Optus had challenges in determining the right amount of programs to fund and which suite of programs would optimize their investment against their strategic objectives. They also needed to consider risk, technical debt, capacity and program interdependencies in their portfolio planning.

Seven Consulting worked with Optus to run a process to agree the transformational objectives and their weightings to create a forced ranking of projects against these. A conversion table was created for key soft benefits as part of this process. This was then overlaid with the major capacity constraints and the capacity demand from each project for these elements. All of this was supported by the Portfolio Optimisation tool. There was a final overlay of dependencies between projects.