Besides the core objectives targeted by APM, you may want your APM practice to focus initially on more specific goals. Here are the most common useful use cases that can be addressed by APM:
Application transparency and governance: Establish a single source of truth as a company-wide baseline for change decisions, and institute clear ownership for organizational and individual responsibility in supporting company strategies and goals with a sound application strategy.
Application lifecycle management: Reliably plan application phase-in and -out by identifying on-boarding, planning (build and deploy), production and retirement phases. Tie these to the processes, business capabilities and strategies they support to avoid lapses in application support.
Application rationalization: Eliminate redundant and low value applications smartly by using meaningful KPIs and dependency analysis to ensure you aren’t retiring something that a critical process or project depends on.
Application risk management: Identify business/IT architectural dependencies and threats to business applications to reduce business risk exposure.
Application portfolio transformation: Keep portfolio transformation in alignment with business strategy by basing decisions on business strategies and understanding which business capabilities need to be strengthened to support those strategies.