applications to compile a complete picture of a demand.
- Playbook-guided demand life-cycle - Playbooks define the sequence of stages and activities that a demand must go through such as creation, planning, assessment, and approval. Each stage contains a set of prescribed activities that must be completed before the demand transitions to the next stages. Using playbooks, you can define your own processes according to your requirements.
- Consolidated data for demand prioritization - Next Experience for Demand Management provides demand details, capacity and risk assessment outputs, financial summaries, and progress indicators in a unified view. This feature helps demand managers to compare, rank, and prioritize demands based on any defined criteria of an organization.
- AI system integration through playbook activities - The AI playbook enables the association of AI systems to a demand through a playbook activity. This feature enables demand managers to associate a demand with an AI system from directly within the demand workflow.