Product Funding

Product Funding

The Product Funding capability supports defining financial targets for products for the organization. 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.

Definition and Business Value

Definition

This supports the setting of time-phased financial targets for products, against which planned and in-flight investments can be analyzed.

Business Value

We can define and adjust product budgets at various levels that represent the portfolio’s investment.

Business Value

We can forecast the costs and effort required to deliver each product, and the benefits and revenue that the product is anticipated to generate.

Best Practices

Align budgets to outcomes

Align funding to your business outcomes to ensure that the end-to-end delivery of your products can be managed more effectively and flexibly. This encourages greater flexibility and autonomy within your value streams, teams, and teams of teams.

Create guardrails for spending

Once you align your budget with your outcomes, create guardrails that define spending policies, guidelines, capacity, and practices across the portfolio. This ensures that the right investments are made within each budget while giving teams the freedom to weigh new opportunities against long-term strategies.

Reassess budgets often

Reassess your budget regularly to analyze investments across value streams and reallocate funds to new initiatives. Continuously monitoring your portfolio enables you to pivot toward new opportunities or away from unsatisfactory projects with greater flexibility and ease.

Budget collaboratively

Create a better-informed and effective system for distributing investments by involving stakeholders and business owners in the budgeting process. Participatory budgeting encourages leaders to share resources to achieve results within their initiative.

Use scenario planning

Scenario planning helps to forecast the cost and benefits of a given selection of product investments. Create and assess various scenarios of different product mixes to ensure the products you choose to invest in can achieve your organization’s strategic goals. For more information, see the Prioritization and Scenario Analysis capability.

Processes and Reports

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Product funding supports the ability to set financial targets (benefits and revenue) for each product. A product financial plan is created then baselined to track variances between the forecasted product benefits and revenue and actual costs. This capability supports strategic investment planning by allowing In-flight and potential investments to be analyzed against product financial targets.

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Video: Product Funding Demo

 

Financial Targets Process Steps

           

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Financial targets process flow

           

Process Step Description
Define labor costs

Enter the cost targets for labor into the outcome financial plan.

Budgets may be created at any level of the Outcome structure on the Financial Planning Detail screen then spread down to lower levels or rolled up to higher levels. Alternatively, data may be loaded using an outcome financial load, then rolled up and edited.

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Define non-labor costs

Enter the non-labor costs into the outcome financial plan. These costs should be divided into the appropriate non-labor categories.

Non-labor data is often entered manually, then spread down to lower levels or rolled up to higher levels as part of the larger budgeting process.
Define expected benefits and revenue Enter the revenue targets and benefits for launching the product. These targets and benefits can be manually entered into the outcome financial plan.
Baseline financial plan Following the input or roll-up of the financial plan budget and target data, a financial baseline for the financial plan should be taken to compare and track variances of the product financials over time.

           

           

Financial Targets Reports

How are we able to see our financial targets for benefits and costs?

OUT31 – Outcome Portfolio Revenue and Cost Analysis Analytic This report analyzes program data and summarized portfolio financial plan data, with effort represented as FTEs, days, and hours, and financials as cost, benefits, and revenue. The report uses a single version of the financial plan and a data type based on project attributes, account structure levels, or line attributes of selected accounts. You can configure the report to run against each level in the strategy structure.

OUT33 – Outcome Portfolio Revenue Prioritization Bubble

 Analytic

This report can select cost or revenue-based measures from the financial planning data to drive bubble size and visualize the outcome pipeline. You can configure the report to run against each level in the outcome structure.

OUT34 – Outcome Portfolio Risk and Reward Matrix

 Analytic This report analyzes the risk and reward balance across the outcome portfolio. You can select revenue measures for the x-axis, risk-based attributes for the y-axis, and cost-based measures for the bubble size.

How are we able to understand how changing demand impacts our financial targets?

Outcome Portfolio – Portfolio Manager – Financial Variance Column Set Tile This column set allows you to compare financial variances between an outcome's forecasted and actual costs.

OUT32 – Outcome Revenue/Cost Forecast Performance

 Analytic This report allows you to compare versions of the outcome and summarized portfolio financial plan data, with effort represented as FTEs, days, and hours, and financials as cost and revenue. A burndown chart is included for the whole portfolio and each initiative. You can configure the report to run against each level in the strategy structure.

           

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