Application Rationalization Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Application Rationalization 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 996 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 Rationalization improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:

  1. Will the new or changed processes or applications threaten your organizations business continuity or increase information security risks?

  2. What metaphor can provide a framework rationalizing the transition from the operational effects logic to the form of its application?

  3. What do you believe is the biggest concern or problem impacting server consolidation using rationalization in your enterprise?

  4. What rational products can be used together to provide a comprehensive application portfolio management solution?

  5. What are the operational enablers conditioning the application of the rationale of a certain operational effect?

  6. What graphic plot reflects the transition from the operational effects rationale to the form of its application?

  7. What is the simplest way for a developer to check your organization of scoped objects and view attributes?

  8. What is the extent of consultation between IT and business units around major changes or transformations?

  9. Does your organization currently track health indicators for the purposes of application rationalization?

  10. Does your organization feel that it has insight into leading industry compliance practices and controls?


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 Rationalization book in PDF containing 996 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Application Rationalization 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 Rationalization Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Application Rationalization 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 Rationalization 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 Rationalization projects with the 62 implementation resources:

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Activity Duration Estimates: Is earned value analysis completed to assess Application Rationalization project performance?

  2. Schedule Management Plan: Has the scope management document been updated and distributed to help prevent scope creep?

  3. Formal Acceptance: Was the Application Rationalization project work done on time, within budget, and according to specification?

  4. Activity Duration Estimates: How does a Application Rationalization project life cycle differ from a product life cycle?

  5. Initiating Process Group: Contingency planning. if a risk event occurs, what will you do?

  6. Cost Management Plan: Contingency – how will cost contingency be administered?

  7. Procurement Audit: Has your organization examined in detail the definition of performance?

  8. Schedule Management Plan: Will the Application Rationalization project sponsor be involved in preliminary schedule reviews?

  9. Project Charter: Assumptions: what factors, for planning purposes, are you considering to be true?

  10. Quality Management Plan: What changes can you make that will result in improvement?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Application Rationalization project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Application Rationalization 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 Rationalization 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 Rationalization 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 Rationalization 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 Rationalization 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 Rationalization project with this in-depth Application Rationalization Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Application Rationalization 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 Rationalization 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 Rationalization investments work better.

This Application Rationalization 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.