The adaptive project management and reporting (APMR) market is defined by technologies that can support multiple delivery models to optimize project management practices and complex resource management needs across an organization. These tools promote continuous collaboration and unification of diverse and distributed teams. To support accelerating rates of change and continuous value delivery, these tools adapt to changing customer needs and governance approaches across multiple organizational designs and operating models. They provide multiple execution approaches that are grounded in value-based decision making and the time-to-value perceptions of their customers. Organizations need tools to support the integration of traditional development practices alongside agile, adaptive and hybrid ways of working while driving high levels of productivity from contributors and team members. The dynamic and complex multiple organizational operating model design of all organizations makes the correct governance approach imperative, yet difficult to achieve. To drive organizationwide outcomes, APMR tools need to support adaptive decision making without incurring additional bureaucracy.
Gartner defines enterprise agile planning (EAP) tools as products that enable organizations to scale their agile practices to support a holistic enterprise view. These tools act as a hub for defining, planning, managing and deploying work. They also serve as an information hub for the disparate islands of metrics from the full life cycle. Just as agile is an evolution of development methodologies, EAP tools are an evolution of project-/team-centric tools. They support a business-outcome-driven approach to managing the full life cycle of agile product delivery at scale. EAP tools in this market combine data from multiple sources to enable: - Monthly, weekly and even daily incremental value delivery based on business outcomes - Support for enterprise agile frameworks like Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) - Product roadmapping - Management of strategy, investments and objectives - Increased visibility into the flow of work - Management of work backlogs - Collaboration capabilities for individuals and teams - Management of cross-team dependencies - Release planning and forecasting - Visibility into the financial aspects of the work being done
PPM software providers covered under this market definition aim to support the selection, planning and execution of a variety of different work packages or containers, including, but not limited to, traditional projects. They often fold in collaboration and communication capabilities and allow work teams and project offices to report, monitor and identify course correction in resource-intensive project and work environments. Providers included in this market offer these capabilities directly through their own products, but frequently recognize that specific integration points may also be needed to connect niche tools or data sources. The PPM capabilities identified as essential or critical include: • Project demand management • Project planning and management • Time management • Resource management • Resource capacity planning • Project portfolio management • Project collaboration • Program management • Reporting services • Security and user management • Integration • Usability
Gartner defines strategic portfolio management (SPM) as a set of business capabilities, processes and supporting portfolio management technology. Business leaders, enterprise portfolio management office (EPMO) leaders and IT leaders require SPM to support enterprisewide strategy-to-execution alignment and adaptation. The SPM market addresses the integrated portfolio management technology needs of business leaders, EPMO leaders and IT leaders. SPM technology supports clear definition of key business strategies and desired business outcomes, and the formulation and mapping of these with key portfolio elements, such as business capabilities, investments, programs, digital and physical products, applications and projects. SPM technology allows users to create multiple portfolio and subportfolio types with focused themes, such as programs, digital products, physical products, business or IT services, projects and applications. It allows users to link and cross-reference elements in the different portfolios and subportfolios to support integrated portfolio analysis and tracking.