Lay the Strategic Foundations of Your Applications Team
Develop an applications strategy aligned with organizational expectations.
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Please note that the content on this page is retired. This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.A poorly developed applications strategy can lead to:
- Applications teams that are disengaged with your drivers and will be blockers to your initiatives.
- Stakeholders who have not bought into your proposed strategy, leading to their reluctance to fund your initiatives.
- Lost of organizational creditability that can risk your tenure.
An application strategy tightly aligned with organizational expectations can:
- Improve the relationship and communication between stakeholders and applications teams.
- Build organizational buy-in for key strategic initiatives which can ease implementation.
- Strengthen your credibility with your stakeholders and applications team.
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Module 1: Get to Know Your Team
The Purpose
- Understand the expectations, structure, and dynamics of your applications team.
- Review your team’s current capacity.
- Gauge the team’s effectiveness to execute their operating model.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Clear understanding of the current responsibilities and accountabilities of your teams.
- Identification of improvement opportunities based on your team’s performance.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Define your team’s role and responsibilities. |
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| 1.2 | Understand your team’s application and project portfolios. |
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| 1.3 | Understand your team’s values and expectations. |
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| 1.4 | Gauge your team’s ability to execute your operating model. |
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Module 2: Get to Know Your Stakeholders
The Purpose
- Understand the expectations of stakeholders.
- Review the services stakeholders consume to support their applications.
- Gauge stakeholder satisfaction of the services and applications your team provides and supports.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Grounded understanding of the drivers and motivators of stakeholders that teams should accommodate.
- Identification of improvement opportunities that will increase the value your team delivers to stakeholders.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Understand your stakeholders and applications services. |
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| 2.2 | Define stakeholder expectations. |
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| 2.3 | Gauge stakeholder satisfaction of applications services and portfolio. |
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Module 3: Develop Your Applications Strategy
The Purpose
- Align and consolidate a single set of applications expectations.
- Develop key initiatives to alleviate current pain points and exploit existing opportunities to deliver new value.
- Create an achievable roadmap that is aligned to organizational priorities and accommodate existing constraints.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Applications team and stakeholders are aligned on the core focus of the applications department.
- Initiatives to address the high priority issues and opportunities.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Define your applications expectations. |
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| 3.2 | Investigate your diagnostic results. |
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| 3.3 | Envision your future state. |
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| 3.4 | Create a tactical plan to achieve your future state. |
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| 3.5 | Finalize your applications strategy. |
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