Causes and Consequences of Application Portfolio Complexity–An Exploratory Study
Series
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
ISBN
978-3-319-48393-1
Type
book section
Date Issued
2016-11
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Horkoff, Jennifer
Jeusfeld, Manfred A.
Persson, Anne
Research Team
IWI1, ACG
Abstract
Application Portfolio (AP) complexity is an increasingly
important and strongly discussed issue by both researchers and practitioners. Application portfolios in large organizations have become more and more difficult to understand, resulting in costly efforts to maintain and operate them. Although this is an urgent topic in large organizations, researchers and industry experts do not yet have a common understanding of this phenomenon and lack appropriate methods to measure and manage the respective complexity. We conduct an exploratory case study with the central enterprise architecture management (EAM) governance team and ten application owners of a large European automotive company to identify and link root causes and consequences of AP complexity. Furthermore, we evaluate possible solutions to decrease or manage this
complexity from an application owners perspective. The results are interpreted from a socio-technical systems perspective.
important and strongly discussed issue by both researchers and practitioners. Application portfolios in large organizations have become more and more difficult to understand, resulting in costly efforts to maintain and operate them. Although this is an urgent topic in large organizations, researchers and industry experts do not yet have a common understanding of this phenomenon and lack appropriate methods to measure and manage the respective complexity. We conduct an exploratory case study with the central enterprise architecture management (EAM) governance team and ten application owners of a large European automotive company to identify and link root causes and consequences of AP complexity. Furthermore, we evaluate possible solutions to decrease or manage this
complexity from an application owners perspective. The results are interpreted from a socio-technical systems perspective.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SoM - Business Innovation
Book title
The Practice of Enterprise Modeling : 9th IFIP WG 8.1. Working Conference, PoEM 2016, Skövde, Sweden, November 8-10, 2016, Proceedings
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Publisher place
Cham
Volume
Vol. 267
Start page
11
End page
25
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
249663