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Application Portfolio Management Foundations

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

Organizations consider application oversight a low priority and app portfolio knowledge is poor:

  • No dedicated or centralized effort to manage the app portfolio means no single source of truth is available to support informed decision making.
  • Organizations acquire more applications over time, creating redundancy, waste, and the need for additional support.
  • Organizations are more vulnerable to changing markets. Flexibility and growth are compromised when applications are unadaptable or cannot scale.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

  • You cannot outsource application strategy.
  • Modern software options have lessened the need for organizations to have robust in-house application management capabilities. But your applications’ future and governance of the portfolio still require centralized oversight to ensure the best overall return on investment.
  • Application portfolio management is the mechanism to ensure that the applications in your enterprise are delivering value and support for your value streams and business capabilities. Understanding value, satisfaction, technical health, and total cost of ownership are critical to digital transformation, modernization, and roadmaps.

Impact and Result

Build an APM program that is actionable and fit for size:

  • Understand your current state, needs, and goals for your application portfolio management.
  • Create an application and platform inventory that is built for better decision making.
  • Rationalize your apps with business priorities and communicate risk in operational terms.
  • Create a roadmap that improves communication between those who own, manage, and support your applications.

Application Portfolio Management Foundations Research & Tools

1. Application Portfolio Management Foundations Deck – A guide that helps you establish your core application inventory, simplified rationalization, redundancy comparison, and modernization roadmap.

Enterprises have more applications than they need and rarely apply oversight to monitor the health, cost, and relative value of applications to ensure efficiency and minimal risk. This blueprint will help you build a streamlined application portfolio management process.

2. Application Portfolio Management Diagnostic Tool – A tool that assesses your current application portfolio.

Visibility into your application portfolio and APM practices will help inform and guide your next steps.

3. Application Portfolio Management Foundations Playbook – A template that builds your application portfolio management playbook.

Capture your APM roles and responsibilities and build a repeatable process.

4. Application Portfolio Management Snapshot and Foundations Tool – A tool that stores application information and allows you to execute rationalization and build a portfolio roadmap.

This tool is the central hub for the activities within Application Portfolio Management Foundations.


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Workshop: Application Portfolio Management Foundations

Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.

Module 1: Lay Your Foundations

The Purpose

  • Work with key corporate stakeholders to come to a shared understanding of the benefits and aspects of application portfolio management.

Key Benefits Achieved

  • Establish the goals of APM.
  • Set the scope of APM responsibilities.
  • Establish business priorities for the application portfolio.

Activities

Outputs

1.1

Define goals and metrics.

  • Set short- and long-term goals and metrics.
1.2

Define application categories.

  • Set the scope for applications.
1.3

Determine steps and roles.

  • Set the scope for the APM process.
1.4

Weight value drivers.

  • Defined business value drivers.

Module 2: Improve Your Inventory

The Purpose

  • Gather information on your applications to build a detailed inventory and identify areas of redundancy.

Key Benefits Achieved

  • Populated inventory based on your and your team’s current knowledge.
  • Understanding of outstanding data and a plan to collect it.

Activities

Outputs

2.1

Populate inventory.

  • Initial application inventory
2.2

Assign business capabilities.

  • List of areas of redundancy
2.3

Review outstanding data.

  • Plan to collect outstanding data

Module 3: Gather Application Information

The Purpose

Work with the application subject matter experts to collect and compile data points and determine the appropriate disposition for your apps.

Key Benefits Achieved

  • Dispositions for individual applications
  • Application rationalization framework

Activities

Outputs

3.1

Assess business value.

  • Business value score for individual applications
3.2

Assess end-user perspective.

  • End-user satisfaction scores for individual applications
3.3

Assess TCO.

  • TCO score for individual applications
3.4

Assess technical health.

  • Technical health scores for individual applications
3.5

Assess redundancies.

  • Feature-level assessment of redundant applications
3.6

Determine dispositions.

