Roadmapping

Roadmapping is a strategic tool that helps organizations visualize and plan the evolution of their IT landscape. Start by identifying your technical debt—the outdated, redundant, or inefficient technologies and applications that hinder agility and increase maintenance costs. Understanding where technical debt resides allows you to prioritize and allocate resources effectively.

Define your application roadmap to outline how your application portfolio will evolve over time, including upgrades, retirements, and new deployments. Align this with your technology roadmap, which charts the future of your infrastructure and platforms, ensuring compatibility, scalability, and innovation. Together, these roadmaps provide a clear path for reducing risk, improving performance, and supporting long-term business goals.

	Understand the impact of end-of-life technologies on the business with the business question What is our technical debt?
	Understand application lifecycles so that you can plan the application roadmap with the help of the business question What is our application 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 and helps you identify gaps in technology support and take corrective action for components that are at risk.