Build an Application Rationalization Framework
Manage your application portfolio to minimize risk and maximize value.
Onsite Workshop
Neglecting your portfolio leads to:
- Unnecessary and high maintenance costs.
- Misdirection between IT and the business.
- Risks that cause more significant harm and cost to the business.
Rationalizing your application and showcasing their future direction:
- Reduces cost, risk, and complexity facing both IT and the business.
- Keeps stakeholders aligned with and informed on their applications.
- Ensures IT leaders maintain their role as drivers of the business.
Module 1: Lay Your Foundations
The Purpose
- Define the goals, scope, roles, and responsibilities of your rationalization effort.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Defined motivations, long and short-term goals, and metrics for your rationalization effort.
- Definition of application.
- Defined roles and responsibilities for your rationalization effort.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Define motivations and goals for rationalization. |
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| 1.2 | Define “application.” |
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| 1.3 | Identify team and responsivities. |
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| 1.4 | Adapt target dispositions. |
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| 1.5 | Initiate Application Rationalization Framework (ARF). |
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Module 2: Assess Business Value
The Purpose
- Review and adapt Info-Tech’s methodology and toolset.
- Assess business value of applications.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Tailored application rationalization framework
- Defined business value drivers
- Business value scores for applications
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Review Application Rationalization Tool. |
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| 2.2 | Review focused apps, capabilities, and areas of functionality overlap. |
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| 2.3 | Define business value drivers. |
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| 2.4 | Determine the value score of focused apps. |
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Module 3: Gather Application Information
The Purpose
- Continue to review and adapt Info-Tech’s methodology and toolset.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Tailored application rationalization framework
- TCO values for applications
- Technical health review of applications
- Recommended dispositions for applications
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Determine TCO for focused apps. |
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| 3.2 | Determine technical health of focused apps. |
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| 3.3 | Review APA. |
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| 3.4 | Review recommended dispositions. |
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| 3.5 | Perform retrospective of assessments and adapt ARF. |
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Module 4: Gather, Assess, and Select Dispositions
The Purpose
- Review and perform high-level prioritization of dispositions.
- Build a roadmap for dispositions.
- Determine ongoing rationalization and application portfolio management activities.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Application Portfolio Roadmap
- Prioritized Dispositions
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Determine dispositions. |
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| 4.2 | Prioritize dispositions. |
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| 4.3 | Initiate portfolio roadmap. |
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| 4.4 | Build an action plan for next iterations and ongoing activities. |
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| 4.5 | Finalize ARF. |
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