Communicate & Collaborate Strategy

The application portfolio management (APM) strategy and priorities should be communicated and distributed to all stakeholders, including IT teams, business units, and senior management. Collaborating with stakeholders will foster a shared understanding of application needs and priorities. This will improve stakeholder engagement and support the enterprise architecture strategy, contributing towards achieving maturity goals.

The governance workflow engine and the standard governance workflows control the publishing and general availability of models to specified users and groups. Following standard guidance for governance workflows and subscriptions, stakeholders can automatically be notified of the approval and publication of APM strategy models and enforce acknowledgement requirements and notifications.

The social behaviour warehouse can be used to determine whether users are actively engaging with the relevant repository content, and internal policies and guidelines can support this behaviour.

Figure 14 - Governance Features

Stakeholders can subscribe to strategy models using the governance features. They can also rate the content and comment on specific observations, which will be visible to the model’s owner.

Figure 15 - Rating & Commenting