Play 8 – Create Your Roadmaps
- Difficulty: Easy to Moderate
- Target time: 6-10 weeks
- Maturity: 0 to 4
- Lack of clarity on what IT is delivering when
- A need to reflect the business strategy and the impact on IT
- An application catalogue
- A list of projects
- A list of technologies
- High-level business processes (if possible)
- Engagement with the Project Office
- Understanding of the business strategy
- Create strategic plans with the architecture elements they will be impacting
- Work with the project teams to identify the plans they will be implementing
- Identify the gaps where plans have no implementing projects
- By plan, you can see the projects impacting different elements of the architecture and when
- Enables discussion on dependencies and mitigation
- Projects begin to work on optimal delivery schedules
- PMO – project portfolio
- Projects – project dates and architecture impacts
- Engage PMO and projects – highlight dependencies and impacts
- Engage business in how project portfolio can be reshaped to deliver quicker or at lower cost
- EA closer to the project teams, value add through dependency analysis – builds credibility with projects and a keenness to engage architects
- Credibility with the CIO as EA can demonstrate impacts on projects and dependencies, spotting potential threats to the overall project delivery
Steps | ||||||
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What | Capture the applications with basic details and services | Capture the technology products | Create the business capability model with the BA, validate with Executive | Identify the high-level processes and map applications that use them | Define strategic plans and the applications they impact | Create the projects that will implement the strategic plans |
Usage | Have a list of applications used that can be the anchor for the rest of the work. Define strategic applications in line with your target state | Have a list of technology products, ideally you would do T1.1 at the same time | Will be the anchor for application duplication from a business perspective | Enables identification of duplicate application candidates in the business. | See strategic plans applications implementing them | See Projects delivering the strategic plans |
Interested Parties and expected response | Business & IT | CIO | Business | Business & CIO | Business & IT | CIO |
Approach | By Business Unit/Area | By Business Unit/Area | By Business Unit/Area | By Business Unit/Area | By Programme | By Programme |