Requirements Management & IT Governance
Requirements management and IT governance solve the problems in project planning durable!
In most cases, corporate and IT strategies are only slightly interlinked. A study by Trigonum has shown that the main reason for this is the lack of organizational structures for close cooperation between business and information technology. Only every fourth IT manager describes them as functional, not all others give good marks to the organizational conditions for IT governance, because IT strategies are derived either only to a small extent or not at all from the market-related corporate strategies.
The benefits of Trigonum’s requirements management:
- Continuous integration of business and IT
- Company-wide transparent project portfolio
- More effective support for competitive strategies
- Planning of IT resource reduction more in line with requirements
- Reducing the risks of misinvestment
- Flexible planning instrument
- Simple control of the process in requirements management
IT Governance
Trigonum’s Requirements Management is dedicated to this problem area of IT governance, which is essentially attributable to inadequate processes in requirements management, by means of a systematic approach to the establishment of sustainably effective and transparent structures. This methodology is based on best practice models and discloses the action requirements for all process participants at all times. At the same time, clear responsibilities are defined in all areas of management, departments and IT.
This creates an instrument that transforms the initially problematic conditions with clearly negative effects on the competitiveness and profitability of the company into easily controllable requirement processes.
The decisive effect: Permanently tightly integrated business and IT strategies instead of contradictory approaches without a common denominator.
Requirements Management & IT Governance
Requirements management and IT governance solve the problems in project planning durable!
In most cases, corporate and IT strategies are only slightly interlinked. A study by Trigonum has shown that the main reason for this is the lack of organizational structures for close cooperation between business and information technology. Only every fourth IT manager describes them as functional, not all others give good marks to the organizational conditions for IT governance, because IT strategies are derived either only to a small extent or not at all from the market-related corporate strategies.
The benefits of Trigonum’s requirements management:
- Continuous integration of business and IT
- Company-wide transparent project portfolio
- More effective support for competitive strategies
- Planning of IT resource reduction more in line with requirements
- Reducing the risks of misinvestment
- Flexible planning instrument
- Simple control of the process in requirements management
IT Governance
Trigonum’s Requirements Management is dedicated to this problem area of IT governance, which is essentially attributable to inadequate processes in requirements management, by means of a systematic approach to the establishment of sustainably effective and transparent structures. This methodology is based on best practice models and discloses the action requirements for all process participants at all times. At the same time, clear responsibilities are defined in all areas of management, departments and IT.
This creates an instrument that transforms the initially problematic conditions with clearly negative effects on the competitiveness and profitability of the company into easily controllable requirement processes.
The decisive effect: Permanently tightly integrated business and IT strategies instead of contradictory approaches without a common denominator.
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Sensitising people to purposeful communication
Experience has shown that the core problems of discrepancies between business and IT strategies include inadequate communication structures in companies. Despite the seemingly established coordination procedures between the business departments with their business requirements and IT as a technical implementation resource, there is no sufficient consensus from the results point of view. The causes are mainly the different languages with different views of the goals in the project requirements.
Moderated discussion of requirements planning
Because past forms of the requirement management often did not lead to fruitful results, “Trigonums requirement management” on a special form of the round table. By the participation of the enterprise management, all relevant specialized departments as well as the IT range in these in firm rhythm taking place prioritization Workshops the conditions for enterprise-far obligatory decisions are met. Above all, the discussion is accompanied by a neutral moderator. In particular, his function is to close the typical gaps in communication between IT and the departments in project and task prioritization.
Flexible updating of the project portfolio
Since a requirements portfolio can never be static, because the dynamic changes of the company must be sufficiently taken into account, the project and task prioritization for IT can be modified according to requirements. In the case of additional project requirements, this is done by means of a differentiated evaluation. At the same time, the project portfolio is regularly updated and published, including the deferred measures. Thus “Trigonum’s Requirements Management” becomes a very efficient and at the same time easy to handle instrument with which the previous discrepancies between corporate and IT strategies can be permanently eliminated.
Analysis of the requirements on your business benefit
Because business strategies are by no means always adequately reflected in the project requirements, a precise analysis of all planned projects is required. The focus of this phase of “Trigonum’s Requirements Management” is therefore an evaluation of which of the planned measures actually have a sufficiently high corporate strategic value. For this analysis, a matrix with various assessment dimensions is used, including costs and resource requirements, for example. The sum of their numerical individual results then represents the priority value of the relevant requirement for the company.
Systematic and resilient prioritization of projects
Based on the strategic and operational values determined, an objective priority list can now be drawn up across all the requirements of the various departments. A project portfolio that is binding for all participants is then derived from this. Supported by electronic documentation, which includes a ranking of all projects including their priority rating for company-wide transparency, this portfolio provides the basis for comprehensive synchronization of business and IT.