{"id":265,"date":"2010-06-02T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/02\/assessing-my-portfolio\/"},"modified":"2010-06-02T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T19:20:00","slug":"assessing-my-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/02\/assessing-my-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing my portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_FHKXh6Fis30\/TAZN2NUvkhI\/AAAAAAAABWw\/VO8yq8-tcm8\/s1600\/assess.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478151590427726354\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 169px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_FHKXh6Fis30\/TAZN2NUvkhI\/AAAAAAAABWw\/VO8yq8-tcm8\/s200\/assess.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Identifying the applications needs of the portfolio, I&#8217;m basically facing these situations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You have to reassess the current conditions of an application and decide if to enhance it or remove it.<\/li>\n<li>You decide to retire an application in order to minimize the cost.<\/li>\n<li>You need to renew an application for keeping it flexible or to perform functional needs. <\/li>\n<li>You have an application (probably key) that you need to redevelop to minimize risks, improve structural capabilities or increase functional capabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>For all these assessments, what I basically do is to ask myself different questions:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is the application easy to use? easy to learn?<\/li>\n<li>Does it well with the way work is done?<\/li>\n<li>Does it cover all the needed functionality?<\/li>\n<li>Does it help us to be productive and efficient?<\/li>\n<li>Can be easily adapted by the user to meet evolving requirements?<\/li>\n<li>Are the technical conditions the right ones?<\/li>\n<li>Is the application support cheap\/expensive?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It requires a lot of knowledge in terms of the customer and end user vision. <\/p>\n<p>I work a lot on this point of view in order to do not fail in the &#8220;IT geek&#8221; perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identifying the applications needs of the portfolio, I&#8217;m basically facing these situations: You have to reassess the current conditions of an application and decide if to enhance it or remove it. 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