Helping portcos use Plandek’s technology delivery metrics platform to improve R&D ROI
Helping portcos use Plandek’s technology delivery metrics platform to improve R&D ROI
Hg Capital is one of the largest and most successful PE firms in the world with over $40bn under management. Hg focuses on software and services businesses and its objective is to maximise organic growth over typical hold periods of five years.
Plandek works closely with Stuart Pearce, the Portfolio CTO at Hg. It is Stuart’s responsibility to help Hg’s portfolio companies improve their tech-enabled value creation – by improving the ROI of technology (R&D) investment.
“We are here to help our portfolio companies accelerate their value delivery. The effectiveness of their technology delivery is a key piece of that jigsaw. Plandek enables our portcos to track and drive their R&D ROI, as part of their broader value creation approach.” – Stuart Pearce, Portfolio CTO Hg Capital
Stuart is very careful to respect the ‘sovereignty’ of each portfolio company, and his role is only to help facilitate best practices. The responsibility for strategy and execution remains firmly within the companies themselves.
Plandek is sponsored by the CTO within each portco. It is very easy to set up (integrating seamlessly to the underlying DevOps toolsets) and provides a ‘balanced scorecard’ of metrics to track and drive the effectiveness of the software delivery capability and related ‘Agile DevOps maturity’.
Plandek provides visibility and key technology KPIs for technology leadership, as well as actionable insights (via customisable dashboards) for all the key players within a tech delivery capability itself – from Team Leads, to Delivery Managers, Product Managers and Engineering and DevOps professionals.
Pearce therefore finds Plandek to be an ideal metrics tool to recommend to portco CTOs so that ‘everyone is happy’.
As Pearce comments: “Plandek is not imposed on portcos, rather it is voluntarily adopted by those CTOs and teams looking to track and drive their tech delivery effectiveness via improved metrics and analytics.”
And Matt Baxter, CTO of Caseware (a leading North American fintech within the Hg portfolio) adds: “Stuart works in an advisory capacity for us and Plandek is a great example of this productive relationship in action. We have implemented the Plandek analytics platform and it now underpins our focus on value delivery within technology at Caseware”.
Plandek helps accelerate technology value delivery in key ways:
Enabling portco technology delivery teams to become more data-led is an essential step in optimising technology value delivery.
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