Application Portfolio Management Toolkit

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Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Application Portfolio Management Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Application Portfolio Management related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Application Portfolio Management specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Application Portfolio Management Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 994 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Application Portfolio Management improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:

  1. Do you have an Information Sharing Agreement with another body that involves the collection, use, disclosure or storage or personal information? What is its impact on your Application Portfolio?

  2. Is there a comprehensive business technology strategy that addresses alignment, infrastructure, applications, delivery, communications, security, support, governance, and funding?

  3. Are the relevant Business Goals, Business Requirements, principles and guidelines taken into account in the further development of the Project Architecture?

  4. Are all the relevant Business Goals, Business Requirements, principles and guidelines taken into account in the final version of the Project Architecture?

  5. Is appropriate application ownership assigned within your organization to continuously review, track and monitor the application portfolio?

  6. Are you planning a research agreement with another body that involves the collection, use, disclosure or storage of personal information?

  7. Has your organization licensed its software to customers, and is it expected to provide annual enhancements and updates to the software?

  8. Are there better value and more strategically aligned alternatives to the application which would justify investment to change?

  9. How does the interaction between corporate versus product brand dominance and brand portfolio overlap impact brand evaluations?

  10. Which of the different types of interfaces should be preserved, and which should be transformed or replaced by new approaches?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Application Portfolio Management book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Application Portfolio Management self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Application Portfolio Management Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Application Portfolio Management areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Application Portfolio Management Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Application Portfolio Management projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Application Portfolio Management Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Application Portfolio Management project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Requirements Documentation: Basic work/business process; high-level, what is being touched?

  2. Lessons Learned: Under what legal authority did your organization head and program manager direct your organization and Application Portfolio Management project?

  3. Cost Baseline: Have all approved changes to the cost baseline been identified and impact on the Application Portfolio Management project documented?

  4. Project Portfolio management: Do you use specialized software to manage your portfolio of Application Portfolio Management projects?

  5. Change Log: Is the requested change request a result of changes in other Application Portfolio Management project(s)?

  6. Schedule Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler and/or regular dealer?

  7. Stakeholder Management Plan: Pareto diagrams, statistical sampling, flow charting or trend analysis used quality monitoring?

  8. Activity Duration Estimates: Consider the common sources of risk on information technology Application Portfolio Management projects and suggestions for managing them. Which suggestions do you find most useful?

  9. Decision Log: What is the average size of your matters in an applicable measurement?

  10. Risk Management Plan: Are the required plans included, such as nonstructural flood risk management plans?

 
Step-by-step and complete Application Portfolio Management Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Application Portfolio Management project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Application Portfolio Management project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Application Portfolio Management project Scope Statement
  • 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
  • 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
  • 2.9 WBS Dictionary
  • 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
  • 2.11 Activity List
  • 2.12 Activity Attributes
  • 2.13 Milestone List
  • 2.14 Network Diagram
  • 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
  • 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
  • 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
  • 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.19 Application Portfolio Management project Schedule
  • 2.20 Cost Management Plan
  • 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
  • 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.23 Cost Baseline
  • 2.24 Quality Management Plan
  • 2.25 Quality Metrics
  • 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
  • 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
  • 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
  • 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
  • 2.30 Communications Management Plan
  • 2.31 Risk Management Plan
  • 2.32 Risk Register
  • 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
  • 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
  • 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
  • 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
  • 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
  • 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
  • 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Application Portfolio Management project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Application Portfolio Management project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Application Portfolio Management project with this in-depth Application Portfolio Management Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Application Portfolio Management projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Application Portfolio Management and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Application Portfolio Management investments work better.

This Application Portfolio Management All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.