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AI on Your Terms: How ValueOps Balances Innovation and Control

Written by Ciara Turner | Sep 24, 2025 9:00:00 AM

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, from predictive analytics to natural language assistants, promising to change the way organizations deliver projects, manage portfolios, and align strategy. With every promise comes a concern: How much control are you giving up when you adopt AI?

For many PMOs, IT leaders, and portfolio managers, the fear isn’t whether AI can help. It’s whether AI can be trusted. That’s where Broadcom’s ValueOps suite (Clarity, Rally, and ConnectALL) takes a different approach. AI is built to be configurable, transparent, and always under your organization’s control.

At Winmill PPM, we have helped hundreds of organizations successfully implement and adapt ValueOps solutions. In our experience, AI delivers the most value when paired with clear governance and practical adoption strategies.

The Double-Edged Sword of AI in the Enterprise

AI adoption often sparks both excitement and hesitation. It can bring sharper forecasting, earlier risk detection, and faster decisions across disconnected teams. At the same time, leaders worry about compliance, security, and whether AI tools are becoming too much of a “black box.”

The reality is that innovation and governance must go hand in hand. Organizations need the ability to explore AI where it adds value while maintaining safeguards where risk is highest.

ValueOps: Innovation Without Losing Control

ValueOps recognizes that every organization has different needs, regulations, and comfort levels with AI. Its approach emphasizes choice:

  • Configurable Features: Enable only the AI tools that serve your goals, from forecasting to roadmap modeling.
  • Governance Built In: Restrict or disable features at the system or role level to align with compliance frameworks.
  • Transparency for Trust: Audit trails and clear admin controls ensure you always know what AI is doing and why.

The message is simple: you stay in control while AI works on your terms. 

AI in Action Across ValueOps

AI is already making an impact across the ValueOps ecosystem. It appears in different forms depending on whether you are planning, executing, or integrating work, but the theme is consistent: intelligence combined with choice.

Planning and Forecasting
Predictive models help leaders understand future resource needs, identify capacity gaps, and run “what-if” scenarios before making commitments. This makes it easier to answer leadership’s toughest questions: What happens if priorities shift? What if budgets change? Which trade-offs make the most sense?

Execution and Prioritization
Agile teams often face endless backlogs and conflicting priorities. AI-assisted insights can weigh dependencies, velocity, and business impact to suggest a more balanced order of work. The result is less manual debate and a backlog that better reflects both capacity and strategic goals.

Integration and Visibility
Modern enterprises rely on many tools. AI helps reconcile and connect data across platforms, reducing duplicate entries and creating a single, trustworthy view of performance. That integrated perspective allows teams and executives to act with more confidence and less second-guessing.

This adaptability means AI can scale at the pace that works for your environment, whether you are experimenting with a single capability or deploying intelligence across your enterprise.

Governance Built In

For industries where compliance and transparency are non-negotiable, control is as important as innovation. ValueOps allows administrators to:

  • Decide which AI features to enable
  • Restrict or limit capabilities by role or system level
  • Maintain audit trails and data visibility for accountability

Beyond these technical controls, governance also hinges on adoption. Clear communication, role-based permissions, and audit visibility enable organizations to demonstrate compliance while building trust with end-users. AI remains a tool that supports your governance framework, rather than a force that disrupts it.

Why It Matters

AI is not all or nothing. Some organizations want to accelerate adoption, while others need to take cautious steps because of regulations or internal culture. ValueOps meets both needs by letting you choose the balance.

Winmill PPM has seen this play out across industries. The organizations that thrive with AI are those that adopt a phased approach: start small, establish governance, and then expand where the business case is strongest. This adaptability fosters trust with executives, enhances buy-in among teams, and paves the way for responsible growth.

Your Next Step

AI can transform the way portfolios, projects, and teams operate. With ValueOps, and Winmill PPM as your partner, you can take advantage of those benefits while maintaining control every step of the way.

Register for the webinar to see AI in ValueOps firsthand and learn how to configure features for your organization.

Or, schedule a personalized session with Winmill to explore how AI can fit into your unique environment.