What does the ASP Complete Self-Assessment include?
The ASP Complete Self-Assessment includes 60+ digital files delivered by email within 24 business hours: 904 ASP-specific assessment questions across seven domains (Recognise, Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control, Sustain), an interactive Excel dashboard with automated scoring and radar charts, a gap analysis matrix, RACI templates, a custom reporting engine, and a structured playbook with sections covering self-assessment, execution, governance, and sustainment. The package also includes Platinum Tier files: a master operations playbook, 90-day roadmap, implementation template, anti-pattern catalogue, and outcomes dashboard.
Are you operating with blind spots in your Application Services and Portfolio (ASP) practices, risking project failure, compliance breaches, and wasted technology investment? The ASP Complete Self-Assessment is the definitive professional development resource that delivers a 904-question, standards-aligned diagnostic framework to immediately uncover hidden inefficiencies, benchmark maturity, and secure your organisation’s digital delivery capability. Without a rigorous, evidence-based evaluation tool, you risk undetected process gaps, misaligned IT spending, audit findings, and loss of stakeholder confidence, especially during transformation, regulatory scrutiny, or vendor reviews. This field-tested playbook gives you the exact instruments to diagnose, prioritise, and act with authority across every phase of the ASP lifecycle: Recognise, Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control, and Sustain.
What You Receive
- A 904-question ASP maturity assessment in XLSX format, organised across seven process design domains, enabling you to identify capability gaps with precision and assign risk-weighted scores within minutes
- An interactive Excel dashboard with automated scoring, radar visualisations, and real-time benchmarking for up to 10 participants, so you can compare team responses, spot consensus gaps, and validate operational readiness
- A comprehensive gap analysis matrix (XLSX) that maps every assessment question to its corresponding ASP outcome, control objective, and best-practice standard, ensuring full traceability and audit preparedness
- Pre-built RACI templates embedded in the dashboard to define accountabilities across improvement initiatives, reducing role ambiguity and accelerating governance alignment
- A custom reporting engine (XLSX) that generates stakeholder-ready PDF summaries, executive briefings, and department-level insights with one click, saving hours in communication and escalation cycles
- Case-based assessment questions grounded in real-world application service scenarios, so you test practical decision-making, not just theory, across incident response, service ownership, cost optimisation, and lifecycle governance
- Access to the full 60+ file digital playbook delivered via email within 24 business hours, including the Platinum Tier master files: 90-day adoption roadmap, ASP implementation playbook, anti-pattern catalogue, outcomes dashboard, and sustainment runbook
- Structured folder system with 01_Getting_Started guide, 02_Self_Assessment_and_Diagnostics worksheets, 03_Requirements_and_Goal_Setting templates, 04_Models_and_Frameworks references, 06_Processes_and_Execution playbooks (15+ files), 07_Performance_and_KPIs dashboards, 08_Quality_and_Governance audit tools, 09_Sustainment_and_Improvement frameworks, and 11_Reference_and_Quick_Cards for rapid recall
How This Helps You
You gain an immediate, defensible view of your ASP maturity, no consultants, no delays. The 904-question assessment pinpoints where your service delivery model is fragile, over-resourced, or non-compliant, so you can justify remediation spend with data, not opinion. The automated dashboard turns raw input into executive-grade insights, enabling faster consensus and targeted action. By identifying process breakdowns in areas like service ownership, cost transparency, or lifecycle controls, you prevent budget overruns, failed audits, and service outages. Inaction means continuing to operate with invisible risks, misaligned portfolios, unowned services, inefficient handoffs, that erode IT credibility and delay strategic outcomes. With this toolkit, you shift from reactive firefighting to proactive governance, ensuring your application services directly enable business resilience and innovation.
Who Is This For?
- Application portfolio managers responsible for rationalising legacy systems, optimising TCO, and aligning services with business capabilities
- IT service managers and operations leads who need to strengthen service ownership, improve incident resolution, and demonstrate operational maturity
- Enterprise architects validating the coherence of their service landscape, integration patterns, and lifecycle governance practices
- IT governance and digital transformation leads preparing for internal audit, ISO 27001, or COBIT compliance reviews involving application controls
- Technology consultants and advisory practitioners delivering ASP assessments, benchmarking engagements, or service improvement programmes for clients
This is the professional standard for ASP evaluation, a complete, evidence-based system used by leading organisations to maintain control, ensure compliance, and drive measurable improvement. By acquiring the ASP Complete Self-Assessment, you’re not buying a checklist; you’re adopting a proven methodology to audit, strengthen, and communicate the value of your application services with confidence.