Transforming the Application Portfolio
To upgrade the application and technological assets according to the objectives set, ITPM provides the tools to plan and follow up on the transformation projects to be achieved.
In ITPM, transformation projects can concern business capabilities, applications, application systems or technologies.
With these objects, depending on your connection profile, you can:
• submit an idea that could become a project demand
• submit a project demand
• directly launch a candidate project
The objects concerned are attached to the project demand or the candidate project as deliverables.
Once submitted, the ideas and projects are completed then assessed before being validated or rejected.
For more details on managing ideas and projects, see Managing Enterprise Projects.
Creating a Project in ITPM
Before creating a project, you must have defined the project domain to which the project belongs. See "Defining Project Domains", page 8.
To create a project in ITPM:
1. Click the navigation menu, then Transformation > Projects.
2. In the edit area, click Projects.
The list of projects appears.
3. Click New.
The window for creating a project appears.
4. Select the project type:
• demand
• candidate project
• Ongoing project
5. Click Next.
6. Specify:
• the owner project domain.
• the project code (optional)
• the planned start date
• the planned end date
7. Click OK.
For more details on projects, see "Defining Enterprise Projects", page 7.Defining Project Applications
The applications that you associate with a project are integrated as deliverables in the project.
When you add an object to a project, you must specify the action to be performed on the object. An event can be:
• a creation
• an update
• a removal
To add an application to a project:
1. Open the project properties
2. Select the Business Case page.
3. Expand the Project Deliverables section.
4. Click New.
5. Select the type of action to be performed on the deliverable.
6. Click Next.
7. Select the type of deliverable (here an application).
The list of repository applications appears.
8. In the list, select the application concerned.
9. Click Next.
10. Specify the production dates.
11. Click OK.
You can also add an application to a project using application properties.Life of the application in the transformation project
The life of the transformation project development deliverables is separate from the life of the applications in place. This is to be able to modelize change scenarios on these applications without impacting their effective life.
When the project is terminated (with the corresponding workflow command), the life cycle of the deliverables that it contains is automatically transferred to the repository applications.
See also: "Terminating a Project", page 24.Describing a Transformation Portfolio
Building a portfolio with HOPEX IT Portfolio Management consists of defining all the information, in particular the comparison criteria, that will allow you to choose the projects to implement.
For more information on project portfolio management, see "Project portfolio management", page 37.