what if you could increase your agility and improve your pace of IT innovation?

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1 SOLUTION BRIEF CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT May 2010 what if you could increase your agility and improve your pace of IT innovation? we can

2 helps IT executives to deliver the right projects faster, but in a consistent and predictable way to increase IT agility and innovation. 02

3 executive summary Challenge With the rapid growth of Agile development, IT organizations expect to increase the pace of innovation and satisfy the increasing demands of their business partners. However, Agile development is creating new organizational silos, forcing CIOs to revisit how they manage their IT portfolio. They must gain visibility across all projects to improve data quality and accurately communicate information back to the business. Solution CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT is an on-demand solution that allows IT executives, in one place, to collect all requests for new IT services and projects, make improved investment decisions, and optimize the IT portfolio based on costs, risks, value, and compliance. It helps provide that your important initiatives are delivered with the right business value, regardless of whether an Agile or non-agile project development approach is taken. Benefits CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT delivers the right projects faster, and in a consistent, predictable way. As a result, IT executives are empowered to better: Balance agility with governance Make smart IT portfolio decisions Accelerate the delivery of their commitments Achieve PPM success 03

4 CA advantage Delivered 100% over the Web, CA Clarity On Demand can help you lower your IT costs and greatly reduce infrastructure requirements. CA On Demand solutions are available anywhere, fully secure and rapidly scalable, and are supported by CA s world-class facilities and professionals. They also offer the unique ability to evolve with the needs of your organization, whether you are early stage or face a more complex environment. Next steps For more information on how CA s Portfolio Management for Agile IT solution can help your organization, visit us at ca.com/ppm. Section 1: Challenge Increase IT innovation IT executives are under pressure to deliver IT services at an increased pace of innovation to satisfy the demanding needs of their business partners. To achieve this, IT is using Agile development methodologies to increase the rate of innovation; however, this can also create silos and lead to a lack of visibility across the entire IT portfolio. A single view across the portfolio is key in delivering IT initiatives to market faster and to respond to changing customer needs as they arise. Improve IT portfolio decision-making IT executives need to be empowered to select the most important initiatives for IT to undertake. This is a challenge when data for decision-making comes from multiple sources and systems. It often leads to an inability to quickly understand if the right resources are available to take on new work. Multiple sources of information also impede the ability to quickly reevaluate the portfolio as business priorities change. Without the right information, IT executives lack the confidence to consistently make the right investment decisions. Deliver it initiatives on time, on budget IT is under constant pressure to deliver IT initiatives both on time and on budget. Poor project planning and an inability to optimize resources throughout the project life cycle often result in inefficient delivery. To overcome these challenges, IT executives need timely information about the status of their portfolio. This real-time view allows IT to balance priorities and deliver on the expectations of the business. Reduce the cost of managing your portfolio Gaining complete visibility across the portfolio can become a costly venture. Most IT executives realize the need for a PPM solution to manage the challenges noted above; however, many are hesitant to implement due to the perception that PPM solutions are complex, costly, and hard to adopt. To overcome this challenge, IT leaders must select a vendor and an on-demand solution that will meet their needs today and in the future, and at the lowest cost. 04

5 Section 2: Solution CA Portfolio Management for Agile it CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT is an on-demand service designed to minimize the inherent cost and risk of software implementation, improve end-user adoption, and establish a solid foundation from which to grow your PPM maturity. Figure A A comprehensive project and portfolio management solution CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT delivers robust PPM and agile planning capabilities to improve agility and portfolio decision-making. Agile Planning Agile planning capabilities give enterprise-level visibility over any type of development project (both Agile and non-agile). Standard Agile planning capabilities, including Agile sprint planning, Agile burn-down velocity charts, and an Agile virtual wall, available within the CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT solution, improve IT efficiencies and support innovation growth across the organization. IT portfolio management The CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT solution is a real-time planning and analysis toolkit that provides insight into the total cost of providing a service and enables a one-to-one comparison across 05

6 all IT investments. It aggregates all of the components of a service offering assets, applications, people, projects, and ongoing support. It also includes integrated scorecards to drive portfolio planning and analysis by service. Resource management Capacity planning, achieving an equitable balance between resource capacity and project demand, is a significant issue in today s business environment as companies try to achieve the highest return on investment from their project portfolios. CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT helps plan and manage resource capacity and balances it against work demand, a required approach for any project and resource management strategy. Reporting & dashboards CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT reporting and metrics help provide the information organizations need to make fact-based decisions. Numerous out-of-the-box reports help collect information on investments, resources, project statuses, and profitability. This critical business information is connected to red, yellow, and green stoplight reports for quick visual alerts based on a project or program s risk, budget, or status and can then be easily drilled into for further detail. Demand management CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT helps give executives a holistic view of all IT demand. It also links to resources and financial information, providing comprehensive insight into staff allocation on both project- and service-oriented work, resulting in more accurately forecasted resource requirements and better cost-tracking. Project management Projects are the foundation for both programs and portfolios and are the delivery vehicles for the execution of almost any strategy. A project badly planned or estimated can adversely affect results, deliverables, organizational costs, credibility with customers, and employee morale. CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT provides a rich set of functionality to help provide that corporate best practices and methodologies are adhered to, optimal plans are produced, communication barriers are eliminated, and projects are executed with precision. IT financial management CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT gives you comprehensive IT financial planning capabilities to gain a detailed view of total cost and effort. It also provides the essential financial information for both bottom-up budgeting and forecasting, and top-down, drill-down analysis from the IT portfolio level. Project lifecycle management Project lifecycle management capabilities guide project managers through each step of the project, so that only the most critical information is presented at the right time. Views are configured based upon lifecycle stages to keep the user focused on the relevant fields and actions needed to complete the task at hand. 06

7 Cost and time management Wherever project transactions originate, CA Portfolio Management can capture costs and account for them. Sophisticated categorization functionality allows segregation of capitalized expenditures from expenses for appropriate financial reporting and compliance. Workflow CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT allows all business processes to be automated and managed as a unified whole, making it easier to optimize these processes and standardize them across the organization. As a result, business processes become more automated, adaptable, and reusable. Section 3: Benefits CA Portfolio Management enables CIOs to decide with greater confidence, deliver with improved agility, and deploy on demand. In addition, there are four key benefits IT leaders gain: Balance agility with governance Improve the pace of IT innovation while providing consistency across the portfolio. CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT helps you achieve this by expanding the use of Agile development across the enterprise, improving the speed of IT project delivery and allowing you to quickly assess and respond to the impact of changes to the portfolio. Make smart IT portfolio decisions Strengthen results using fact-based decision-making across the entire IT portfolio. CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT helps you achieve this by providing a single view into decision-making, visual indicators and scorecards to determine your ability to support new initiatives, and the ability to prioritize and assign resources to the right initiatives. Accelerate the delivery of your commitments Ensure IT projects and services delivered exceed the expectations of the business. CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT helps you achieve this by enabling you to view critical and timely portfolio information across all projects while balancing resources assigned to both project and non-project work. Achieve PPM success Implement PPM on-demand, gain rapid end-user adoption, and reduce total cost of ownership. Section 4: CA advantage Delivered 100% over the Web, CA Clarity On Demand can help you lower your IT costs and greatly reduce infrastructure requirements. CA On Demand solutions are available anywhere, fully secure and rapidly scalable, and are supported by CA s world-class facilities and professionals. They also offer the unique ability to evolve with the needs of your organization, whether you are early stage or face a more complex environment. CA also has an experienced global services and support organization to help you realize your rapid value with your CA Clarity PPM deployment. 07

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