We use ARP extensively for the internal IT product roadmapping and annual planning. We plan on making LeanIX ARP data traversable with  the resource management system as well as Jira through integrations to make the transparent picture.

Challenges:

• No way to export / import milestones or report them other than through the roadmap reports
• No way to present the roadmap with transformations view
• We would like to use the decisions in conjunction with the Initiatives; however, decisions are not currently visible from the connected fact sheets representation

Hi ​​​​@vlad_valeyev 

We truly value your feedback! As we prepare for the upcoming ARP demo, we want to ensure it meets your needs. We’ll be showcasing best practices, how to model decisions alongside initiatives, applications, and critical IT components, etc., but we’d love your input to refine the demo. 

• Transformation View – What would success look like for you? What specific details or visuals do you need? Ex: for introducing new app, would it be type, application name, introduced in, predecessor handling, etc. 
• Reporting Needs – What reports do you rely on today? How should transformation-related reports help your team? What specific details/visual would you like to see/why?
• Milestone Import/Export – What improvements would make this process smoother? (e.g., importing via inventory, transformation, API, etc. This will help reduce the time from x to y for my team)

Your feedback will be shared with product managers to help shape future enhancements. If you have a related product idea, feel free to reference it to streamline this process.

Looking forward to your thoughts—thanks in advance!

Hi ​@ricauter.urdaneta!

Thank you for reaching out! I’ll do my best to respond illustrating the answer with business cases. 

For the transformations and reporting on them:

• In the current state the best output to present the initiatives to C-level and business stakeholders is the Project Roadmap report. 
• To make this presentation more business-users friendly, we introduced a new fact sheet type called “Feature” that is related to the Initiative. This fact sheet type represents application behavior as experienced by business end-users. 
• We use Project Roadmap report with drill down from the Initiative hierarchy (Program→ Project→ Epic(sprint) to Features delivered by sprints
• We can also present the same report with drill-down to applications for the tech view
• However, the ideal approach would be a mixed drill-down to all transformations to be able to present in one report / screen the entire program that:
  • Replaces IT Components and/or Applications
  • Delivers new business-facing features
  • Shows adoption of new tech but various business groups (i.e., transformation showing business group association with an application change, business context to application change, etc.)
• We have the data and we could bring it to the versions of report with different drill-down logic and arrange it into a presentation or a dashboard but it would still be very challenging to observe the whole picture scattered across multiple reports.

We could achieve the same outside to LeanIX in some reporting tool like PowerBI by federating data from multiple sets but it would be more cumbersome and exporting/accessing transformations and milestones to expose them in PowerBI does not seem to be supported. 

On the transformation management the UI could be more user-friendly as the transformation explorer is the only view that let’s you manipulate them outside of a single epic UI. 

Finally, on the milestones, there is no way to bring them in from the outside sources (i.e., Microsoft Project, SmartSheets, etc.). Also, there is no option to move milestones between Epics within the project or between parent and child initiatives when such need arises. 

I’d be happy to jump on a call to elucidate more on these topics. I’m sure ​@Alex Bolcon would be able to help arranging it.