Product Portfolio and Pipeline Planning
Product Portfolio and Pipeline Planning
The Product Portfolio and Pipeline Planning capability’s enablers include Business Requests, Intake, and Gated Process Automation (Stage-Gate). Each capability within the Planview Capability Framework has a distinct set of features and functionality, business processes, best practices, and analytics and reports that deliver value to customers in the form of specific business outcomes.=
Product Portfolio and Pipeline Planning Business Outcomes
Business Requests
- We have a single repository to collect requests from the business, which is available to all stakeholders in the organization.
- We have a structured process to categorize, assess, and carry out sizing estimation of these requests before taking them for consideration as new investments.
Intake
- We can define how products will be delivered through the programs and projects that create, enhance and support them.
- We have a consistent intake process for all new investments.
- We can describe and categorize investments based on our organizational data model and attribute.
- We have a single repository for all investments, which includes new potential (not yet approved), approved, active, and completed programs and projects.
Gated Process Automation (Stage-Gate)
- We can ensure that the appropriate gated process is applied to products, programs, and projects based on specific criteria.
- We can ensure that the approval and review actions have been assigned to the appropriate user based on specific criteria.
- We can drive improved delivery of investments by ensuring detailed information has been completed before a project proceeds to the next stage/phase in the delivery process.
- We can update existing processes based on feedback to increase efficiency and deliver products faster.
Product Portfolio and Pipeline Planning Processes
Product portfolio and pipeline planning supports a clearly defined process to initiate business requests and collect relevant categorization and scoring information and initial financial data for business requests, projects, and programs that are initiated. A consistent intake process is created for new investments by ensuring the appropriate gated process is applied to projects, programs, and products, enabling accurate review and approval actions on these requests at each decision stage.
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