What are our most important projects?
The business question What are our most important projects? provides visibility about the most important projects in the project portfolio and helps you to recognize when projects are at risk.
Get an overview of the organizations that own the most projects, the project groups with the most projects, and the business capabilities impacted by the most projects. Review a master list of all projects with a special focus on the RAG (Red, Amber, Green) status value for each project to quickly identify if management action is required for a project.
This business questions shows the following business charts:
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Business Owner: The portfolio shows organizations on the second level in the organization hierarchy based on the number of projects that the organization is responsible for. This includes the projects assigned to the subordinate organizations in the hierarchy. To understand how many projects are owned by an organization on a subordinate level in the organization hierarchy, click the
local filter button and specify the organization's name. -
Project Group: The number of projects assigned to project groups on the first level of the project group. To understand how many projects are assigned to a project group on a subordinate level in the hierarchy, click the local filter button and specify the project group's name.
- Business Capabilities: The bar chart displays business capabilities based on the number of projects that impact them directly or impact their subordinate business capabilities. Point to a bar to display a tooltip with the name of the business capability and the number of impacting projects. Click Business Capabilities to navigate to a larger view of the chart.
The Projects view is a master list showing all projects. For example, look for all projects where the RAG status is Red to understand whether the issue is due to missed deadlines, insufficient resources, or overspending. You can use all features of the data workbench to slice-and-dice your data to do the analyses you are interested in.Click here for details about how to take advantage of all functionalities of the data workbench.
Projects must be in the repository and well documented. For each project, the architecture scope and the current year costs should be documented.
For every project, the following should be defined:
- The architecture affected by the project
- The current year costs
- The indicators for the evaluation types Architecture Impact, Business Value, Project Risk and Project Monitoring.
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 projects that are used to answer the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.