Architecture & Strategy

Build a Better Product Owner

Strengthen the product owner role in your organization by focusing on core capabilities and proper alignment.

Lay the Strategic Foundations of Your Applications Team

Develop an applications strategy aligned with organizational expectations.

Contains: 6 PowerPoints, and 1 Excel Tool

Application Portfolio Management Foundations

Ensure your application portfolio delivers the best possible return on investment.

Build an Application Rationalization Framework

Manage your application portfolio to minimize risk and maximize value.

Enable Organization-Wide Collaboration by Scaling Agile

Execute a disciplined approach to rolling out Agile methods in the organization.

Contains: 7 PowerPoints

Extend Agile Practices Beyond IT

Further the benefits of Agile by extending a scaled Agile framework to the business.

Integrate Portfolios to Create Exceptional Customer Value

Bring your project, product, and application portfolios together; bring your teams together.

Automate Your Software Delivery Lifecycle

Optimize your SDLC to drive quality, throughput, and recover capacity.

Contains: 1 PowerPoint, 3 Word Documents, 1 Excel Tool, and 1 PDF Document

Build Your BizDevOps Playbook

Embrace a team sport culture built around continuous business-IT collaboration to deliver great products.

Contains: 4 PowerPoints, and 1 Word Document

Modernize Your Applications

Continuously modernize – today’s modern application is tomorrow’s shelfware.

Contains: 6 PowerPoints

Embrace Business-Managed Applications

Empower the business to implement their own applications with a trusted business-IT relationship.

Contains: 6 PowerPoints

Build an Application Department Strategy

Delivering value starts with embracing what your department can do.

Contains: 6 PowerPoints, and 1 Excel Tool

Review Your Application Strategy

Ensure your applications enable your business strategy.

Contains: 4 PowerPoints, and 1 Excel Tool

Drive Web Traffic with Search Engine Optimization

Future customers are out there searching for you.

Contains: 1 PowerPoint, and 1 Excel Tool

Prepare Your Application for PaaS

Capitalize on PaaS opportunities by taking a value-driven design approach.

Contains: 4 PowerPoints, and 2 Excel Tools

Build a Value Measurement Framework

Focus product delivery on business value–driven outcomes.

2020 Applications Priorities Report

Five initiatives to help applications professionals stay on the ball.

Applications Priorities 2022

Five initiatives that help applications leaders focus their efforts.

Make the Case for Product Delivery

Align your organization on the practices to deliver what matters most.

Satisfy Digital End Users With Low- and No-Code

Extend IT, automation, and digital capabilities to the business with the right tools, good governance, and trusted organizational relationships.

Contains: 2 PowerPoints

Select a Sourcing Partner for Your Development Team

Choosing the right partner to enable your firm to maximize the value realized from your sourcing strategy.

Applications Priorities 2023

Five initiatives that help applications leaders strengthen their application portfolio.