Design the project portfolio

Project portfolio design is essential for gaining a clear, strategic view of your organization’s transformation initiatives. Begin by cataloging all active and planned projects to understand the scope of change across your enterprise. Identify which applications, business capabilities, organizations, components, and physical servers are impacted by each project to assess dependencies, risks, and alignment with business goals.

Evaluate the cost and effectiveness of your projects to guide investment decisions. Highlight high-cost initiatives to monitor budget impact, and identify which projects deliver measurable value to the business. Use this insight to prioritize efforts, optimize resource allocation, and ensure your project portfolio drives meaningful transformation. With a well-structured design, your portfolio becomes a powerful tool for steering change and maximizing strategic outcomes.

	Coordinate and manage the time schedules of programs and projects with the business questionWhat is the status of our project portfolio?
	Track projects with an eye on their RAG status to mitigate risks early on via the business question What are our most important projects?
	Understand the most expensive projects and ensure oversight to project spending via the business question What is our CAPEX distribution?
	Review the projects impacting an asset to reduce the number of project conflicts with What are our project overlaps?
	Keep track of the dependencies that projects have with one another based on issues of time, architecture, and resources by means of the business question Where are our project dependencies?