Build a Business-Driven Application Roadmap Using an Agile Approach
Build a Business-Driven Application Roadmap Using an Agile Approach
Support your ongoing business objectives with a rationalized application portfolio while remaining aligned with your current and future technology needs.
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Without a holistic and accurate view of your application portfolio:
Low value applications will continuously gather unnecessary licensing and maintenance costs.
Application roadmaps are shortsighted and structured to only address current short-term needs.
Application dispositions won’t account for business dependencies and may not be practical to implement.
Following a well-defined and standardized application rationalized initiative in your application roadmap process can:
Ensure your stakeholders are bought into the roadmap and are up-to-date with current business and technical requirements.
Focus your dispositions and other portfolio enhancements with the most accurate information on specific domains.
Optimize the execution of the portfolio analysis and application roadmapping processes of other business domains using lessons learned from previous roadmap projects.
Module 1: Determine the Current State of Your Application Portfolio
The Purpose
Identify the enterprise applications that are currently being used and supported by your organization.
Assess the value and costs to keep each application in your portfolio.
Key Benefits Achieved
Understanding of current state of application portfolio.
Classification of enterprise applications based on maturity.
Clear breakdown of the costs required to support the application.
Activities:
Outputs:
1.1
Conduct an inventory collection of all enterprise applications.
Current portfolio of all enterprise applications
1.2
Document the lifecycle stage of each application being assessed.
Identification of lifecycle stages of each application
1.3
Document the costs of each application being assessed.
Costs to support, license, maintain, and update applications
Module 2: Determine Application Disposition
The Purpose
Identify the business processes that are supported by your applications.
Build your application capabilities maps and dispositions.
Identify the level of technical and functional support of each application.
Key Benefits Achieved
Validation of the alignment of enterprise applications to business domains and functions.
Selection of the appropriate dispositions based on your business needs, and functional and technical assessments.
Activities:
Outputs:
2.1
Determine business processes that assessed applications support.
Business functions and capabilities supported by enterprise applications
2.2
Build application capability maps that align with business processes.
Alignment of applications to your business capabilities with application capability maps
2.3
Determine application dispositions and the level of functional and technical support.
Identification of dispositions and the applications’ adequacy to support the business
Module 3: Conduct Impact Analysis
The Purpose
Assess the business and technical impact of each disposition.
State the urgency to implement each disposition.
Key Benefits Achieved
Clear definition of your prioritization factors: business value, technical complexity, and level of urgency.
Full understanding of the system components supporting your applications.
Activities:
Outputs:
3.1
Define and prioritize your application rationalization business value metrics.
Defined business value metrics
3.2
Create a current state systems-level diagram of the applications being assessed.
Current state diagram of the application system
3.3
See the technical complexity of each disposition by drawing your target state system-level diagram.
Target state diagram of the application system with dispositions implemented
3.4
Calculate Business Value and Technical Complexity scores.
Business value and technical complexity scores of each disposition
3.5
Determine the level of urgency to implement each disposition.
Level of urgency to implement each disposition
Module 4: Prioritize and Revise Your Application Roadmap
The Purpose
Prioritize your disposition implementations in order to build your application roadmap.
Make the necessary changes to your application’s lifecycle stages based on your prior analysis.
Determine how your roadmap will be communicated to executives.
Prepare for future application roadmapping in other business domains.
Key Benefits Achieved
Finalized and revised application roadmap that is accurate, practical, and aligned to business priorities.
Tailored document to effectively communicate with stakeholders.
List of next steps for roadmap initiatives in other business domains using lessons learned.
Activities:
Outputs:
4.1
Determine the priority of your disposition implementations.
Prioritization of disposition implementations
4.2
Review the lifecycle stage of relevant applications based on your impact and disposition analysis.
Revisions to applications’ lifecycle stages
4.3
Calculate the expected net benefits of your revised application roadmap.
Calculation of expected costs and benefits
4.4
Create your executive communication document.
Defined executive communication document structure
4.5
Review and optimize your application roadmap approach for your next business domain.
Next steps for future application roadmap initiatives
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