Portfolio registry, governance, and readiness
A key and foundational parameter in your DevOps 360° evolution is to have a clear picture of which primary and secondary applications constitute the totality of your enterprise portfolio. Simply, which are the areas/teams of scope that need to adopt the evolution’s outcome? Moreover, what are the attributes of those applications that are crucial from a DevOps evolution perspective? Are 2,000 business applications in scope? Are they all cloud native and client facing? Which of them have PII data stored in their databases? We label the exercise of collecting and registering all this information across your portfolio as portfolio registry and governance. In the first part of this section, we will focus on a good practice and a proposal on what to look for when registering your portfolio.
Question
Will it surprise you if I tell you that several organizations do not have a structured portfolio registry and governance mechanism...