Amplify Strategy Execution

Vorteile

The Amplify tool is incredibly powerful and is a full portfolio and strategic management tool. At our company we have used Amplify to centralise and consolidate all portfolio change across the business and align it to our strategic goals. This has supported portfolio prioritisation, business planning and visibility of Product visions and roadmaps.

The benefits mapping and management within Amplify is also very powerful and intuitive and being able to add any item on to the map allows you to highlight dependencies between initiatives and how they are contributing to strategic goals.

We have also used the Resource capacity and demand module which is at a appropriate level for portfolio planning, giving us information on demand for resources and any capacity issues we need to plan for based on implementation of initiatives.

In terms of navigation Amplify is really easy to get around because of the breadcrumbs and search functionality.

The set up and configuration for Amplify was really intuitive, the admin settings are powerful and can be a little overwhelming at first, but once you understand the way the different categories inter-relate you realise how much you can tailor and customise for your organisation e.g. we have lots of custom fields which we can report against and allow us to understand portfolio themes. The integration spreadsheets also work really well for the initial bulk upload of initiatives and mapping to the system.

Nachteile

The API integration is missing - but I know this is on the roadmap. As an organisation Amplify is the top level of our planning framework and our development and project work is on Azure DevOps. An integration between these systems would be ideal. I think it would also be beneficial to have a viewers only license at a lower price for users who are more occasional.