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Course Description: What is Technology Business Management (TBM) or IT Financial Management (ITFM)? Why is it important for IT? This session explores the need for TBM as well as how it drives significant cost optimization and more effective business-technology management practices. We will review the TBM framework, taxonomy, model, and how TBM processes and tools compliment your existing investment in PPM tools. -
Course Description: Do you want to talk to other customers that are using or plan to use project management? In this moderated round table, customers can share experiences and provide insights on process, configurations, challenges, and successes. We will divide into small groups and discuss customer selected topics—100% sharing -
Course Description: Do you want to improve the success of your projects? This class will discuss some lessons learned on making projects more successful. We will discuss things like: • Developing robust test plans, creating effective use and test cases, and implementing test scripts that make sense.- Why failures occur and what you can do to minimize the impact and plan for success—including a case study on lessons learned.
- Developing, testing, fine-tuning, and executing deployment plans for success.
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Course Description: Does your organization struggle to understand your fully burdened TCO for the applications that enable your business? Do you use spreadsheets and disparate data sources to manually calculate TCO? This session explores the data sources needed to calculate the fully burdened TCO for applications. We will also cover marketplace tools that allow you to track spending, providing trends of applications broken down by run and development costs. -
Course Description: Does your IT organization struggle with IT budgeting and annual planning? Does your annual budget and planning process take months? This session explores leading approaches and purpose-built tools to shorten your budget cycle, align resources to business needs, and plan resources into future years while reducing errors and manual effort. -
Course Description: This unique session is divided into presentation and open discussion segments, where we will focus on offering philosophies and practical tips to increase the wisdom we have about ourselves as we navigate our corporate lives. Using conscious leadership principles as a guide, we will cover topics such as empathy in the workplace, understanding and working through internal drama, and the benefits of meditation and silence. -
Course Description: Do you know what PPM, APM, Agile, ITFM, and other tools are available in the marketplace? Have you taken a strategic look at the key IT processes and tools that exist to support them? Have you been asked to evaluate and recommend a PPM tool? This class will review other ITBM tools and examine their pros and cons. We will also provide six keys to evaluating a PPM solution. -
Course Description: The single biggest risk for CIOs and IT organizations today is not being able to make good spending decisions at the pace of digital business.- Challenges
- Investment Planning
- IT Financial Management
- Agile Financials
- ServiceNow ITFM Capabilities
- Apptio Introduction
- ServiceNow / Apptio Solution
- Best Practices
- Pitfalls to Avoid
- Apptio Details
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Course Description: In the new bimodal IT environment, does your organization lack insights into what Agile work is being done and what value is being delivered? Learn how Apptio Agile Insights merges data from multiple Agile tools, including Clarity PPM, to bring together a total picture of the value IT is delivering.

