Improvements

Revisions have been made to the specification of performance measures for strategic themes and the analysis of business question What is our strategic progress? These enhancements provide a clearer view of progress toward strategic targets, as well as the execution status of strategy-related programs and projects. Performance measurement has been strengthened through refined and more expressive measure types.

Enhanced measure types to capture performance measurements. A new Direction attribute has been introduced for measure types to clarify how a measure’s rating should be interpreted in relation to the performance of a strategic theme. The available values Lower Is Better or Higher Is Better can be selected in the Measure Types editor as well as in the Objectives and Key Results view.

Streamlined data workbench to capture measure types. To further simplify data management, the data workbench for defining measure types has been streamlined. A new data workbench is now available in the Objectives and Key Results view within the content area of a strategic theme. This workbench enables efficient specification of measure types, including their unit of measurement and measure type category. The new Direction column is fully integrated into this workbench.

Improved insights to target achievement in What is our strategic progress? The nested matrix report has been enhanced with new indicators on strategic theme performance measures to provide clearer visibility into how well strategic targets are being achieved. The following may be visible on a matrix cell for a performance measure:

• A Rating Target indicator displays a green checkmark when a performance target is met and a red X when it is not. A tooltip provides additional context by showing the most recent rating along with the previous rating.
• A Rating Trend indicator visualizes whether the performance rating trend is improving, stable, or declining. Its tooltip displays the latest rating with the date of the most recent update, as well as the previous rating and its date.
• A Gap indicator highlights whether the gap between the current performance rating and the target is increasing or decreasing. The tooltip explains how the gap between rated and target values is measured and whether it is widening or narrowing.
• For deeper analysis, users can double-click any matrix cell for a performance measure to open a line chart. This chart visualizes the rated performance over time alongside the target performance over time for the selected strategic theme.

Improved transparency of program and project completion in What is our strategic progress? Matrix cells representing programs and projects contributing to a strategic theme have been enhanced to provide deeper visibility into completion status. The following may be visible on a matrix cell for programs and projects.

• Matrix cells for programs now display a dedicated Program icon along with a % Complete indicator that reflects the overall completion status of the program. When projects are defined for a program, a Project icon is also shown. Double-clicking this icon opens a data workbench listing all projects assigned to the program. In the data workbench, a % Complete column allows users to update project-level completion values, supporting more accurate and up-to-date analysis of program progress.
• Matrix cells for projects have also been enhanced to visualize a % Complete indicator, enabling quick assessment of individual project progress directly within the matrix.

The license package Strategic Portfolio Management is required to work with the business question What is our strategic progress. The use case Strategy Validation must be activated.

A revised Policy Groups data workbench is available aligning with the modern look-and-feel of content areas in Alfabet 11. The data workbench can be accessed by going to Investment Architecture > Polices in the navigation panel and clicking the root node of the Policy Groups explorer. It presents an overview of all policy groups with information about their parent policy groups and all policies assigned to the policy group. With this revision, the obsolete Unassigned Policies view has been removed from the user interface.

A new Affected Architecture view is available in the Policy content area offering a user experience consistent with other architecture views across the interface. The matrix allows applications, business capabilities, business objects, business processes, components, demands, ICT objects, and organizations to be specified as impacted by the policy. As part of this update, the obsolete Affected Architecture Elements view has been removed from the user interface.

The license package Enterprise Architecture Management is required to work with policy groups and policies. The use case Architecture Governance must be activated.

The Affected Architecture Overview has been redesigned with an epic-centric focus to improve filtering and data analysis. It displays all assets impacted by the epic, as well as other epics that also affect those assets. The information can be filtered by asset class, affected assets, epic name, and epic status.

The license package Lean Portfolio Management is required to work with epics. The use case Portfolio Backlog Management must be activated.