An application estate that had become difficult to govern
The proliferation of bespoke applications, local practices and dependencies made the overall roadmap difficult to understand and rationalisation risky.
Build a realistic roadmap
Assessment of the application estate and its interdependencies, identification of target capabilities, decisions between a shared foundation and local adaptations, then alignment of governance with Agile and DevOps practices.
A governable transformation
Rationalisation was repositioned within an enterprise roadmap: visible dependencies, decisions taken at the appropriate level and stronger continuity between architecture, delivery and operations.
EATO PERSPECTIVE
Rationalisation is not simply about removing applications.
It requires understanding what each application supports, distinguishing necessary complexity from inherited debt, and organising the decisions that will enable genuine convergence.