Changepoint Accelerators for PPM

Having a complete view of all of your technology investments allows your organization to make better investment planning decisions that are aligned with your businesses broader goals.

Changepoint Accelerators for Project Portfolio Management are pre-configured packages that can put your organization on the fast track to delivering maximum business value from your Changepoint investment.

Changepoint Accelerators for PPM integrate three core elements of IT portfolio management, providing IT organizations with a single integrated platform from which to manage their business:

  • Portfolio and Investment Planning
  • Project Portfolio Management
  • Application Portfolio Management.

Supply and Demand Accelerator

Changepoint is the industry’s only Business Portfolio Management (BPM) solution that addresses both supply management and demand management. Capabilities include:  

  • pre-packaged business metrics
  • process automation and management portals
  • reports and templates (based on industry standards such as PMBOK).

Demand Management

The management and analysis of demand is at the heart of tracking, analyzing, prioritizing and funding ongoing projects and new project requests. This contains three focused disciplines that are at the core of Changepoint’s Supply and Demand Accelerator: 

  • strategic planning and annual budget allocation
  • strategic demand management
  • operational demand management.

Supply Management

Supply Management provides a standardized approach to managing all aspects of project delivery, from tracking costs and allocating resources to overseeing state-gate transitions and reviewing project status.
Supply Management spans the following disciplines:

  • Project Portfolio Management
  • Resource Management
  • Project Management
  • Project Reporting
  • User Adoption Metrics

Agile Accelerator

As IT organizations continue to adopt more iterative software development approaches, including Agile, they still need to deliver projects using more traditional approaches. Changepoint’s Agile Accelerator is flexible enough to address different development methodologies in a single solution, right down to the project level.

Capabilities include best practices for:

  • capturing and managing backlog
  • configurable workflow for automatic sprint creation and scrum master support.

Accelerator for Technology Companies

For technology companies looking to improve their new product development process, Changepoint’s Accelerator for technology companies provides best practices, workflows and reports to guide them through the new product ideation process. This includes:

  • an IDEA dashboard and portal
  • multi-level stage-gate process
  • pre-configuration of product attributes for Product Portfolio Management (PPM)

Release Planning

Technology companies must constantly gather, assess and prioritize when planning future product releases. Changepoint’s Accelerator for technology companies provides recommended approaches and reports for assessing and prioritizing product enhancements and fixes, as well as release planning. This Accelerator can also be fully integrated with the agile development process where required.

Project Execution

Our Accelerators’ support for project execution includes agile configuration and associated reports to enable adoption. In addition, it offers enhanced defect management workflow and reports, an industry established three-point estimation method for project planning.

Application Portfolio Management (APM) Accelerator

Our APM Accelerator helps companies overcome many of the challenges of deploying APM strategies such as:

  • identifying inventory
  • capturing metrics
  • generating relevant analysis for the IT and business side of the organization.

Changepoint’s APM Accelerator delivers a comprehensive set of metrics, providing insight into application health and automated data collection all while maintaining metrics in a single repository.

Delivery Options for Accelerators

Choose one accelerator or mix and match relevant elements from some or all. Our accelerators complement Changepoint’s implementation methodology and your choice of delivery options (SaaS, on-premises or buy-and-host) to help you manage implementation and adoption and drive ROI.