Lay the Strategic Foundations of Your Applications Team
Develop an applications strategy aligned with organizational expectations.
Onsite Workshop
A poorly developed applications strategy can lead to:
- Applications teams that are disengaged with your drivers and will be blockers to your initiatives.
- Stakeholders who have not bought into your proposed strategy, leading to their reluctance to fund your initiatives.
- Lost of organizational creditability that can risk your tenure.
An application strategy tightly aligned with organizational expectations can:
- Improve the relationship and communication between stakeholders and applications teams.
- Build organizational buy-in for key strategic initiatives which can ease implementation.
- Strengthen your credibility with your stakeholders and applications team.
Module 1: Get to Know Your Team
The Purpose
- Understand the expectations, structure, and dynamics of your applications team.
- Review your team’s current capacity.
- Gauge the team’s effectiveness to execute their operating model.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Clear understanding of the current responsibilities and accountabilities of your teams.
- Identification of improvement opportunities based on your team’s performance.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Define your team’s role and responsibilities. |
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| 1.2 | Understand your team’s application and project portfolios. |
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| 1.3 | Understand your team’s values and expectations. |
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| 1.4 | Gauge your team’s ability to execute your operating model. |
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Module 2: Get to Know Your Stakeholders
The Purpose
- Understand the expectations of stakeholders.
- Review the services stakeholders consume to support their applications.
- Gauge stakeholder satisfaction of the services and applications your team provides and supports.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Grounded understanding of the drivers and motivators of stakeholders that teams should accommodate.
- Identification of improvement opportunities that will increase the value your team delivers to stakeholders.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Understand your stakeholders and applications services. |
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| 2.2 | Define stakeholder expectations. |
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| 2.3 | Gauge stakeholder satisfaction of applications services and portfolio. |
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Module 3: Develop Your Applications Strategy
The Purpose
- Align and consolidate a single set of applications expectations.
- Develop key initiatives to alleviate current pain points and exploit existing opportunities to deliver new value.
- Create an achievable roadmap that is aligned to organizational priorities and accommodate existing constraints.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Applications team and stakeholders are aligned on the core focus of the applications department.
- Initiatives to address the high priority issues and opportunities.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Define your applications expectations. |
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| 3.2 | Investigate your diagnostic results. |
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| 3.3 | Envision your future state. |
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| 3.4 | Create a tactical plan to achieve your future state. |
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| 3.5 | Finalize your applications strategy. |
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