Business Stakeholder |
This role is primarily read-only. It is for
people in the organization who are interested in information stored
in IBM® Rational® Focal Point™.
The business stakeholder can add project proposals and business needs.
Business stakeholders can also be assigned to handle their own risks
or investigate business needs. |
Executive Stakeholder |
This role is for an executive who is interested
in the project portfolio and the overall portfolio situation. This
role cannot approve decisions or prioritize projects. |
Finance |
This role is primarily read-only. People with
the finance role can edit financial data; for example, financials
for projects and applications. |
IT Analyst |
This role is part of the IT organization in
the business. The IT analyst does the first and second assessment
of projects proposals. The first assessment is to determine whether
a proposal is a project. The second assessment is to do the initial
estimation of the project proposal. |
Project Management Office (PMO) |
People with this role can create the pre-plan
for a project after the project is approved. The pre-plan includes
defining the resource demand, the scope, and the target dates. The
PMO also transfers projects that are approved for implementation to
a project planning tool, and then monitors their progress by retrieving
regular updates in the CLM system. In addition, the PMO manages business
needs. |
Steering Committee |
This role can make approval decisions about
the project portfolio. The steering committee approves business cases,
prioritizes project proposals (value analysis), reviews the project
road map, and does capacity analysis and project implementation approvals.
The steering committee also monitors the portfolio health, analyzes
project balance, reviews the strategic alignment of projects, and
analyzes the portfolio risk scorecard. |
Application Gap Analyst |
People with this role can vote on how much a
certain application is needed and how satisfied they are with that
application. The vote results form the application gap analysis chart. |
Proposal Owner |
This role provides the project proposal with
a business case. The proposal owner can also be responsible to create
the pre-plan for the project with the PMO. |