{"id":6143,"date":"2012-09-21T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/?p=6143"},"modified":"2022-04-08T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:23:12","slug":"application-portfolio-management-dont-boil-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/application-portfolio-management-dont-boil-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Application Portfolio Management \u2013 \u201cDon\u2019t Boil the Ocean\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Samir Mukadam, VP of Product Management at Innotas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We briefly mentioned Application Portfolio Management (APM) in <a title=\"Change is inevitable; Growth is optional\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.innotas.com\/uncategorized\/change-is-inevitable-growth-is-optional\">our most recent post<\/a>. Since then we have received many emails from customers and prospects on how one should go about rolling out APM in their organization. \u2013Here is how Innotas thinks an IT organization should approach APM:<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/application-portfolio-management-dont-boil-ocean\/#Define_the_business_challenge_and_need_first\" >Define the business challenge and need first.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/application-portfolio-management-dont-boil-ocean\/#Align_APM_decisions_with_your_maturity_level\" >Align APM decisions with your maturity level.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/application-portfolio-management-dont-boil-ocean\/#Take_baby_steps_with_your_APM_approach\" >Take baby steps with your APM approach.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Define_the_business_challenge_and_need_first\"><\/span>Define the business challenge and need first.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Many customers seem to get overwhelmed trying to make sense of all the various apps and solutions available and creating a map of where these should fit into the overall IT ecosystem. Secondly, customers are getting bombarded with incoming emails, phone calls from new or current vendors on how their solutions would help them.\u00a0 Take a step back. You are in control and not the vendor. First write down what questions you are trying to answer. What business needs do you want to solve by trying to get a handle on your application portfolio?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Align_APM_decisions_with_your_maturity_level\"><\/span>Align APM decisions with your maturity level.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There is no silver bullet that will address all your APM issues. Do you need an IT Governance solution, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planview.com\/products-solutions\/solutions\/technology-application-portfolio-management\/\">Enterprise Architecture<\/a> solution, or Application Portfolio Management solution? It is difficult to draw clear lines between these areas. You need a set of capabilities that works across these related yet distinct areas.<\/p>\n<p>The right mix seems to depend on the maturity of the APM solution currently in place. Depending on where the organization falls on the maturity curve, they need a different prescription.<\/p>\n<p>If you are on the higher end of the maturity spectrum, congratulations you have almost achieved APM nirvana and your IT organization is running existing apps and rolling new apps like a well oiled machine. Awesome!<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Take_baby_steps_with_your_APM_approach\"><\/span>Take baby steps with your APM approach.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Companies that are at the lower end of the maturity spectrum can\u2019t take a sledgehammer approach to APM. Overall problem needs to be broken down into bite size chunks and quick solutions need to be implemented to quickly move up the maturity curve. Ideally, the solution to be used lets you easily make that transition. First step in that process is to get a handle of your application inventory and a classification scheme that helps you organize your application portfolio by various stake holders or functional areas.<\/p>\n<p>If the organization currently uses spreadsheets, quickly rationalize the data that is being captured per application. Do you need to capture additional details or remove some fields that do not make sense? Don\u2019t over think it. A well-designed cloud based app will let you fairly easily make configuration changes to your setup. \u00a0Once you have mapped your spreadsheets to match up with the configuration, you can quickly push your application inventory to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have uploaded your application inventory, it becomes very easy now to provide access to stakeholders and help users visualize the application portfolio. 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