Which demands should be realized?

The business question Which demands should be realized? looks at demand scores and helps you to assess demands and prioritize your company's activities.

Review the business value and architectural impact scores of a demand as well as the risks to the projects associated. Adjust the weighting of indicators such as cost savings or innovation to understand what the demand has to offer to the business or how it will impact the architecture. Understand which organizations are submitting demands when you make decisions about which demands to focus on and invest in.

The license package Strategic Portfolio Management is required to work with this business question.

Click the GlobalFilter global filter button and adjust the weighting of the Business Value indicators and Architectural Impact indicators. Changes to the business value indicators will also be applied to the doughnut chart Demands - Business Value

Demands - Portfolio Chart: The matrix displays demands based on the computation of the business value, architectural impact, and project risk scores of each demand. Applications that do not have any business value, architectural complexity, and project risk indicators are not evaluated.

Here's how to interpret the information:

  • The Y-axis represents the weighted score based on an demand's Business Value indicators.
  • The X-axis represents the weighted score based on a demand's Architectural Impact indicators.
  • Demands are visualized as bubbles and placed in curved segments representing the business value and architectural impact scores from very low to very high.
  • The bubble size indicates the project risk indicator associated with the demand. The larger the bubble, the more risk to the projects associated with the demand.
  • The bubble color indicates the importance of the demands specified via the demand's Priority attribute. Pink bubbles represent demands that are mandated and necessary to address a regulatory requirement.
  • Point to a demand to show a tooltip with the following information: Demand name, business value ( BV ), architectural impact ( AI ), and Project Risk.

Demands - Business Value: Shows demands based on the definition of the Business Value indicator. Point to a doughnut slice to display a tooltip with the number of demands with that business value. Double-click a doughnut slice to open a data workbench showing all demands with the business value. You can edit a demand's indicators directly in the data workbench.

Demands must be in the repository and well-documented. Demands that do not have the required business value, architecture impact, and project risk scores are not evaluated and thus not included in the portfolio chart. For each demand, the following should be defined:

  • Priority attribute
  • Cost Savings Potential indicator
  • Market Opportunity indicator
  • Strategic Value indicator
  • Complexity Reduction indicator
  • Innovation indicator
  • Standard Conformity indicator
  • Team Size indicator
  • Duration indicator
  • Technology Adoption indicator

Go to the Data Quality page and resolve the issues to ensure that the data is complete.

Go to the Data Source page to review the demands that are used to answer the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.