Prioritize the recommendations
After running the assessment and with all the information you also gathered from the Azure Advisor and other tools, you may end up with a huge list of recommendations that can contain a few hundred items, depending on how many pillars you are analyzing.
Now, this is the most important step of the process. You need to prioritize the recommendations and decide which ones you want to implement first, which are important for the business and which ones can be implemented later.
WARP Tools
When you filled the assessment, we asked you to store the results as a CSV
file, now it’s time to use the WARP tool to help us with the
recommendation prioritization. If you have opened the generated csv you may
have noticed that there’s a ponderation score for each recommendation. This
score is used from a script that will create for you a PowerPoint presentation
with a preliminary selection of the most important recommendations.
Go to the WARP website and follow the instructions to download, install and run the tool.
The Eissenhower Matrix
Another useful tool to help you prioritize the recommendations is the
Eisenhower Decisson Matrix that divides tasks between
Important and Not important in the y axis and Urgent and Not urgent in the x
axis. For this specific example, we will modify the axes and call them
Business Value and Execution Complexity:
Checkpoint
- Prioritized Matrix
- Details of the prioritization
When you have finished these two tasks, continue to the Roadmap step.