IT portfolio management: extending PPM to runtime
Project portfolio management (PPM) has helped IT organizations impose formal financial discipline over software development, supporting systematic processes for determining whether, when and how much to invest in development projects. However, as traditionally practiced, the systematic portfolio management over projects has addressed only the first half of the lifecycle. Yet, there is no reason why the financial portfolio management disciplines cannot be extended from the project to the operational phase of the application lifecycle. With the goal of tracking the health of software from cradle to grave, there are several different paths that IT organizations can take towards applying portfolio management to the full lifecycle. This report defines those paths and compares how leading PPM solutions currently support the tracking of the health of an application – or the IT service to which it maps – from development through production.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
IN A NUTSHELL
PPM APPLIED TO THE WHOLE
TRADITIONAL PPM SOLVES ONLY HALF THE PROBLEM
THE GOAL SHOULD BE TO MANAGE IT, NOT JUST PROJECT PORTFOLIOS
NOT JUST A MATTER OF CONNECTING ABSTRACT DOTS
IT IS STILL EARLY IN THE GAME
VENDOR ANALYSIS
BMC
CA
COMPUWARE
HP
IBM
PLANVIEW
IN A NUTSHELL
PPM APPLIED TO THE WHOLE
TRADITIONAL PPM SOLVES ONLY HALF THE PROBLEM
THE GOAL SHOULD BE TO MANAGE IT, NOT JUST PROJECT PORTFOLIOS
NOT JUST A MATTER OF CONNECTING ABSTRACT DOTS
IT IS STILL EARLY IN THE GAME
VENDOR ANALYSIS
BMC
CA
COMPUWARE
HP
IBM
PLANVIEW
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Initial application portfolio management concept: extend PPM to the entire application and IT service lifecycle
Figure 2: Paths to IT portfolio management
Figure 1: Initial application portfolio management concept: extend PPM to the entire application and IT service lifecycle
Figure 2: Paths to IT portfolio management