Discover Your Applications
Most application strategies fail. Arm yourself with the necessary information and team structure for a successful application portfolio strategy.
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Continuing with low visibility into the portfolio leaves you:
- Unaware of inefficient spending
- Exposed to undocumented and unmitigated risk
- Unable to make timely and informed strategic decisions on your applications and the business processes they support
Discovery and aligning your applications to your capabilities gives you:
- The defined business language capabilities of your applications
- Awareness of the redundancies and shadow IT throughout your portfolio
- Insights into technology gaps or areas where applications are insufficiently supporting the business
- The foundation to build an application portfolio strategy and management practice
Module 1: Lay the Foundations of Your Strategy
The Purpose
Build the foundations to launch an application portfolio strategy and ongoing application portfolio management practice.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Establish a common definition of “application”
- Define IT and business goals for the application portfolio
- Assign roles and responsibilities
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Introduction to the project. |
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| 1.2 | Define application. |
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| 1.3 | Identify motivations and goals. |
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| 1.4 | Present a best-practice application portfolio roadmap process. |
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| 1.5 | Plan iterations and review roles and responsibilities. |
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Module 2: Use Application-Capability Mapping
The Purpose
Use application-capability mapping to expose and collect vital information on your applications.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Uncover shadow IT
- Reveal redundancies
- Align applications and capabilities
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Map business capabilities for your selected business unit. |
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| 2.2 | Add applications to the capability map. |
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| 2.3 | Define application capabilities. |
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| 2.4 | Review redundancies, gaps, and shadow IT applications. |
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| 2.5 | Repeat business capability mapping process for second business unit. |
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Module 3: Establish Your Discovery Practice
The Purpose
Capture the results of application-capability mapping in a detailed inventory to create a single source of truth on your portfolio. Build the action plan to carry out the rest of your application portfolio strategy.
Key Benefits Achieved
- List of application SMEs
- List of application attributes
- The plan to complete application discovery and the application portfolio strategy
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Collect basic information for applications. |
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| 3.2 | Identify the lifecycle stage of your applications. |
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| 3.3 | Determine next iterations. |
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| 3.4 | Discuss future steps. |
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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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