DEMAND and benefits MANAGEMENT

Project management is about delivering projects the right way, while demand management is about choosing the right projects to execute.

Projects require a large amount of resources both financial and human to be delivered, hence when you’re doing some projects you can´t be doing others. Organizations need to make sure the projects they choose to execute will lead to achieve the setted business goals.

Are you selecting the best projects portfolio for your organization? Ask yourself:

• Does my ongoing projects contribute to deliver the desired business strategy?
• Am I capturing the better return on investment?
• Does my ongoing projects constitute a lower risk portfolio?
• Am I combining these 3 factors to obtain the best version for my portfolio?

The expected benefits need to be clearly identified for a go or no-go decision, with cost and benefits future projection, and a strategic and risk analysis. Nonetheless, to drive accountability and learn from missed forecasts a process must be in place to track the benefits after project execution, and understand the root causes of the missed expectations.

To assist organizations in deploying an adequate model for demand management and benefit realization, SHIFT has developed the SHIFT 2 Demand solution which extends the capabilities of Microsoft Project Online and supports a rich Demand Management process, catering for the following scenarios:

• Stage Gate process request
• Ideation process
• New product development
• Business case and investment analysis
• Project Charter
• Benefits Management.

All this within Office 365 and integrated with Project Online.

SHIFT 2 DEMAND Portfolio optimization

Out of the box Project Online supports 2 functionalities to deploy demand management processes: directly as a project, or using a Sharepoint list. Using sharepoint will always require for the requests to be converted into a project, to run a what if analysis to the portfolio and select the right projects.

However, both the Project forms and the Sharepoint forms are very limited, not supporting rich controls for time-phased grids for cost/benefit analysis, or smart forms requesting more or less information based on the investment size. To provide a rich and multidevice experience, we leverage on the full power of the most recent Office 365 forms and workflows to provide you with a rich experience that supports all your business requirements.

This solution provides:

• Effective support for internal governance procedures
• Rich business cases or project charters
• Integration with Project Online
• An auditable process
• Online support to assist your team
• Form to benefits realization register and root cause analysis

You can easily migrate your current project list from an Excel spreadsheet, and start working in your portfolio optimization and benefit management today!