In many organizations, program management has become synonymous with the manual roll-up. We’ve all seen it: project managers spending six hours a week building a single PowerPoint slide to justify their existence, only for that slide to be buried in a 100-page deck. By the time the leadership team sees the data, it’s already a week old. This isn’t just a waste of time. It’s a symptom of siloed data. When information is trapped in disparate systems like SharePoint, Jira, or technical documentation, visibility becomes a challenge rather than a standard. Given this, many leaders are asking a key question: How can I stop using manual slide decks for program management?
True program management is about more than just summarizing work. It is a funded book of effort designed to deliver specific outcomes. Whether you are navigating an SSO rollout or responding to a complex regulatory mandate, the challenge is the same: how do you pull pieces of work from across different investments into one singular location.
What is the modern approach to program management and reporting? Fundamentally, it is about automating the aggregation of data and eliminating manual roll ups, which is exactly what ValueOps by Broadcom solutions enable.
Here are just a few of the ways Broadcom solutions can help:
Automatic aggregation: Work already being done in Clarity by Broadcom is automatically pulled into a program hierarchy, eliminating secondary effort.
Cross-functional visibility: In one view, you can see how features developed by one team align with another team’s deliverables, along with a marketing group's risk mitigation tasks.
Real-time insights: Instead of a static slide, you get a live look into the risk register and deliverable status.
To learn more, be sure to read a study from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services that reveals how you can connect the data that fuels real-time, value-generating insights.
The future of program management isn't about more reporting. It’s about more doing. By leveraging tools like ConnectALL™ by Broadcom to ingest data from third-party tools, we can eliminate manual overhead and focus on what actually matters: delivering programs.
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A: In many organizations, data is trapped in siloed systems like SharePoint, Jira, and technical documentation. This often results in project managers spending hours manually building slide decks. What’s worse is that by the time leadership actually reviews these reports, the information is out of date.
A: True program management is defined as a funded book of effort designed to deliver specific outcomes. It shifts the challenge toward pulling disparate pieces of work from various investments into a single, centralized location.
A: By automatically pulling work already being done in Clarity by Broadcom into a program hierarchy, organizations eliminate secondary reporting efforts. This provides real-time insights into risk registers and deliverable status, giving teams one view for tracking how features from different groups align. Plus, this eliminates manual reporting overhead, allowing program managers to focus less on reporting and more on delivering the program.