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Diebold Nixdorf – Portfolio management and regular project budget planning/control with Jira

Excel was the project controlling tool used by Diebold Nixdorf until recently, but it was showing increasing weaknesses: “With seven locations, the processes in monthly budget forecasting became less accurate and the quality of the content fluctuated. Both the project managers and the PMOs that evaluate the projects all had to access it at the same time. Excel was not suitable for this,” explains Steffen Lechte, describing the initial situation. They wanted more transparency and control during the forecasting phases so that any potential correction effort could be kept within limits. Based on these points, Lechte specified the requirements for better collaboration across different time zones: mappable real-time status of forecasts, integration of standardized workflows, display of change history, transfer of structures to the following year, and support for multi-user access. Since there was already successful collaboration with catworkx regarding Jira in other areas of the company, it was clear to the IT colleagues that this would now be expanded. After a test implementation with Jira, it quickly became clear how many possibilities this tool offered for mapping both portfolio planning and forecasting.

" It was very clearly and transparently described which decisions I have to make and when and what the scope for this is. The catworkx team's good overview was not only very helpful to me in terms of time."

Steffen Lechte

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Centrally controlled project portfolio management at Wienerberger with Jira software and Teamworkx Cloud Hosted

Wienerberger is a leading international and globally active provider of building materials and infrastructure solutions. The company is the largest brick producer worldwide, market leader in clay roof tiles and pipe systems in Europe, and in concrete paving stones in Central-Eastern Europe. Facing an enormous transformation and shaped by the approach “Shift from Projects to Products”, the IT began to reorient itself from 2019. The aim was to move away from classic IT support and position itself as a competent IT business partner for the internal business units, not only processing tickets but also providing solutions. Under the leadership of Manfred Heger, Head of IT Strategy, Innovation & Projects at Wienerberger, the approach of a product development concept was pursued and implemented with the support of catworkx.