DASA Portfolio Management Value Box
The DASA Portfolio Management Value Box provides clear, practical guidance for mastering portfolio management. It is designed to fit any methodology to help you identify, design, implement, measure, and improve the key enabling practices and capabilities to enhance portfolio management.
Become an Enterprise Member or Transformation Partner
The DASA Portfolio Management Value Box is exclusively available to enterprise members and transformation partners. Consult an expert to learn how you can access this and additional research, insights, tools, and guidance.
Stop Wasting Resources on Low-Impact Initiatives
Without a robust portfolio management approach, organizations risk wasting time, talent, and resources on initiatives that don’t deliver, while missing opportunities that could drive significant impact. When portfolio priorities shift without clear alignment to business objectives, teams become misaligned, critical talent is stretched thin, and agility is lost, making it challenging to adapt to market changes.
Your Transformation Enabler
A DASA Value Box accelerates your digital transformation by providing practical tools and proven frameworks that enable teams to deliver value faster, collaborate better, and reduce the risk of failure across all phases of implementation.
Accelerates Implementation
Value Boxes kick-start transformation initiatives with practical, ready-to-use tools and templates. It helps you move quickly from planning to execution, reducing delays and speeding up value delivery.
Drives Faster Value Delivery
Value Boxes enable teams to deliver continuous value by improving collaboration and optimizing workflows. They provide structured guidance that ensures all teams are aligned and working efficiently.
Reduces Risk with Proven Solutions
Value Boxes include tested components and frameworks that reduce the risk of failure during transformations. These assets offer a clear path to success across different phases, backed by industry best practices.
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Value Box
Designed as an implementation accelerator, the Platform Engineering Value Box helps your team move swiftly from strategy to execution. It enables value delivery with proven tools and resources that guide your transformation, reducing the risk of failure with practical, ready-to-use assets and templates.
Portfolio Management Capability Framework Paper
The Portfolio Management Capability Framework Paper establishes a common language for portfolio management and offers a comprehensive view of essential capabilities. It provides thought leadership on achieving a competitive advantage through portfolio management in today’s digital landscape. This independent, methodology-agnostic framework outlines the key benefits of adopting DASA Portfolio Management and introduces detailed concepts vital for enterprise-wide portfolio management success. Additionally, the paper covers common pitfalls in portfolio management and offers guidance on how to effectively avoid them.
Portfolio Management Capability Assessment
The Portfolio Management Capability Assessment delivers in-depth, actionable insights into the maturity of your portfolio management capabilities. It offers essential guidance on conducting a Portfolio Management Capability Review and includes a comprehensive set of assessment questions aligned with the DASA Portfolio Management Framework. This tool provides clarity on your portfolio management maturity level and comes with a template for the DASA Portfolio Management Capability Review Report.
Portfolio Leadership Workshop
The Portfolio Leadership Workshop is designed to help enterprise leaders understand their critical role in sponsoring, mandating, and embracing portfolio management. It fosters a shared understanding and common language around key portfolio management concepts and includes a guided walk-through of the portfolio management capability roadmap based on the maturity assessment. The workshop motivates leaders to empower portfolio governance, inspires them to take an active role in driving portfolio management success, and emphasizes the importance of leading by example.
Co-creating the Portfolio Capability Roadmap Workshop
The Co-creating the Portfolio Capability Roadmap Workshop aims to design a tailored roadmap to enhance the maturity of your organization’s portfolio management capability. This workshop reconfirms the current maturity level, defines the impact of assessment findings and recommendations, and sets and prioritizes primary improvement objectives. Participants agree on ownership for each objective, present prioritized goals, key results, and initiatives, and introduce a clear roadmap for achieving these results. The workshop ensures alignment on the key results and the roadmap forward.
Portfolio Board Behavior Workshop
The Portfolio Board Behavior Workshop is designed to strengthen the portfolio board by developing and reinforcing desired behaviors. It establishes a shared understanding of portfolio governance, clarifies the key responsibilities of the portfolio board, and introduces and prioritizes desirable board behaviors. The workshop also guides the creation of a Portfolio Board Code of Conduct and introduces practices and strategies to integrate this Code into portfolio governance, reinforcing the behaviors essential for effective portfolio management.
Your Trusted Partner in Building High-Performance Digital Organizations
We understand the challenges IT leaders face in managing a complex portfolio of initiatives while aligning with strategic goals. The DASA Portfolio Management Value Box provides you with expert guidance and a clear framework to prioritize high-impact initiatives, drive alignment across teams, and respond to change.
A Simple Path to Portfolio Success
Maximizing ROI, enhancing agility, and ensuring every initiative contributes to your organization’s success doesn’t have to be complicated.
Step 1
Get Access to the DASA Value Box
Secure access to the Value Box and unlock expert tools, resources, and guidance tailored to your transformation goals.
Step 2
Leverage Ready-to-Use Assets
Apply the practical tools, templates, and insights to improve your processes, enhance team collaboration, and drive efficiency.
Step 3
Accelerate Value Delivery
Empower your teams to deliver faster, reduce complexity, and achieve measurable results by using the resources in the Value Box.
Business Benefits
Enhanced Strategic Alignment
Prioritize projects that deliver the most value and support the organization’s long-term objectives, ensuring every effort is strategically aligned.
Optimize Resource Utilization
Direct resources efficiently by allocating the right skills, budgets, and time to high-priority projects, optimizing team performance without overextending.
Identify and Mitigate Risks
Identify and mitigate risks early to reduce project failure rates by scanning for potential risks across all projects and enabling proactive management.
Adapt Quickly to Changing Conditions
Respond swiftly to changes in market or strategy by continuously reassessing and adjusting project priorities, keeping the organization agile and adaptable.
Drive Decisions with Data Insights
Empower leaders with data-driven insights on project performance, costs, and ROI to support informed decisions that maximize business value.
Maximize ROI
Increase ROI by focusing on strategically aligned projects and enhancing resource efficiency to drive successful outcomes across the portfolio.
DASA Portfolio Management Certification Program
certification program ○ 2 days
You’ve got the tools to improve your portfolio management initiatives—now it’s time to take the next step. The DASA Portfolio Management Certification Program builds on your expertise, equipping you with the knowledge and credentials to lead portfolio management initiatives that drive strategic value and measurable results.
Helping the enterprise select the right strategic initiatives and investments, and optimizing their value delivery flow, is a key attribute of high-performing organizations.
— Dave van Herpen, IMP/ACT
“The Value Box offers templates, workshops, assessments, and resources that, when paired with the DASA certification program, become invaluable tools for taking meaningful action and driving real results.”
Falko Werner
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