The ServiceNow® Project Portfolio Management application enables you to create and manage a wide range of projects ranging from a few small tasks to large portfolios of projects. Project Portfolio Management was enhanced and updated in the Washington DC release.

Project Portfolio Management highlights for the Washington DC release

  • Migrate resource plans to resource assignments of projects and demands and work on resource allocation using ServiceNow® Project Workspace.
  • Migrate cost plans to attribute-based labor costs for your projects and demands.
  • Generate labor costs for Agile epics.
  • Migrate baselines for your projects and demands to Next Experience.
  • Migrate the Idea Manager dashboard to Next Experience.
  • Migrate the PMO dashboard to Next Experience.
  • Migrate the Strategic Spend Tracking for PPM dashboard to Next Experience.

See Explore Project Portfolio Management for more information.

New in the Washington DC release

Enhanced project planning and management
Create and manage cost plans by using the new Project Workspace. For more information, see the Project Workspace release notes.
New experience to view and manage resource allocations
Experience the next level of Resource Management in the ServiceNow® Resource Management Workspace application, which provides resource managers with an exclusive, centralized workspace to quickly view the allocated, approved, or pending work of your resources and manage resource allocation requests. Filter the work requests to identify a priority.
Migrate resource plans and operational resource plans to attribute-based resource assignments
Migrate the resource plans of your projects and demands to attribute-based resource assignments and work on resource allocations using Project Workspace.
Migrate cost plans to attribute-based costs plans
Migrate cost plans to attribute-based costs plans for your projects and demands while migrating resource plans to attribute-based resource assignments to manage your projects and demands in Next Experience using Project Workspace.
Generate labor costs for epics
Generate labor costs based on the resource assignments for epics.
Migrate financial baselines to Next Experience
Migrate the financial baselines of your projects or demands to Next Experience and capture the actual expenses recorded using the Classic UI.
Next Experience support for Strategic Spend Tracking for PPM dashboard

Visualize the costs and analyze the total expenses for your organization’s strategies and goals using the Next Experience user interface in the Strategic Spend Tracking for PPM dashboard.

When you upgrade Strategic Spend Tracking for PPM to v1.1.0, the dashboard is automatically migrated to the Next Experience UI. You can access the new dashboard by navigating to All > Strategic Spend Tracking for PPM > Analytics. For more information on the Next Experience user interface, see Next Experience UI.

Migrate Idea Manager dashboard to Next Experience
Generate a report on idea metrics, trends, and categories using the Next Experience user interface in the Idea Manager dashboard.
Migrate PMO dashboard to Next Experience
Track project budgets, expenses, and status using the Next Experience user interface in the PMO dashboard.

Activation information

Project Portfolio Management is available with activation of the PPM Standard (com.snc.financial_planning_pmo) plugin. For more information on activation, see Activate PPM Standard (Project Portfolio Management).

Install Strategic Spend Tracking for PPM by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.

Related ServiceNow applications and features

Project Workspace
The Project Workspace application provides an interactive UI to enable project managers to define, plan, track, and monitor projects from a single location. Create and manage risks, issues, decisions, actions, and request changes (RIDAC) in one central location (RIDAC page) in Project Workspace.