Build Your Applications Practice Strategy
Delivering value starts with embracing what your practice should be.
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Navigating today’s complexities, disruptions and distractions without an effective applications practice can lead to:
- Applications, processes, and systems are not generating the value and returns your stakeholders expect.
- Unnecessary risks and impediments challenge the organization from innovating, scaling, and maturing sustainably.
- Functional siloes that motivate misinterpreted and inconsistent adoption of quality standards and requirements.
An effective applications practice can:
- Align enterprise priorities with applications capabilities and portfolios to ensure all organizational decisions and initiatives support and maximize value delivery.
- Improve the overall quality of business operations and applications through guiding principles, policies, and frameworks.
- Come to a consenting practice vision and roadmap on how it can best support the organization ambitions, objectives, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
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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.
Book NowModule 1: Align the Role of Your Applications Practice
The Purpose
Key Benefits Achieved
- Identifying the attributes your applications practice will exhibit.
- Defining the role your applications practice will play in your context.
- Outlining principles that will guide your applications practice.
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| 1.1 | State the role of your practice |
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| 1.2 | List your guiding principles |
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Module 2: Build your value proposition
The Purpose
Key Benefits Achieved
- Recognizing the strategic priorities your practice is expected to address.
- Identifying the contributions your practice will provide to meet your strategic priorities.
- Outlining the value your practice promises to deliver through the services it offers.
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| 2.1 | Know your strategic priorities |
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| 2.2 | Reveal your practice contributions |
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Module 3: Design your target state
The Purpose
Key Benefits Achieved
- List of the services your applications practice will deliver.
- Selection of the delivery orientation(s) that best supports the organization.
- Discussion of the various industry good practices to consider in the target state.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Shortlist your practice services |
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| 3.2 | Select your delivery orientation |
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| 3.3 | Learn industry good practices |
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Module 4: Roadmap your practice
The Purpose
Key Benefits Achieved
- Defined objectives and metrics for your applications practice.
- Clarified scope of the applications practice including organizational coverage, application portfolio, and technical depth.
- Achievable applications practice implementation roadmap.
- Applications practice stakeholder communication plan.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Define your objectives and scope |
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| 4.2 | Build your roadmap and communication plan |
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