Practice Area
Application Development and Cost Control
An organization’s application development area and the application portfolio they manage are a major source of IT value and a large IT cost component. Today, the major management objectives for this critical area include improving service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption, increasing Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) efficiency, improving cost management, and reducing ineffective spending.
Initial consulting offerings in this area allow you to see immediate, actionable value in 30 to 90 days of project completion by
- Discussing the state of SOA adoption and creating a SOA roadmap for the organization
- Identifying SDLC methodology and quality improvements
- Creating a game plan for the adoption of application portfolio management
- Providing analysis that supports budget adjustments and priority setting based on fact, rather than arbitrary assumptions about budget allocation and business value
Engagement Opportunities
The following are a sample of the engagements offered by Burton Group Consulting Services and should not be viewed as an exhaustive list of engagements.
Structured to inform the client’s staff about SOA issues while allowing participants to develop perspectives regarding the organization’s SOA maturity, standards, infrastructure, and adoption challenges. The result of the workshop is a report documenting summary observations, issues, recommendations, and the SOA action plan.
Structures the approach to successfully engage the business, to assess application portfolio health, to identify cost reductions, to depict project portfolio dependencies and other possible outcomes. Examines success factors related to governance, relationship, data availability, and strategic to increase the likelihood of success.
Categorizes application spending so that departments, divisions or enterprise executives can see budget allocation by function and according to maintenance versus new development. Promotes IT spending transparency, and identifies possible spending reallocation and reduction opportunities.
Develop a health rating that shows the relationship between the application’s ability to support the business functional requirements, its technical condition, and a categorization of value-add versus sunk cost spending. Identifies the portions of the application portfolio where additional investment should be discouraged or encouraged.