Running IT like an investment portfolio
Projects get funded once and never re-examined, even when the case behind them has gone.
Set stop conditions before a program starts, price the flexibility a business case leaves out, and estimate from comparable projects instead of the plan. Use them at funding and again at each stage gate.
Downloads
Files you keep and edit: PDF, Excel, Word or PowerPoint. Most show part of the file before you ask for it.
- ChecklistSunk-Cost Circuit-BreakerA kill-criteria checklist that sets the stop conditions for a migration or program before it starts.
- WorksheetReal Options Naming WorksheetA worksheet that names the options a capital investment holds, so a review sees the flexibility a DCF leaves out.
- WorksheetReference-Class Estimation WorksheetA worksheet that turns past projects' overruns into a low, likely and high range for a new project's estimate.
- RegisterCalibrated Risk RegisterA risk register that scores each risk as a probability and a dollar impact, with expected value calculated.
Online tools
Fill in the page and get the result on screen. No account needed.
Apps
Enter your situation and get the analysis back: a score, a draft or a plan. They run with a CIOPages account.
Part of the job Control technology spend.
Other sets
- Management consulting tools for CIOs
- Deciding where AI goes
- Cutting cloud and SaaS spend
- Governing the AI already in use
- Buying AI: vendors and models
- Buying technology without regret
- AI regulation and risk
- Architecture decisions that hold up
- Technical debt you can show the CFO
- Security platform evaluations
- Org design and decision rights
- The first 100 days as a CIO
- Board and budget season
- Incidents and resilience
Keep reading
A worksheet that turns past projects' overruns into a low, likely and high range for a new project's estimate.
A risk register that scores each risk as a probability and a dollar impact, with expected value calculated.