Assessing an application portfolio
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In this lesson
assess applications on comparable criteria.
Planned topics
- Business value: how critical, how many users, link to capabilities.
- Technical condition: age, supportability, security, test coverage, documentation.
- Risk: vendor end-of-support, key-person dependence, compliance.
- Cost to change and to run; integration entanglement.
- Plot value versus condition to suggest dispositions.
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Demonstration
a scoring sheet with columns value, condition, risk, cost to change, dependencies, and a quadrant chart: high value/low condition (invest or replace), low value/low condition (retire).
Check your understanding
What does a high-value, poor-condition application call for?
Show answer
Investment: refactor or replace, with a plan.
Practice
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