Foundation · included with every Govern & Deliver module
“Is the work we are doing still the work we meant to fund?”
Strategic Portfolio Management is the foundation of Govern & Deliver and is included with every module. The approved budget flows down to investments, programs and projects. Large initiatives move across one board, each with its business case and the product team that owns it. Projects roll up to the capabilities they improve and the cost they carry, with nothing counted twice. Because the portfolio shares one model with strategy and money, a trade-off is a real trade-off — not a re-ranking in a spreadsheet.
Rooms you open
Methods supported
Part of Govern & Deliver · How do we turn choices into governed outcomes?
The pressure
Priorities get rebuilt from scratch every quarter. Funding flows through a spreadsheet no delivery tool can read. Scope changes land after the planning cycle closes, and by the time someone notices a project has drifted from its goal, the money is spent. Agile portfolio practices end up running beside the finance numbers instead of on them.
What it looks like today
What changes
The portfolio as a list of projects
The portfolio as funded work, traced to strategy and cost
Team budgets in a spreadsheet
Team budgets and spending rules in the same place as the work
Scope changes found after the cycle
Scope changes caught during the cycle, with a clear approval trail
The work, with the money attached
Large initiatives by stage and health, each with its business case, the product team that owns it and its funding. Move a card and the people, cost and goal it affects move with it.
Where other tools stop
Agile tools track the flow of work. Project tools track projects. Neither keeps the business case, the budget and the strategic goal on the same card.
The rooms
Each room answers one question a leader actually asks, with the view that answers it and the measures that say whether it is working.
A room is a ready-made view that answers one leadership question, built on the same shared data as every other room.
Room 01
“How does funding flow down to the work, and who oversees it?”
The approved budget flowing to investments, programs and projects, with the change requests, approvals and exceptions that govern it.
How you know it is working
Room 02
“Where is funded work in the pipeline, and what is it waiting on?”
Every large initiative on one board by stage, type and health, with its business case and the product team that owns it.
How you know it is working
Room 03
“How does the work we fund and staff add up to a capability, and to its cost?”
The programs and projects behind each business capability, each with its funding and its team, added up with nothing counted twice.
How you know it is working
Framework
SAFe (the Scaled Agile Framework) organizes large delivery organizations into portfolios, product teams and regular planning cycles. Dotwork runs all of it — team budgets, spending rules and technical groundwork — on one governed record. AI-Native SAFe is not a separate product: it is a framework Govern & Deliver supports out of the box.
Portfolio budgets
Team budgets, spending rules and large initiatives, in the same model as the finance numbers.
Teams and planning cycles
Product teams, teams of teams and quarterly planning, with capacity and cost alongside.
AI in the flow
AI prepares the context for every planning session and review, and stops where the decision belongs to a person.
Who it is for
“Is the work we are doing still the work we meant to fund?
“Which initiatives are stuck, and on what?
“Which funded work has nothing happening, and what is happening without funding?
“Is my next planning cycle funded and staffed?
What it replaces
How it is licensed
Strategic Portfolio Management is the foundation of Govern & Deliver and is included with every module in it.
Start with one portfolio, one product area or your architecture team. Strategic Portfolio Management is included automatically with every module.
See pricingMethods and frameworks
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.
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ExploreThe model underneath
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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