Application Portfolio Rationalization

A focused set of 10 actionable best practices for Application Portfolio Rationalization — the practices that separate a portfolio review that actually retires redundant systems from one that produces a beautiful inventory spreadsheet and changes nothing. Built for technology leaders facing app sprawl from shadow IT, M&A, or years of point solutions.

What's Inside

• 10 Best Practices — covering how to score applications for tolerate/invest/migrate/eliminate decisions, surface hidden maintenance costs, and overcome the sunk-cost thinking that keeps dead apps alive
• Introduction — why most rationalization efforts stall at the inventory stage and never reach actual decommissioning
• PowerPoint Format — Clean slides ready for team presentations, workshops, or leadership briefings

How Teams Use It

• IT leaders use it to build the business case for retiring redundant or aging applications
• Use as a checklist to benchmark portfolio decisions against proven rationalization practices
• Incorporate into training materials, onboarding decks, or strategy presentations