Application Lifecycle Governance: Demolishing governance silos to reduce costs and improve alignment

Impact
Today’s typical IT organization has scant resources for supporting enterprise innovation. With 75% – or more – of the IT budget consumed by maintenance, there is little left over for IT to develop the software that helps enterprises maintain their competitive edge. Compounding the issue, application development organizations carry poor reputations for delivering software projects on time, on budget, and on scope. A major culprit is that the application lifecycle is managed – like many other IT domains – as an isolated domain that creates redundancies,
overlaps, and inefficiencies which help prevent the IT organization from delivering value to the enterprise.

Ovum view
Governance has increased in profile as organizations are compelled either by regulation or by market forces to make their processes more transparent. Governance is a good thing, but too much overlapping governance leads to conflicts and inefficiencies. This report explores how to rationalize governance of the application lifecycle with several key governance domains to make software delivery more reliable and responsive to the business.

Key Messages:
Economic cycles have heightened the need for IT to control its operation and spend.
IT is implementing governance initiatives to improve its poor track record for solution delivery.
IT governance has typically reflected the functional silos of the IT organization; this has long been true for application lifecycle management (ALM).
Governance of the application lifecycle should be federated with other domains and practices that it intersects.

This report reveals

Why the application lifecycle is not an isolated domain for IT governance.
How and why application lifecycle governance should leverage the ITIL framework.
Why poor governance compromises IT’s ability to align software development with the business.
How to use SLAs to bring greater accountability to managing the application lifecycle.
Why SOA should be governed as an extension of the application lifecycle.
Where governance can alleviate the disconnect between software development and IT service delivery.
Why cloud governance is relevant to managing the application lifecycle.
The pivotal role of application lifecycle management in the hightech product lifecycle.

Report Highlights

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Section 1: Management Summary 7
1.1 Management summary 9
Section 2: Business issues 15
2.1 Summary 17
2.2 Report guide 17
2.3 IT governance: too much and not enough of a good thing 19
2.4 ALM governance is not an island 20
2.5 Lessons learned in putting the pieces together 21
2.6 Recommendations 22
2.7 Appendix 23
Section 3: Rationalizing SOA governance with the application lifecycle 25
3.1 Summary 27
3.2 Why implement SOA? 27
3.3 SOA is one of many it governance disciplines 29
3.4 SOA and application lifecycles: so near, yet so far apart 35
3.5 The service lifecycle and application lifecycle need to be aligned 37
3.6 Recommendations 41
3.7 Appendix 42
Section 4: ALM and ITIL: Aligning application lifecycle with ITSM 43
4.1 Summary 45
4.2 Getting beyond finger pointing 45
4.3 Recap: the development solution to dev-ops collaboration 47
4.4 Solution from the ITO side: apply ITIL to cross the divide 51
4.5 Recommendations 59
4.6 Appendix 61
Section 5: Application development in the product lifecycle 63
5.1 Summary 65
5.2 Software content in products is becoming pivotal 66
5.3 Product lifecycle requirements vary 67
5.4 The embedded software lifecycle 71
5.5 Tool support 75
5.6 Recommendations 78
5.7 Appendix 79
Section 6: Application project portfolio management for aligning business-IT strategy 81
6.1 Summary 83
6.2 APPM has a role in ALM and in achieving business strategic aims 83
6.3 APPM helps manage risk through visibility of risk assessments throughout the lifecycle 87
6.4 Recommendations 89
6.5 Appendix 90
Section 7: Cloud governance in the application lifecycle 91
7.1 Summary 93
7.2 Cloud governance builds on IT governance 93
7.3 ALM governance must accommodate the cloud 96
7.4 Cloud governance builds on SOA governance 101
7.5 Recommendations 102
7.6 Appendix 103
Section 8: Glossary 105
Contents – Continued
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