Description

A focused course, tailored for you

The Enterprise Architect's Course on Rationalizing Application Landscape When Budget Pressure Hits

Turn chaotic app inventories into a clear, business-aligned portfolio that survives budget cuts and governance reviews.

Stop spending Monday mornings reconciling three spreadsheets while senior leadership questions the credibility of your portfolio.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

You spend weeks hunting for the latest version of the application register, only to find spreadsheets scattered across teams, outdated status columns, and missing cost data. The governance board repeatedly asks for a single source of truth, but the current process forces you to manually reconcile data from three different tools before each quarterly review.

Meanwhile, senior leadership questions the value of each legacy system, and without a solid business case you risk losing funding for critical modernization projects. The lack of a repeatable intake and retirement workflow means each new request creates another orphaned entry, inflating the portfolio and eroding confidence in your stewardship.

What you walk away with

Produce a single, up-to-date application register that feeds directly into governance decks.
Apply a scoring model to prioritize retirement, consolidation, and investment decisions.
Create a repeatable intake workflow that captures cost, risk, and business alignment at request time.
Generate a ready-to-present business case package for each high-impact rationalization recommendation.
Establish a quarterly cadence that automatically refreshes key portfolio metrics for leadership.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Mapping the Current Landscape

Collect and consolidate all existing application data into one master register.

Module 2. Standardizing Data Fields

Define uniform cost, risk, and alignment attributes for every application.

Module 3. Building a Scoring Model

Create a weighted matrix to rank applications by strategic value and cost.

Module 4. Designing an Intake Process

Set up a gated workflow that captures required data at the moment of request.

Module 5. Running Consolidation Workshops

Facilitate cross-team sessions to validate scores and decide on actions.

Module 6. Crafting Business Cases

Translate scores into concise investment or retirement proposals.

Module 7. Automating Quarterly Refreshes

Use macros and connectors to keep the register current with minimal manual effort.

Module 8. Communicating to Leadership

Build slide decks that turn raw data into strategic narratives.

Module 9. Managing Change and Adoption

Create a rollout plan that secures buy-in from finance, security, and product owners.

Module 10. Measuring Impact

Define KPIs to track cost savings and risk reduction over time.

Module 11. Governance Gate Reviews

Set up a recurring board meeting agenda with pre-populated evidence packs.

Module 12. Continuous Improvement Loop

Iterate scoring criteria and intake forms based on feedback and emerging priorities.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

Module 1 covers Mapping the Current Landscape , exactly the chaos you face when you cannot locate a single source of truth for any application.

Module 4 covers Designing an Intake Process , exactly the bottleneck you hit each time a new request arrives without cost or risk data.

Module 7 covers Automating Quarterly Refreshes , exactly the manual rework you endure before every governance board meeting.

What you get with this course

A populated application register template with 30 sample entries.
A standardized data dictionary for cost, risk, and business alignment fields.
A weighted scoring matrix worksheet.
An intake form checklist for new application requests.
A workshop agenda and facilitation guide for consolidation sessions.
A business case template with pre-filled executive summary sections.
A quarterly refresh playbook with macro scripts.
A leadership deck skeleton populated with sample charts.
A change adoption roadmap checklist.
A KPI tracking scorecard.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Day 1: tailored playbook in hand, populated application register template and intake form ready for immediate use.

Week 1: first scoring matrix draft and business case pack completed for a high-impact consolidation candidate.

Month 1: recurring quarterly reporting cycle live with automated refreshes and leadership deck ready for the next governance board.

Before and after

Before

Your portfolio lives in three half-filled spreadsheets, cost data is hidden in finance files, and risk assessments sit in separate security reports. When the quarterly governance board asks for a single view, you scramble to stitch together inconsistent rows, causing delays and credibility gaps. No formal intake means each new request adds another orphaned line, inflating the count and hiding true spend.

After

You maintain one authoritative application register that auto-updates from the intake form, with cost, risk, and alignment fields standardized. A quarterly cadence produces a ready-to-share evidence pack, and leadership conversations focus on strategic decisions rather than data hunting. The scoring model and business case template let you propose retirements confidently, backed by clear ROI numbers.

What happens if you do not address this

If you ignore this now, the next budget cycle will arrive with an incomplete register and senior leadership will flag the portfolio as a risk. The audit committee will request remediation plans, and your credibility as the architecture lead will be questioned. Missed cost-saving opportunities will compound, eroding budget confidence for the entire year.

Who it is for

An Enterprise Architect who owns the application portfolio, spends most of the week aligning technology assets to business outcomes, runs quarterly portfolio reviews, and constantly fields requests from finance, security, and product owners for accurate cost, risk, and value data.

Who this is NOT for. This is not for someone who needs a basic introduction to what an application inventory is.

How it arrives

Within 24 hours of purchase your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it. The playbook is hand-built around your specific situation, not LLM-generated boilerplate.

Time investment. 6 hours of focused work spread over a week and the course saves an estimated 40-60 hours of internal data reconciliation.

Why $199 is the right number

A half-day consultant would charge $2-5K to map your apps, a generic portfolio certification costs $800-2K, and building the same framework yourself takes 60+ hours. At $199 you get a complete method, artefacts, and a custom playbook that delivers ROI in weeks.

FAQ

Do I need prior experience with portfolio tools?

The course assumes you already use a spreadsheet or lightweight CMDB; no deep tool expertise is required.

Will the templates work with my existing data sources?

All artefacts are format-agnostic and can be imported from Excel, CSV, or similar sources.

How much time will I need each week to apply the material?

Allocate about 3 hours per week and you’ll see a usable register after the first two weeks.

Is this suitable for a small team that manages only 50 applications?

Yes, the framework scales down and still delivers a disciplined, repeatable process.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.