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Measuring Risk in Application Portfolio Management
I decided to take a few minutes of my vacation time to catch up on my reading, and I read through Mike Walker's article on MSDN on APM and EA . It is an interesting and useful article. (I'd give it a B-). One thing that I'd like to highlight in the practice Read More...
Does APM reduce cost? That depends.
The goal of Application Portfolio Management is to reduce the cost of owning the portfolio. The fundamental premise is this: We own a lot of code. It costs a lot to maintain our code. (too much) Management wants to be able to make cuts in the maintenance Read More...
Putting Application Portfolio Management into the picture
Gabriel Morgan knocks one out of the ballpark in this blog post that traces the connection from Business strategy through business process to applications, data, and hardware. Highly recommended for anyone who is an Enterprise Architect or aspires to Read More...
Pay Attention to the Application Portfolio
One nice thing about being in Enterprise Architecture: you get to watch as the infrastructure changes. When you are working on one big project or another, or even a dozen different projects over the course of the year, you only see the changes that you Read More...
Third attempt - definition of an application in a SOA environment
In a previous post , I rattled on about the problems faced by Application Portfolio managers who wish to reduce the total cost of ownership and measure portfolio return through the oversimplified lens of "how many apps do you have?" I complained, rather Read More...
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