  • Assigned dispositions for individual applications

Module 4: Gather, Assess, and Select Dispositions

The Purpose

  • Work with application delivery specialists to determine the strategic plans for your apps and place these in your portfolio roadmap.

Key Benefits Achieved

  • Prioritized initiatives
  • Initial application portfolio roadmap
  • Ongoing structure of APM

Activities

Outputs

4.1

Prioritize initiatives

  • Prioritized new potential initiatives.
4.2

Populate roadmap.

  • Built an initial portfolio roadmap.
4.3

Determine ongoing APM cadence.

  • Established an ongoing cadence of APM activities.
4.4

Build APM action plan.

  • Built an action plan to complete APM activities.

Application Portfolio Management Foundations

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

Analyst Perspective

You can’t outsource accountability.

Many lack visibility into their overall application portfolio, focusing instead on individual projects or application development. Inevitably, application sprawl creates process and data disparities, redundant applications, and duplication of resources and stands as a significant barrier to business agility and responsiveness. The shift from strategic investment to application maintenance creates an unnecessary constraint on innovation and value delivery.

With the rise and convenience of SAAS solutions, IT has an increasing need to discover and support all applications in the organization. Unmanaged and unsanctioned applications can lead to increased reputational risk. What you don’t know WILL hurt you.

You can outsource development, you can even outsource maintenance, but you cannot outsource accountability for the portfolio. Organizations need a holistic dashboard of application performance and dispositions to help guide and inform planning and investment discussions. Application portfolio management (APM) can’t tell you why something is broken or how to fix it, but it is an important tool to determine if an application’s value and performance are up to your standards and can help meet your future goals.

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Hans Eckman
Principal Research Director
Info-Tech Research Group


Is this research right for you?

Research Navigation

Managing your application portfolio is essential regardless of its size or whether your software is purchased or developed in house. Each organization must have some degree of application portfolio management to ensure that applications deliver value efficiently and that their risk or gradual decline in technical health is appropriately limited.

Your APM goals

If this describes your primary goal(s)

  • We are building a business case to determine where and if APM is needed now.
  • We want to understand how well supported are our business capabilities, departments, or core functions by our current applications.
  • We want to start our APM program with our core or critical applications.
  • We want to build our APM inventory for less than 150 applications (division, department, operating unit, government, small enterprise, etc.).
  • We want to start simple with a quick win for our 150 most important applications.
  • We want to start with an APM pilot before committing to an enterprise APM program.
  • We need to rationalize potentially redundant and underperforming applications to determine which to keep, replace, or retire.
  • We want to start enterprise APM, with up to 150 critical applications.
  • We want to collect and analyze detailed information about our applications.
  • We need tools to help us calculate total cost of ownership (TCO) and value.
  • We want to customize our APM journey and rationalization.
  • We want to build a formal communication strategy for our APM program.

Executive Summary

Your Challenge

Common Obstacles

Info-Tech’s Approach

  • Organizations consider application oversight a low priority and app portfolio knowledge is poor.
  • No dedicated or centralized effort to manage the app portfolio means no single source of truth is available to support informed decision making.
  • Organizations acquire more applications over time, creating redundancy, waste, and the need for additional support.
  • Organizations are more vulnerable to changing markets. Flexibility and growth are compromised when applications are unadaptable or cannot scale.
  • APM implies taking a holistic approach and compiling multiple priorities and perspectives.
  • Organizations have limited time to act strategically or proactively and need to be succinct.
  • Uncertainties on business value prevent IT from successfully advising software decision making.
  • IT knows its technical debt but struggles to get the business to act on technical risks.
  • Attempts at exposing these problems rarely gain buy-in and discourage the push for improvement.
  • Think low priority over no priority.
  • Integrate these tasks into your mixed workload.
  • Create an inventory built for better decision making.
  • Rationalize your apps in accordance with business priorities and communicate risks on their terms.
  • Create a roadmap that improves communication between those who own, manage, and support an application.
  • Build your APM process fit for size.

Info-Tech Insight: You can’t outsource strategy.

