Enterprise Architecture Management
Enterprise Architecture Management
The Enterprise Architecture Management capability’s enablers include Application Portfolio Management, Technology Portfolio Management, and Capability Portfolio Management. Each capability within the Planview Capability Framework has a distinct set of features and functionality, business processes, best practices, and analytics and reports that deliver value to customers in the form of specific business outcomes.
Enterprise Architecture Management Definitions and Business Outcomes
Application Portfolio Management
- This provides insight into the impact of application changes, business demand, and strategic priorities on your application portfolio while increasing business value through portfolio optimization and reduced cost and comxplexity.
- We can actively manage and govern our portfolio, and understand what applications support our business.
- We can understand how applications are aligned with business priorities.
- We can identify functional redundancy in our application portfolio.
- We can calculate the costs of individual applications and our overall portfolio.
- We can identify at-risk applications to their underlying technologies.
- We can evaluate our application portfolio for information security impacts and risk.
- We can score and analyze our applications using criteria that reflects our business and technical priorities.
- We can plan application retirement and replacements through analysis and develop application roadmap and transition plans.
We can break down epics into features, adding them to the program backlog and estimating size, value, or complexity as appropriate.
Technology Portfolio Management
- We can understand what technologies are currently deployed in our environment, and actively manage and govern our portfolio.
- We can anticipate and plan for technology risks associated with age and support.
- We can support technology standards governance decisions and determinations.
- We can create and manage technology roadmaps.
- We can evaluate and reduce the technology footprint and complexity in our landscape.
- We can plan technology retirement and replacements through data-based analysis and establish technology roadmap and transition plans.
- We can forecast resourcing needs.
This allows you to proactively understand and address the business impact and risk of aging technologies and improve compliance to meet your preferred standards.
Capability Portfolio Management
- We can establish a common vocabulary to optimize the quality and speed of decision-making and reduce confusion in cross-organizational discussions.
- We can establish explicit governance over the entire body of change and investment portfolios with holistic enterprise oversight.
- We can drive significant IT investments with business implications through business strategy as articulated via business architecture.
- We can use business architecture to analyze the business model and establish actionable roadmaps, funding, and priorities needed to deliver results ranging from tactical deployments to long-term business transformation.
- We can define and track expected business outcomes.
- We can leverage lessons learned to continually improve our planning process year-over-year.
This planning and analysis function aligns investment and technology portfolios with enterprise strategic priorities to drive optimal performance and advance business capability maturity.
Enterprise Architecture Management Process Steps
This capability provides insight into your application and technology portfolios in order to understand and actively manage the applications and technologies that support your business. From there, the capability portfolio management function allows you to align those insights with your organization's strategic priorities and expected business outcomes.
Connection Points
1. Enterprise Architecture Assessment
2. Execution Alignment
3. Application Inventory
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4. Capability Alignment
5. Project Associations
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Related Capabilities
Capacity Planning
This capability provides the mechanism to set resource capacity targets which can be used to analyze capacity against demand and assess the organization’s ability to continue with existing investments or adopt new investments.
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This capability provides the ability to compare, assess, prioritize, and rank all your potential and existing investments before the approval of your overall portfolio plan. The creation and comparison of what-if scenarios is supported to inform investment decision-making.
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This capability allows product managers, program managers, and business leaders to translate strategic ideas into a tangible timeline of business outcomes and deliverables. Roadmaps are used to set direction and expectations and maintain clear communication throughout delivery.
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Supported Solutions
Project Portfolio Management
With a line of sight from strategy to delivery, Planview’s Project Portfolio Management solution enables leaders to optimize program and project portfolios, balance capacity against demand, prioritize work, focus resources, and empower teams to deliver.
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Planview’s Enterprise Agile Planning solution provides a scalable enterprise-level lean portfolio management, agile program management, and agile delivery platform that enables planning and value delivery from the strategic portfolio level to the agile team.
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