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The management of a portfolio of applications is in some ways similar to the management of an account, in the way that you have in one hand the customer satisfaction and on the other hand you have the profit you do. I would like to go in deep for a situation like the one showed … Read more
Look into internet a report from Gartner and Cast Software named “How to Monetize Application Technical Debt”. They expose a simplified formula for the measure on the individual of a given application based in the number of violations per thousands of lines of code (violations per KLOC). The formula proposed for Technical Debt is: L … Read more
Business Applications are the primary mechanism for delivering IT value. Applications are expensive to purchase, but even more expensive to maintain. You have strategic plans, balance sheets, portfolio management cycles…and budget reviews. Application TCO is one of the recognized mechanisms to manage the IT budget, and it’s also one of the major headaches for CIOs … Read more
You have a portfolio of applications, and you receive the request of modernize it. You do an analysis of the situation and then you have to decide what to do with each one of the assets you have. The industry has developed a nomenclature to enable common understanding of what you can do. Here some … Read more
Every business decision, without exception is a gamble. We choose to invest money and time in the hope that the investment will provide a return greater than our investment. There are 2 type of gamblers: does who calculate the odds, and does who don’t. On a typical business case, you calculate the costs, the benefit, … Read more
A basic framework to implement solutions in a big corporation under the portfolio of business activities is: Hypothesis POC (proof of concept) Pilot Standarize. Ground rules: There is an evaluation of the results at the end of each stage, The pilot is preferably aligned with the IT strategy. Process standardization is a key element that … Read more
Home in a community: Your home can be customized within boundaries (local / community regulations). All homeowners must use standardized services (local roads, utilities, etc.). This is a basic civic principle. Project in a portfolio: Projects can be customized within boundaries (standards). All core and core/dependent projects will leverage standard processes, architecture and infrastructure and … Read more
During these months I face the service renewal activities. This summary list just tries to review the concepts to be taken into account during these discussions. A) In general take into account: The previous year consumption. The previous year major activities. Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threads The business challenges for next year. B) Highlight added value, … Read more
Managing the contract renewal process of an applications portfolio means for me that I have to discuss with different portfolio managers from the customer. The renewal process is done with customer portfolio leads, but the details are obtained from and with each one of the application lead. Reach this point, there are 2 type of portfolio managers: First … Read more
I have been looking for an open source tool for application portfolio management purposes. I have just found this tool, that in the cloud edition (google Apps), offer a limited set of features. http://apm.apps.nestan.com.au/ Do you know any open source tool for APM?