Modern software options have decreased the need for organizations to have robust in-house application management capabilities. Your applications’ future and governance of the portfolio still require a centralized IT oversight to ensure the best return on investment.

The top IT challenges for SE come from app management

#1 challenge small enterprise owners face in their use of technology:

Taking appropriate security precautions

24%

The costs of needed upgrades to technology

17%

The time it takes to fix problems

17%

The cost of maintaining technology

14%

Lack of expertise

9%

Breaks in service

7%
Source: National Small Business Association, 2019

Having more applications than an organization needs means unnecessarily high costs and additional burden on the teams who support the applications. Especially in the case of small enterprises, this is added pressure the IT team cannot afford.

A poorly maintained portfolio will eventually hurt the business more than it hurts IT.

Legacy systems, complex environments, or anything that leads to a portfolio that can’t adapt to changing business needs will eventually become a barrier to business growth and accomplishing objectives. Often the blame is put on the IT department.

56%

of small businesses cited inflexible technology as a barrier to growth

Source: Salesforce as quoted by Tech Republic, 2019

A hidden and inefficient application portfolio is the root cause of so many pains experienced by both IT and the business.

  • Demand/Capacity Imbalance
  • Overspending
  • Security and Business Continuity Risk
  • Delays in Delivery
  • Barriers to Growth

APM comes at a justified cost

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The benefits of APM

APM identifies areas where you can reduce core spending and reinvest in innovation initiatives.

Other benefits can include:

  • Fewer redundancies
  • Less risk
  • Less complexity
  • Improved processes
  • Flexibility
  • Scalability

APM allows you to better understand and set the direction of your portfolio

Application Inventory

The artifact that documents and informs the business of your application portfolio.

Application Rationalization

The process of collecting information and assessing your applications to determine recommended dispositions.

Application Alignment

The process of revealing application information through interviewing stakeholders and aligning to business capabilities.

Application Roadmap

The artifact that showcases the strategic directions for your applications over a given timeline.

Application Portfolio Management (APM):

The ongoing practice of:

  • Providing visibility into applications across the organization.
  • Recommending corrections or enhancements to decision makers.
  • Aligning delivery teams on priority.
  • Showcasing the direction of applications to stakeholders.

Create a balanced approach to value delivery

Enterprise Agility and Value Realization

Product Lifecycle Management

Align your product and service improvement and execution to enterprise strategy and value realization in three key areas: defining your products and services, aligning product/service owners, and developing your product vision.

Product Delivery Lifecycle (Agile DevOps)

Enhance business agility by leveraging an Agile mindset and continuously improving your delivery throughput, quality, value realization, and adaptive governance.

Application Portfolio Management

Transform your application portfolio into a cohesive service catalog aligned to your business capabilities by discovering, rationalizing, and modernizing your applications while improving application maintenance, management, and reuse.

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Every organization experiences some degree of application sprawl

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Causes of Sprawl

  • Poor Lifecycle Management
  • Turnover & Lack of Knowledge Transfer
  • Siloed Business Units & Decentralized IT
  • Business-Managed IT
  • (Shadow IT)
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Problems With Sprawl

  • Redundancy and Inefficient Spending
  • Disparate Apps & Data
  • Obsolescence
  • Difficulties in Prioritizing Support
  • Barriers to Change & Growth

Application Sprawl:

Inefficiencies within your application portfolio are created by the gradual and non-strategic accumulation of applications.

You have more apps than you need.

Only 34% of software is rated as both IMPORTANT and EFFECTIVE by users.

Source: Info-Tech’s CIO Business Vision

Build your APM journey map

The image contains screenshots of diagrams that reviews building your APM journey map.

Application rationalization provides insight

Directionless portfolio of applications

Info-Tech’s Five Lens Model

Assigned dispositions for individual apps

The image contains a screenshot of an example of directionless portfolio of applications.

Application Alignment

Business Value

Technical Health

End-User Perspective

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Maintain: Keep the application but adjust its support structure.

Modernize: Create a new initiative to address an inadequacy.

