Does the Tragedy of the Commons apply to application portfolios? Many business and application leaders are known to address a bloated application portfolio. They should look at the decades of research in a widely known economic problem, The Tragedy of the commons, for guidance. We discuss here today what The Tragedy of the commons mean.
Application leaders have struggled to achieve meaningful outcomes from application rationalization efforts as they do not have the authority to standardize business processes. The state they are in has parallels…