tools for siam - portfolio management

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SIAM Workshop

Tools for SIAMConrad Langhammer

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The Challenges of implementing SIAM

• Lack of transparency – who is delivering what and how?• Poor contract negotiation position due to lack of in-house

knowledge• Poor visibility into risk and dependencies (impact)• Where do we want to go (Target state)?• How do we get there?• Difficult to ensure suppliers follow your service integration

process (Governance)• Performance difficult to measure• Complexity in collaboration across multiple SIs


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DefineTransformation Plan

Analyze additional demand and change requests

Create High Level Business Case / Value Realization Plan

Define Initiatives and Develop Transition Plans (releases)

Prioritize and confirm with stakeholders

Process Collaboration

Analyze Current State

Design Target State

Setup Program Goals

Define and break down Capability Map

Analyze business strategy (goals and measures)

Align strategy and capabilities

Define metrics and portfolios

Evaluate and prioritize Capabilities (as-is and to-be)

Define high level as-is IT Inventory

Map applications to Capability Map

Analyze Business Service portfolio (health check)

Establish E2E View business service, Application, infrastructure SI

Define as-is Processes

Capture as-is Risks

Define detailed as-is IT landscape for identified pain points

Design and assess implementation alternatives

Derive to-be IT landscape.

Define to-be Processes

Capture to-be Risks

Risk/Regulatory Controls

Understand business context & priorities

Identify opportunity areas

Define long term vision

Derive roadmap and implementation plan

Track & Adjust

Establish governance processes & structures

Integrate new demands

Track changes of implementation plan & IT roadmap

Adjust IT strategy and transition plan

Re-prioritize projects and demands

Initiate Digitisation Digital Transformation

Process and IT Portfolio Evolution

SAG proven methodology implementing SIAM


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Disaggregation of the Business Capability Map

Sample Questions

• What does the business capability Map look like?

• What Business Services support my Business Capabilities?

• What are the most critical Business Services for innovation?

Business Capabilities Hierarchies

Business Services perceived as „not fit for purpose“

Business Services supporting selected capability


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Analyze Business Strategy and link to Capabilities

Sample Questions

• Deduct from the Business Strategy the IT Strategy/Goals & Objectives

• What business capabilities are most important to support the Business and It Strategy?

• Measure and Monitor KPI`s?

Break down Business Strategy

Understand and monitor inflight or planned projects

supporting the initiative

Reveal Business Capabilities

impacted by the selected Goal


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Define high level as-is IT Inventory

Sample questions

• Which Business Capabilities arecritical?

• Which Business Capabilities/Services have the biggest need for Action?

• What are planned vs. actual ICT Service Costs?

reveal ICT costs by the size of the capability

color codes for strategic relevance or customer perception of capability

Opex / Capex ratio over time

Application Burn Rate over years


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Drill in for into Business Capabilities and Services

Sample questions

• Which Business Capabilities are Fit for pupose?

• Which Business Capabilities/Services we have to innovate?

• What is the Cost Benefit ratio of my Business Capabilities/Services?

Assess and monitor KPI´s for Business Capabilities

Understand related ICT Cost of Capabilities

Understand and monitor inflight or planned programs/projects affecting selected capability


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Applications mapped to Business services

Sample questions

• Which Business Services are supporting selected Capability?

• How good is my ICT support?

• What are the business demands toward this capability/business services?

Business services

Compare the applications based on pre-defined KPIs

Applications providing business services

Understand demands to selected Capability /Business services


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Drill in to gain visibility about selected Application

Sample questions

• Which other Applications /Services rely on selested Application?

• What are the technical Services my Application rely on?

• What are costs related to the Application who is using the Application services?

Technologies/ Platforms services required by Application

Usage of Application within the Organization

Integration to Apps/Services

OPEX/CAPEX related to Application


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Functional Decomposition of Application Services

Sample questions

• Which other Applications /Services rely on selested Application?

• What are the technical Services my Application rely on?

• What are costs related to the Application who is using the Application services?

Technologies/ Platforms services required by Application

Color code reveals disaggregation of application service into different technical services


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Application Analysis – Costs & Contracts

Sample Questions

• How high are operational expenses for an application?

• Do costs increase or decrease over time?

• What contracts are currently relevant for this application? How long are they still running?

Application costs over time

Related contracts tof selected Application


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Analyze Technical Service Portfolio

Sample Questions

• What are used Technologies/technical Services in our Organization?

• What has been defined as Standard?

• Which Technologies are End of Life?

• Who provides the Technologies?

• Which technologies are being used the most?

Analysis of Technologies Map to

identify wwaht is used for what purpose and

what are the KPI´s related to that service

Usage analysis


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Understand Technical Services

Sample Questions

• What does my service catalog look like?

• Which provider is responsible for particulat service

• What are the dependencies to other Services

Technical service catalog

Technologies bundeld in Platform

Responsibilities for selected

Technical Service/Platform


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Disaggregation of the Business Capability Map

Sample Questions

• Which applications (blue) support which parts of the organisation (yellow) for which processes (green)

• Are there areas of missing IT support – “White spots”?

· Which applications are provided by which SI (color code)? Business

Unit

Capability or Process

Color indicates providing SI

Current IT Support for Business


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Define Target State

Sample Questions

• What is the long-term Application Portfolio Road Map and what are the milestones to reach it?

• What are the gaps between current situation and planned strategy?

• Which Provider will support which Systems

Compare different Strategy Scenarios

IT Strategy (grey boxes)

Current Support (blue boxes)


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Enterprise-wide migration overview

Sample Questions

• Which applications are part of a migration at what time?

• What are the target applications and when will they be rolled out?

Business Process

Business Unit

Planned migration with target date


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Define a project‘s AS-IS architecture

Sample Questions

• Which parts of my landscape are affected?

• Which applications will be touched and in what lifecycle phase are those applications?

• How are the relevant objects connected with each other?

• How do the architectural objects currently support the business?

Understand the current business

support

View the current landscape impacted

by this project


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Define a project‘s TO-BE architecture

Sample Questions

• What are the changes that will be introduced during this project?

• What will the TO-BE architecture look like?

Review new solution

applications (orange) and their planned interfaces

in the existing landscape.

Define the changes to be made to achieve the

desired TO-BE architecture


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Analyze and prioritize your project portfolio

Sample Questions

• Which projects are highest priorities?

• Is there enough budget for all the projects in the portfolio for this year and the following ones?

• What are the projects’ timelines and milestones and how is the current performance?

Timelines and milestones of projects

in the portfolio

Based on the ranking above

- identify projects

outside the spend limit

Prioritise pojects in the portfolio based on predefined KPIs


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Compare different project scenarios

Sample Questions

• Which projects will be implemented in which scenarios?

• What does a scenario mean in terms of financial or architectural impact?

• Which scenario contributes most to the business strategy?

• What are the architectural risks of a scenario?

Direct comparison of the scenarios with

predefined KPIs

Understand the

dependencies between

projects within a scenario

Projects that will be implemented in each

scenario

Comparison of the strategic impact

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