Gartner Application Architecture,
Development & Integration Summit

Track A: Organization, Governance and Application Overhaul: People & Practices

It is important to understand technological issues such as SOA and Cloud. But it is also to understand how to get your people in the right place to succeed when it comes to application modernization and overhaul. Governance and organizational maturity can be the keys to determining success or failure -- they are no longer a nice to have, they’re an imperative. When used correctly, they give organizations a stability they can use to adapt – and to adopt new methods (Agile, Lean), engagement and deployment models (SOA, BPM, SaaS, Cloud) and technologies. This track provides insights and best practices on how to organize, govern and manage your applications resources – old and new – to deliver maximum business value.

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Sessions

Building The Compelling Case for Application Overhaul

Unless addressed, your bloated application portfolio will stifle innovation and strangle agility. As IT leaders awake to the scale of applications overhaul, they'll need to build a strong coalition across the whole of IT and with all business stakeholders.

The Gartner Maturity Assessment's Methodology

We discuss the basic application governance framework, how organizations can assess themselves, and the results of client assessments.

Rapid Fire: Leaving the Mainframe – Is it possible?

Gartner receives a growing number of inquiries from mainframe customers to move off this stalwart platform. Is it really possible? What shape and size of mainframe portfolios are easier to move than others. What options are available? How do I know it will be cheaper if I move to a new platform?

How to Reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of Applications

The project is finished and the application goes live. But the popping of champagne corks simply celebrates the end of the beginning – the hard work and the major expense is all yet to come. Applications are expensive to own – but they don’t have to be so expensive – there are techniques that any application team can adopt that have a substantial effect on the total cost of ownership. Come along and find out what they are.

IT Modernization – Building a justification for modernization

Many organizations discuss modernizing their application portfolio and infrastructure, but do they really understand all the costs involved in the effort? This presentation will outline the key areas they need to be understood to determine if it’s really “cheaper” to modernize.

Rapid Fire: Governance--Just enough and more than you have

‘Governance’ is a frequently-misused term. Here, we discuss why governance is crucial for the applications organization and the ecosystem in which it must be defined and managed.

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Governing Your Application Overhaul Efforts Effectively

Governance is one of the most over-used and least-understood words making the rounds in organizations today. Most would agree that Overhaul efforts need ‘governance’, and then they’d disagree on exactly what that means. We provide Gartner’s definition of ‘governance’, and how to apply it to drive successful overhaul efforts.

Building an Applications Management Control Tower

Application management maturity comes melding together project, development and operational activities into a coherent controlled whole. We’ll discuss how Do ALM, PPM and ITSM (IT Service Management) conflict and complement. We’ll explore where merged processes will help with Identifying savings or improving focus on “real” needs. We’ll discuss successful client strategies and the tools they have exploited.

Agile and the Rest of the Organization

As IT development groups increase their use of Agile development we see points of friction across the organization as the QA and BA groups try to figure out how they fit in and can adjust to the incremental collaborative approaches of agile development. In addition increasing amounts of software development have been outsourced. Learn how to fit Agile in across the IT organization and what needs to be in-place to create a sustainable agile environment.

IT & Business Collaboration: SOA, BPM, and MDM

Historically, most organizations have built and maintained their applications and data in silos, with limited sharing depending largely on local politics, culture, and economics. Three complementary initiatives are increasingly bringing a focus on sharing: Master Data Management (MDM), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), But there is often little coordination among the architects, analysts and designers, and a lack of attention to the growing participation of business users.

It is important to understand technological issues such as SOA and Cloud. But it is also to understand how to get your people in the right place to succeed when it comes to application modernization and overhaul. Governance and organizational maturity can be the keys to determining success or failure -- they are no longer a nice to have, they�re an imperative. When used correctly, they give organizations a stability they can use to adapt � and to adopt new methods (Agile, Lean), engagement and deployment models (SOA, BPM, SaaS, Cloud) and technologies. This track provides insights and best practices on how to organize, govern and manage your applications resources � old and new � to deliver maximum business value.