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* Please provide your name.

* Please specify your designation within the company.

Briefly list, in one or two sentences, your definition of Application Portfolio Management.

Please check off the initial needs that initiated the APM process in your organization.

What maturity level would you describe your APM process to be at? Please select one.

Defined - comprehensive, centralized, managed IT inventory.Challenge of implementing the process across the organization still exists. Inducing an understanding and extricating cooperation, involvement and a positive attitude towards the process from IT dept and business users is also on the to-do list. Basic understanding of financial metrics for IT investments.

Managed marked by a focus towards business strategy. Annual ROI, IRR and NPV analysis of IT investments that align with business strategy.

Synchronized marked by the ability to align IT portfolio with business strategy. Use evolving metrics to value ongoing projects. Routinely discard underperforming projects and routinely assess individual project risk and portfolio risk. Use real options to evaluate and measure future impact of projects. Gather regular feedback from business unit heads and corporate strategy management to ensure IT and business strategy alignment after investment has been decided upon; adjusting course as necessary.

Is your APM tool built in house or purchased from an APM vendor? If purchased from an APM vendor, please specify company name otherwise put In-house.

Please check off the nature of problems/hurdles you faced while implementing the process. If other, please specify.

Defining Metrics and Measurement Process

Skills and Resources lack of financial knowledge in IT dept, frequent staff turnover in IT dept, no resources for training IT staff, no knowledge of gathering data

Business and IT Gap General lack of respect for IT, IT regarded as a necessary evil.

Turf battles - Managers fear of losing budget proprietorship need to change the attitude.

Other

Did you achieve all your initial goals/needs after the first run? If not then please specify how many cycles you had to go through? Also please mention any unique results/values achieved.

How often do you run the APM process? (Monthly, Quarterly, Bi-annually, Annually)

How often do you refresh your APM Inventory data? Is it an activity different from running the APM process or gathering data is a step in running the APM process?

Briefly list the various financial/non-financial metrics used to evaluate technical risk.

Finally, Who originated the need for Application Portfolio Management in your organization? Please specify a designation and department.

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