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.
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What information is displayed in What are our project overlaps?
A filter setting is mandatory for this business question. Click the 
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 assets that are impacted by the project. These could be business capabilities, business processes, applications, components, information flows, or organizations.
- Assets showing a
symbol indicate that the asset is affected by the project selected in the Project field. - Point to the symbol to view the name of the project.
- Click the the symbol to open the editable object inspection pane.
- Double-click the symbol to open the project's content area.
- Point to the
- Assets with
, 
number symbols indicate that the asset is affected by one of the projects selected in the Overlapping Projects field. Click Show Legend to understand the numbers added to the assets. - Point to the , number symbols to view the name of the project.
- Click the , number symbols to open the editable object inspection pane.
- Double-click the symbol to open the project's content area.
- Point to the
- An 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 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 asset.
How can I edit the assets in What are our project overlaps?
If you have the relevant access permissions, you can edit the projects in this business question.
- Click the asset and click the navigate button to open its content area.
- Edit the data about the asset as needed.
- Go to the Investment Context page and scroll to the Impacting Projects view to understand all projects impacting the asset.
What data is required for What are our project overlaps?
Business question: What are our project overlaps?
Purpose: Identify the overlap of projects due to common architecture elements that are impacted by the projects.
DATA REQUIREMENTS
Capture the data necessary for the business question. Projects , applications , business capabilities , business processes , components , information flows , andorganizations must be in the repository and well documented. Try to capture as much information as possible about the projects and affected architecture classes because complete data considerably improves the results of the business question and your ability to focus on the data that is most important to you.
Improve the data and correct data quality issues. Go to the business question's Data Quality > Data Completeness. This visualization helps you to assess whether sufficient data is available to produce meaningful and reliable results for the business question.
- Go to Pending Issues to resolve data quality issues and improve the data that the business question is based on. Only the first 5000 issues are displayed.
- Go to the Data Source page to understand the underlying data relevant to the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.