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1. One of the most critical but sometimes most difficult pieces of information to get is the Business Owner. If the IT group doesn't know this at the outset, start working on this as soon as the application itself is identified.
2. You can work in parallel to get Business value and Cost information once the applications are idnetified.

General Questions

1. Why are we embarking on an application inventory?
   1. The inventory is a critical first step in
2. What is central IT planning to do with the data that is collected?
   1. The ASI project group lead by Dave Koehler will analyze the data to look for opportunities for service centralization, under-utilization of existing central services, and obsolete or unused systems. They will make recommendations to the unit IT groups, but will not prescribe a course of action.
3. What is in it for the units?
   1. The data collected is primarily for use by the units. Although the project group will make recommendations, it is up to the management of each unit to use the data as it sees fit. This is the unit's data.

Effort

1. How long will it take me to fill out the inventory?
   1. The inventory list itself has varied, depending on the number of applications and the structure and record-keeping of the IT group. Once the list of applications is in hand, it takes about an hour to an hour and a half for the IT group to determine the cost information and about the same amount of time for a BA to determine the business value. So total effort is 2-3 hours per application not including functional people's time.
2. What if I don't have any BAs to do the Business Value scoring?
   1. Contact Greg Busby (gkb3) to discuss BA support; do this early as resources may be limited. We can provide some assistance, and can train someone in the IT group or from a business group to do the interviewing as well.

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