Consolidate: Create a new initiative to reduce duplicate functionality.

Retire: Phase out the application.

Disposition: The intended strategic direction or implied course of action for an application.

How well do your apps support your core functions and teams?

How well are your apps aligned to value delivery?

Do your apps meet all IT quality standards and policies?

How well do your apps meet your end users’ needs?

What is the relative cost of ownership and operation of your apps?

Application rationalization requires the collection of several data points that represent these perspectives and act as the criteria for determining a disposition for each of your applications.

APM is an iterative and evergreen process

APM provides oversight and awareness of your application portfolio’s performance and support for your business operations and value delivery to all users and customers.

Determine Scope and categories Build your list of applications and capabilities Score each application based on your values Determine outcomes based on app scoring and support for capabilities

1. Lay Your Foundations

1.1 Assess the state of your current application portfolio.

1.2 Determine narrative.

1.3 Define goals and metrics.

1.4 Define application categories.

1.5 Determine APM steps and roles (SIPOC).

2. Improve Your Inventory

2.1 Populate your inventory.

2.2 Align to business capabilities.

*Repeat

3. Rationalize Your Apps

3.1 Assess business value.

3.2 Assess technical health.

3.3 Assess end-user perspective.

3.4 Assess total cost of ownership.

*Repeat

4. Populate Your Roadmap

4.1 Review APM Snapshot results.

4.2 Review APM Foundations results.

4.3 Determine dispositions.

4.4 Assess redundancies (optional).

4.5 Determine dispositions for redundant applications (optional).

4.6 Prioritize initiatives.

4.7 Determine ongoing cadence.

*Repeat

Repeat according to APM cadence and application changes

Executive Brief Case Study

INDUSTRY: Retail

SOURCE: Deloitte, 2017

Supermarket Company

The grocer was a smaller organization for the supermarket industry with a relatively low IT budget. While its portfolio consisted of a dozen applications, the organization still found it difficult to react to an evolving industry due to inflexible and overly complex legacy systems.

The IT manager found himself in a scenario where he knew the applications well but had little awareness of the business processes they supported. Application maintenance was purely in keeping things operational, with little consideration for a future business strategy.

As the business demanded more responsiveness to changes, the IT team needed to be able to react more efficiently and effectively while still securing the continuity of the business.

The IT manager found success by introducing APM and gaining a better understanding of the business use and future needs for the applications. The organization started small but then increased the scope over time to produce and develop techniques to aid the business in meeting strategic goals with applications.

Results

The IT manager gained credibility and trust within the organization. The organization was able to build a plan to move away from the legacy systems and create a portfolio more responsive to the dynamic needs of an evolving marketplace.

The application portfolio management initiative included the following components:

Train teams and stakeholders on APM

Model the core business processes

Collect application inventory

Assign APM responsibilities

Start small, then grow

Info-Tech’s application portfolio management methodology

1. Lay Your Foundations

2. Improve Your Inventory

3. Rationalize Your Apps

4. Populate Your Roadmap

Phase Activities

1.1 Assess your current application portfolio

1.2 Determine narrative

1.3 Define goals and metrics

1.4 Define application categories

1.5 Determine APM steps and roles

2.1 Populate your inventory

2.2 Align to business capabilities

3.1 Assess business value

3.2 Assess technical health

3.3 Assess end-user perspective

3.4 Assess total cost of ownership

4.1 Review APM Snapshot results

4.2 Review APM Foundations results

4.3 Determine dispositions

4.4 Assess redundancies (optional)

4.5 Determine dispositions for redundant applications (optional)

4.6 Prioritize initiatives

4.7 Determine ongoing APM cadence

Phase Outcomes

Work with the appropriate management stakeholders to:

  • Extract key business priorities.
  • Set your goals.
  • Define scope of APM effort.

Gather information on your own understanding of your applications to build a detailed inventory and identify areas of redundancy.

Work with application subject matter experts to collect and compile data points and determine the appropriate disposition for your apps.

Work with application delivery specialists to determine the strategic plans for your apps and place these in your portfolio roadmap.

