What are our project overlaps?

The business question What are our project overlaps? helps you to quickly identify the stakeholders impacted by an architectural change. Review the projects impacting an IT asset and establish clear objectives for project delivery in order to minimize risk and reduce the number of project conflicts.

The license package IT Transformation Server - Enterprise or Strategic Portfolio Management is required to work with this business question.

A filter setting is mandatory for this business question. Click the Filter local filter button and select a project in the Project field.

Here's how to interpret the information:

  • The lanes indicate the object class of the IT assets that are impacted by the project. These could be business capabilities, business processes, applications, components, information flows, or organizations.
  • IT assets showing a ProjectOverlap symbol indicate that the IT asset is affected by the project selected in the Project field.
  • IT assets with number symbols indicate that the IT asset is affected by one of the projects selected in the Overlapping Projects field. Click Show Legend to understand the numbers added to the IT assets.
  • An IT asset highlighted red is affected by multiple projects and requires attention. To understand more about the project overlaps, click the IT asset in the matrix and click the Navigate navigate button to open the content area. Go to the Investment Context page and scroll to the Impacting Projects view to understand all projects impacting the IT asset.

The following data is required about projects in order to have meaningful results:

  • Every project should have the IT assets defined that are impacted by the project. These could be business capabilities, business processes, applications, components, information flows, or organizations. This can be done in the project content area > Architecture Scope > Affected Architecture view.
  • Each IT asset that is impacted by a project should include information about the changes that are planned for the IT asset. In the Affected Architecture view, the edit button opens an editor where you can specify the planned change to the IT asset in the Change Category and Change Comment fields. Change categories include New, Updating, Changing, or Retiring.

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 and the impacted IT assets that are used to answer the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.