Application Portfolio Management Foundations
Ensure your application portfolio delivers the best possible return on investment.
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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.
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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: Lay Your Foundations
The Purpose
- Work with key corporate stakeholders to come to a shared understanding of the benefits and aspects of application portfolio management.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Establish the goals of APM.
- Set the scope of APM responsibilities.
- Establish business priorities for the application portfolio.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Assess your current application portfolio |
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| 1.2 | Determine narrative |
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| 1.3 | Define goals and metrics |
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| 1.4 | Define application categories |
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| 1.5 | Determine steps and roles |
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Module 2: Improve Your Inventory
The Purpose
- Gather information on your applications to build a detailed inventory and identify areas of redundancy.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Populated inventory based on your and your team’s current knowledge.
- Understanding of outstanding data and a plan to collect it.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Populate inventory |
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| 2.2 | Assign to business capabilities |
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Module 3: Rationalize Your Applications
The Purpose
Work with the application subject matter experts to collect and compile data points and determine the appropriate disposition for your apps.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Dispositions for individual applications
- Application rationalization framework
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Assess business value |
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| 3.2 | Assess technical health |
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| 3.3 | Assess end-user perspective |
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| 3.4 | Assess total cost of ownership |
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Module 4: Populate Your Roadmap
The Purpose
- Work with application delivery specialists to determine the strategic plans for your apps and place these in your portfolio roadmap.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Prioritized initiatives
- Initial application portfolio roadmap
- Ongoing structure of APM
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Review APM Snapshot results |
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| 4.2 | Review Rationalization results |
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| 4.3 | Determine dispositions |
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| 4.4 | Assess redundancies (optional) |
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| 4.5 | Determine dispositions for redundant applications (optional) |
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| 4.6 | Prioritize initiatives |
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| 4.7 | Determine ongoing cadence |
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