Blueprint deliverables

Each step of this blueprint is accompanied by supporting deliverables to help you accomplish your goals.

Application Portfolio Management Foundations Playbook

Application Portfolio Management Snapshot and Foundations Tool

This template allows you to capture your APM roles and responsibilities and build a repeatable process.

This tool stores all relevant application information and allows you to assess your capability support, execute rationalization, and build a portfolio roadmap.

The image contains screenshots of the Application Portfolio Management Foundations Playbook. The image contains screenshots of the Application Portfolio Management Snapshot and Foundations Tool.

Key deliverable:

Blueprint Storyboard

This is the PowerPoint document you are viewing now. Follow this guide to understand APM, learn how to use the tools, and build a repeatable APM process that will be captured in your playbook.

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DIY Toolkit

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Consulting

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Diagnostics and consistent frameworks used throughout all four options

Guided Implementation

What does a typical GI for on this topic look like?

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4

Call #1: Establish goals and foundations for your APM practice.

Call #2:

Initiate inventory and determine data requirements.

Call #3:

Initiate rationalization with group of applications.

Call #4:

Review result of first iteration and perform retrospective.

Call #5:

Initiate your roadmap and determine your ongoing APM practice.

Note: The Guided Implementation will focus on a subset or group of applications depending on the state of your current APM inventory and available time. The goal is to use this first group to build your APM process and models to support your ongoing discovery, rationalization, and modernization efforts.

A Guided Implementation (GI) is a series of calls with an Info-Tech analyst to help implement our right-sized best practices in your organization. A typical GI, using our materials, is 3 to 6 calls over the course of 1 to 3 months.

Workshop Overview

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1. Lay Your Foundations

2. Improve Your Inventory

3. Rationalize Your Apps

4. Populate Your Roadmap

Post Workshop Steps

Activities

1.1 Assess your current
application portfolio

1.2 Determine narrative

1.3 Define goals and metrics

1.4 Define application categories

1.5 Determine APM steps and roles

2.1 Populate your inventory

2.2 Align to business capabilities

3.1 Assess business value

3.2 Assess technical health

3.3 Assess end-user perspective

3.4 Assess total cost of ownership

4.1 Review APM Snapshot results

4.2 Review APM Foundations results

4.3 Determine dispositions

4.4 Assess redundancies (optional)

4.5 Determine dispositions for redundant applications (optional)

4.6 Prioritize initiatives

4.7 Determine ongoing APM cadence

  • Complete in-progress deliverables from the previous four days.
  • Set up review time for workshop deliverables and to discuss the next steps.

Outcomes

Work with the appropriate management stakeholders to:

  1. Extract key business priorities
  2. Set your goals
  3. Agree on key terms and set the scope for your APM effort

Work with your applications team to:

  1. Build a detailed inventory
  2. Identify areas of redundancy

Work with the SMEs for a subset of applications to:

  1. Define your rationalization criteria, descriptions, and scoring
  2. Evaluate each application using rationalization criteria

Work with application delivery specialists to:

  1. Determine the appropriate disposition for your apps
  2. Build an initial application portfolio roadmap
  3. Establish an ongoing cadence of APM activities

Info-Tech analysts complete:

  1. Workshop report
  2. APM Snapshot and Foundations Toolset
  3. Action plan

Note: The workshop will focus on a subset or group of applications depending on the state of your current APM inventory and available time. The goal is to use this first group to build your APM process and models to support your ongoing discovery, rationalization, and modernization efforts.

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Guided Implementation 1: Lay your foundations
  • Call 1: Establish goals and foundations for your APM practice.

Guided Implementation 2: Improve your inventory
  • Call 1: Initiate inventory and determine data requirements.

Guided Implementation 3: Rationalize your applications
  • Call 1: Initiate rationalization with group of applications.
  • Call 2: Review result of first iteration and perform retrospective.

Guided Implementation 4: Populate your roadmap
  • Call 1: Initiate your roadmap and determine your ongoing APM practice.

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