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126 questions, 454 terms and 400 topics in 20 areas.
16 results for “Portfolio Prioritisation”
Application Portfolio Management
Maintaining an inventory of every application with its owner, cost, business value and technical health, and using it to decide what to invest in, replace or retire.
Architectural Driver
The small subset of requirements and constraints that actually shape the structure of the system.
Capability Map
A structured view of everything a business does, used as the stable frame for mapping applications, investment, ownership and gaps.
Load Shedding
Deliberately rejecting a portion of incoming work during overload so that the remainder can be served correctly.
Priority Queueing
Classifying requests by business importance so that overload sheds the least valuable work first rather than an arbitrary slice.
Technical Debt
The future cost incurred by choosing an expedient implementation now instead of the better one.
You inherit an estate of roughly 400 applications, no reliable inventory, and a mandate to reduce cost and risk. What do you do in the first ninety days?
What the interviewer is testing Whether you can sequence work at portfolio scale, and whether you go for evidence before strategy. This is the enterprise archit
Your service will exceed capacity by 30% during a known peak. Do you shed load or brown out, and how do you decide what goes first?
The decision Brown out first; shed only if that is not enough. They are complementary rather than alternatives, and brownout is strictly less harmful when it is
Portfolio Prioritisation
Choosing between investments with incomparable benefits.
Application Portfolio Management
Inventory, ownership, cost and health for every application.
Prioritisation
Choosing what not to do, and defending it.
Application Architecture
The application estate as a designed portfolio rather than an accumulation.
Enterprise Architecture
General material on architecture at portfolio and estate scale.
HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 & HTTP/3
Multiplexing, prioritisation and the transport each is built on.
Multi-Cloud
Best-of-breed, portfolio and portable — three very different costs.