1
“Show me what this change affects before I approve it.”
Good answer · Lists the applications, capabilities, teams and controls it touches, each with its cost.
Bad answer · A dependency diagram with no money on it.
From plan to proof, in one continuous learning loop.
Is the work getting done — the right way, and for the right reasons?
Govern & Deliver connects the project portfolio, your technology landscape, your policies and your AI tools to the same model as strategy and money. Funding flows to the work it pays for. Every application has a real cost attached, not just a line in an inventory. Controls come with evidence, and gaps come with a price. And before a change is approved, you can see everything it touches — so the trade-off is made in the meeting, not discovered months later in delivery.
Modules in Govern & Deliver
- Strategic Portfolio ManagementIncluded
- Enterprise Architecture
- Enterprise Standards & Controls
- AI Governance & Assurance
For CIO, CTO, portfolio office, architecture & risk
The pressure
Execution fails between the teams, not inside them.
Every leader’s request makes sense from where they sit. What it affects across the rest of the company is rarely visible when it is being prioritized, so the knock-on effects show up later as overruns, delays and outages — and the CIO is held accountable for outcomes shaped by other people’s decisions. Projects, architecture and controls each live in a separate tool, and none of them can see the money.
What it looks like today
- Changes approved without knowing what else they affect
- Funded work with no budget line — and budget lines with no work
- An architecture inventory that is always six months out of date
- Audit evidence pieced together after the fact
What changes
What changes when Govern & Deliver runs on one model.
TodayWith Dotwork
A project tool that tracks work
A portfolio steered against strategy, capacity and cost
An application inventory and a target-state diagram
Every application with its real cost, and a priced plan to get where you are going
Policy in a PDF and audit as a scramble
Controls with dated evidence and a price on every gap
Trade-offs discovered during delivery
Everything a change affects, visible before money is committed
See the ripple effect
See everything a change touches — before you approve it.
Pick a proposed change. Dotwork shows the applications, services, capabilities, teams, contracts and controls it affects — each with the cost it carries. Engineers call this the blast radius. The trade-off stays a human decision, and it should: prioritizing only means something when someone chooses between two things the business genuinely wants and cannot have at once.
Where other tools stop
Project tools see the work. Architecture tools see the systems. Compliance tools see the controls. The ripple effect runs across all three — and through the money.
Modules
Start where the pressure is highest. Extend without re-platforming.
Strategic Portfolio Management is included with every Govern & Deliver module. Each module after it reads the same model — so it adds context, not another silo.
Foundation · included
Strategic Portfolio Management
“Is the work we are doing still the work we meant to fund?”
Strategy, funding, agile portfolios, product operations, programs and projects — connected, current and governed.
Fund and Govern the WorkFlow the PortfolioDeliver the Work
Explore Strategic Portfolio ManagementEnterprise Architecture
“What does this capability cost to run — and what depends on it?”
Capabilities, applications, technology, dependencies and future plans — with real costs attached, not in a separate architecture tool.
See the EstateMap the CapabilitiesFace the End of LifeTrace the DependenciesPrice the Target State
Explore Enterprise ArchitectureEnterprise Standards & Controls
“Can we prove our controls were actually working on what we shipped?”
Turn policies and standards into owned controls, evidence and continuous checks — without a separate compliance system.
Publish the StandardsProve the ControlsFund the DebtTrust the Model
Explore Enterprise Standards & ControlsAI Governance & Assurance
“What AI is running, what can it access, and can we prove it is under control?”
Govern AI models and agents with clear owners, risks, controls, decision limits and evidence — they still stop where a person needs to decide.
Know the AI EstateAssure the AISet the Decision Rights
Explore AI Governance & AssuranceWho it is for
The questions it answers — by the person asking.
CIOPortfolio office leadEnterprise architectCTOCompliance and riskCISO and head of AI
“Is the work we are doing still the work we meant to fund?
Start in
Strategic Portfolio Management
“Where is funded work stuck, and what is it waiting on?
Start in
Strategic Portfolio Management
“Which applications should we keep, and what do they cost?
Start in
Enterprise Architecture
“What technology is losing vendor support, what depends on it, and is there budget to replace it?
Start in
Enterprise Architecture
“Which policies have controls behind them, and where is the proof?
Start in
Enterprise Standards & Controls
“What AI is running, what can it access, and has it been checked?
Start in
AI Governance & Assurance
What it delivers
From reporting on the enterprise to steering it.
Insights
What becomes visible
- Approved budget traced to the work it pays for — and work with no budget behind it
- Every application rated on business value and technical health, with its cost
- Technology losing vendor support, with no funded plan to replace it
- Technical debt as a list of priced items, with the yearly cost of leaving each one alone
Decisions
What can be decided — and revisited
- Whether to approve a change, with everything it affects on the table
- Which applications to invest in, keep as-is, replace or retire
- Which technical debt to pay down first, based on payback rather than volume
- Which AI tools can go live, and what each one is allowed to decide
What it sits on, and what it replaces
Keep what works. Retire the manual reconciliation.
Your systems of record stay authoritative. What goes first is the reconciliation work between them.
You keep
- Jira, Azure DevOps and the delivery tools your teams already use
- SAFe, Lean Portfolio Management or whatever delivery method you run
- Your control frameworks and the boards that own them
You retire — on your schedule
- The standalone project portfolio tool and its quarterly re-ranking
- The architecture inventory nobody trusts
- Evidence hunts before every audit
Where to land
Licensed by operating scope — not by seat.
Start with one portfolio, one product area or your architecture team. Strategic Portfolio Management is included automatically with every module.
See how pricing worksBefore you buy
Three questions to ask any platform.
How to get a number instead of a pitch.
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“Price the target architecture and the steps to get there.”
Good answer · A dated plan, priced from the same numbers as today’s spend.
Bad answer · A roadmap slide.
3
“Show me a control and proof it was working when the change went live.”
Good answer · Policy, control, implementation and sign-off — with a date on each.
Bad answer · A spreadsheet put together for this meeting.
Methods and frameworks
Runs the methods you already use.
Dotwork does not ask you to adopt a new method. The frameworks your teams run become views over the same model.
SAFe
Scaled Agile Framework: a widely used way to run agile delivery across many teams.
AI-Native SAFe
SAFe with AI doing the preparation and people making the decisions.
BIZBOK
The business architecture standard for mapping what a business does and how value flows.
TBM
Technology Business Management: a standard way to categorize IT spend and who uses it.
CLEAR
Strategy to execution, connected and measured.
The model underneath
Every module makes the next one smarter.
Steer, Fund & Optimize and Govern & Deliver all read and write the same Enterprise Operating Model. The first module you license builds the model. Every module after it adds context instead of another silo — and Dotwork AI reads all of it, stopping where the decision is yours.
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