IT Business Management / Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM)
Overview
Planning and managing work at the portfolio level: capturing demand and ideas, running projects and portfolios, allocating people and money, and connecting strategy to execution. Formerly ITBM, now Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) — the "are we doing the right things, and can we deliver them?" layer above delivery teams.
Modules in this family
- Demand Management — capture and evaluate ideas and demand
- Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) — run projects and portfolios (PPM)
- Resource Management — plan and allocate people to work
- Strategic Planning — connect strategy, roadmaps, and funding to execution
- Application Portfolio Management (APM) — rationalize the application estate (own family)
Modules in this family
Demand Management
A structured front door for new work: ideas and requests from across the business are captured, evaluated consistently, and either promoted into projects or parked — so investment decisions are deliberate rather than driven by whoever shouts loudest.
Project & Portfolio Management (PPM)
Running projects and grouping them into portfolios: planning work (waterfall, agile, or hybrid), tracking progress and status, managing deliverables and milestones, and giving leadership a portfolio-level view of what's in flight and how it's going.
Resource Management
Matching people to project work: seeing who's available and skilled, requesting and allocating them to projects, and tracking whether planned effort matches reality (often via timecards). It answers "do we have the people to deliver what we've committed to?"
Strategic Planning
Connects high-level strategy to the actual work: defining objectives and roadmaps, planning and funding portfolios against them, running "what if" scenarios, and mapping business capabilities and value streams — so leadership can see whether the work in flight actually advances the strategy.
Official docs: IT Business Management ↗