Identifying Portfolio Technology Domains is a process of evaluating a project, classifying it, and preparing to move it forward by answering the following questions:

  1. What problem is the project/technology attempting to solve?
  2. What is the high level approach used by the project/technology to solve the problem?
  3. What is the nature of the technology needed to ensure success of the project/technology?

By thinking through the technology required for the project, the determination on what types of expertise will need to be hired and what types of resources will need to be acquired will begin to become clearer.

Decision Point helps the process of Identifying Portfolio Technology domains by providing tools to build metrics for evaluating the project and views based on the maturity level of the project, but this process is largely an exercise in careful consideration of the classification the project/technology is most closely associated with and the adaptation of plans and future decisions to fit that classification.