Technology Portfolio Management (TPM) Best Practices

Overview

Technology Spread is one of the most strategically valuable data assets that the connection between the Technologies Inventory family and the Applications Inventory produces. For every technology in every Technologies Inventory type, Technology Spread data reveals which applications use it, which business capabilities those applications support, what the aggregate cost attributable to it is, and what the Rationalization Posture and Strategic Disposition of the applications using it are.

Best Practice

Establish Technology Spread as a standard data dimension of every Technologies Inventory record, populated through the governed connection between the Technologies Inventory family and the Applications Inventory. The Technology Spread data for each technology record should be maintained as a live, connected view rather than a static snapshot: when an application is added to or removed from the APM portfolio, or when an application’s technology stack is updated, the Technology Spread data for every affected technology record should reflect that change. Use Technology

Benefit(s)

Organizations that maintain Technology Spread data as a continuous governance discipline discover that it transforms both technology governance decisions and application governance decisions. Technology lifecycle decisions are made with explicit awareness of their portfolio-wide application impact. Application rationalization decisions are informed by the technology trajectory of the foundations those applications depend on. And AI-assisted portfolio analysis of the connected data produces cross-cutting intelligence that manual analysis cannot replicate at scale.