Visualize Your Application Portfolio Strategy With a Business-Value Driven Roadmap
Visualize Your Application Portfolio Strategy With a Business-Value Driven Roadmap
Do more than maintain your application portfolio. Rationalize your applications with a roadmap that propels the business forward.
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Without a roadmap or the best practices to building a roadmap, your application portfolio can be:
Misunderstood by the business, IT, and even your application’s team.
Misaligned between the IT the business, and fail to meet business objectives.
Lack the relevant information necessary to make critical decisions with your applications.
When applying an in-depth approach to building a portfolio strategy with application rationalization and business value measurement, your roadmap project can allow you to:
Leave behind assumptions and emotions, by applying traceable, measurable and business aligned metrics to evaluate and manage your applications.
Discover critical information about your applications, and provide many opportunities for savings and enhancements.
Extend past merely supporting the business, and propel the business forward.
Module 1: Determine Business Value Alignment
The Purpose
Align objectives and definitions of value with the business.
Key Benefits Achieved
Aligned objectives and goals for your project.
Your organization’s prioritization of different types of business value.
Activities:
Outputs:
1.1
Define “application” in your organization.
Definition of “application”
1.2
Identify your motivations and goals for your application roadmap.
Goals for your application roadmap
1.3
Brainstorm the different sources of business value.
Understanding of different sources of business value
1.4
Define and weigh value drivers for applications
Weights for value drivers of categories of business value
Module 2: Select Scope and Gather Information
The Purpose
Narrow down your scope of the project to address the biggest wins first.
Begin collecting information for your application rationalization initiative.
Key Benefits Achieved
Narrowed scope.
Collection of the basic information around your applications.
Activities:
Outputs:
2.1
Review APA diagnostic and narrow the scope of your roadmap project.
Narrowed list of applications
2.2
Gather basic application information.
Basic information of your applications
2.3
Identify the lifecycle stage of your applications.
Lifecycle stage for each application
2.4
Understand the cost associated with your applications.
TCO for your applications
Module 3: Perform Business Value Assessment
The Purpose
Establish the metrics for business value.
Determine which applications require corrective action.
Key Benefits Achieved
A standardized process for measuring and evaluating your applications with business-value metrics.
A further prioritized scope of which applications require corrective action.
Activities:
Outputs:
3.1
Stockpile business value metrics.
A comprehensive list of business value metrics.
3.2
Determine the current business value of your applications.
Business Value Assessment
3.3
Review business value assessment.
Updated status of your applications
Module 4: Complete Disposition Assessment
The Purpose
Align current applications to business capabilities.
Finish your application rationalization initiative and determine the best course of action.
Key Benefits Achieved
A rationalized set of applications.
Determined action for your applications.
Activities:
Outputs:
4.1
Application capability maps.
Level-1 Capability Maps and Application Capability Maps
4.2
Final considerations and disposition review.
Recommended action plans for your applications
4.3
Determine and prioritize dispositions.
High-level plan for your applications.
Module 5: Build Your Application Portfolio Strategy
The Purpose
Visualize your key decisions and strategy.
Build the material to present to stakeholders.
Key Benefits Achieved
A visualized application portfolio strategy.
Activities:
Outputs:
5.1
Build project timeline and build roadmap.
Timeline for you applications' action plans
5.2
Complete retrospective and next steps.
Considerations for your next iteration
5.3
Create presentation.
Customized presentation to showcase strategy to stakeholders
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Onsite 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 onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
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