Justify modernizing your application portfolio from both business and technical perspectives.
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Running and maintaining legacy applications can result in:
Maintenance costs consuming most of the application team’s budget.
Limiting the business’ ability to modify and expand their capabilities or adjust to changing business conditions.
Missing productivity and innovation opportunities with new technologies.
A solid application modernization business case leads to:
Greater insight to the rationale behind an application modernization initiative.
Modernization risks, impacts, benefits, and costs communicated in the business language.
Higher chances of approval for an application modernization initiative.
Module 1: Define the Drivers for Modernization
The Purpose
Evaluate your application portfolio assessment to shortlist applications to modernize.
Gauge the alignment of your application shortlist to business and technical drivers and the resilience to external factors in order to select the ideal modernization candidate.
Key Benefits Achieved
The selection of an application to modernize justified by application rationalization and its satisfaction of high-priority business and technical drivers.
Activities:
Outputs:
1.1
Define the business drivers behind your modernization initiative.
Current state health of application portfolio
List of business drivers motivating modernization
1.2
Define the technical drivers behind your modernization initiative.
List of technical drivers motivating modernization
1.3
Understand the external factors influencing your modernization initiative.
List of factors beyond your control motivating modernization
1.4
Select your modernization candidate.
Selection of an application modernization candidate
Module 2: Define and Assess Modernization Alternatives
The Purpose
Reveal the current issues, constraints, and modernization opportunities of the selected application with a diagnostic.
Design modernization alternatives based on the results of your diagnostic.
Complete an impact, cost-benefit, and risk assessment to select the ideal alternative to leverage.
Key Benefits Achieved
Designing multiple options for modernization that accommodate the business and technical complexities of the application. Justification behind the selection of a modernization alternative based on risks, costs, and impacts.
Activities:
Outputs:
2.1
Diagnose your application.
List of application issues, constraints, and opportunities
2.2
Develop application modernization alternatives.
Application modernization alternatives
2.3
Conduct a cost-benefit analysis of your modernization alternatives.
Cost-benefit analysis of alternatives
2.4
Complete a risk assessment of your modernization alternatives.
Risk assessment of alternatives
2.5
Select a modernization alternative to recommend.
Selection of a recommended alternative
Module 3: Complete the Case
The Purpose
Build a plan to define milestones and roll out application modernization initiative.
Identify project stakeholders in order to tailor the business case to their language and to ensure their expectations are met.
Key Benefits Achieved
A completed business case tailored to the stakeholder’s language that contains the relevant information the stakeholder needs to make an informed decision.
Activities:
Outputs:
3.1
Create your application modernization plan.
Application modernization plan
3.2
Define your modernization project metrics.
Project metrics to gauge success
3.3
Recognize your project stakeholders.
List of project stakeholders
3.4
Finalize and monitor your business case.
Completed business case and presentation document
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