Project & Portfolio Summit 2008

Crawl-Walk-Run: Building Public-Sector IT Portfolio Management Maturity David McClure Research Director Portfolio management practices require critical path intersections - not collisions - with enterprise architecture and business process improvement efforts. Integrating EA, BPM, and application portfolio management processes are essential to maximizing successful IT strategies and successful project outcomes. In government, governance processes often separate rather than integrate these IT management disciplines. In order to maximize their effectiveness, process integration is needed that bring enterprise architects (for business and technology) and business process managers together with IT program and portfolio managers. Key Issues: (1) How are EA, BPM and IT portfolio management approaches evolving to capitalize on better synergies? (2) What governance approaches are best suited to integrate these IT management processes in government? Application Portfolio Management: A Practitioner’s Guide Jim Duggan Research VP Application portfolio management can optimize an enterprise’s future spending on its current business applications. Using APM techniques, business value and technology risk/effectiveness of applications can be assessed based on our “Tolerate, Invest, Migrate and Eliminate” approach. Systematic assessments should include business stakeholders and be revisited as the business and technology change. We provide useful guidelines to effect graceful application retirements and minimize unintended consequences. Key issues: (1) What is the value of APM? (2) How can AD organizations best begin gathering the right application portfolio information? (3) How can application portfolio knowledge help structure application portfolio decision making? Jim Duggan Research VP The Hall Pass is Repealed: The Convergence of Application Change and Configuration Management The impact of higher audit standards has spread well beyond regulated industries. This session will discuss how these standards are influencing processes and tools at the practical application delivery level. We’ll discuss how a shared planning, measurement, control and reporting framework is emerging from PPM, ALM and Operational Change tools. Key Issues: (1) What new demands are being made of application delivery processes? (2) What organizational and process structures are evolving to meet these demands? (3) How will vendor and service provider offerings for Application Lifecycle Management grow closer to PPM and operational change tools.

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