What is our technology roadmap?

The business question What is our technology roadmap? shows when components are planned to be implemented and when they will no longer provide IT support to the business.

Review component lifecycles and understand which applications they support. Look for components that are approaching their end-of-life but have no successor components planned. This business question helps you to identify gaps in technology support and take corrective action for components that are at risk.

The license package IT Transformation Server - Enterprise is required to work with this business question.

The visualization is a Gantt chart that shows the lifecycles of all components in the repository. Here's how to interpret the information:

  • The rows show Component components
  • Columns show a checkmark if a component's Strategic Component attribute is set to Yes. The Standardization column indicates the component's degree of standardization. The Object State column indicates if an component is  ActiveState active,  PlanState plan, or  RetiredState retired.
  • The timeline shows a red bar visualizing the active period (start date - end date) of the component. If a component lifecycle is defined, lifecycle phases will be displayed in a multi-colored bar above the red bar.
  • The blue vertical line indicates the current date.
  • The relationships between predecessor and successor components are displayed as black lines. If a component has a successor component defined, a black line will begin at the end of the predecessor component's lifecycle and point to the start of the successor component lifecycle. Point to the black line to view a tooltip showing the predecessor component, successor component, and end date of the predecessor component.

Components must be in the repository and well-documented. The following data is required about components in order to have meaningful results:

  • End date
  • Lifecycle phases
  • Successor attribute (if known)

Go to the Data Quality page and resolve the issues to ensure that the data is complete.

Go to the Data Source page to review the components that are used to answer the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.