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Please note that the content on this page is retired. This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.Immature or non-existent IT resource strategy causes:
- Decreased ability to complete projects on time
- Increased costs
- Low employee morale due to high degree of overtime
- Poor reputation in the business
- Inability to demonstrate the need for increased budget or staff
A formalized IT resource strategy results in:
- Increased visibility into IT value
- Optimized spending
- Demonstrated proof of resource need
- Improved client satisfaction
- Improved employee morale and limited firefighting
- Improved project management metrics
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Module 1: Make the Case for Optimizing Your Resource Strategy
The Purpose
- Identify key pain points faced by IT.
- Identify IT resourcing goals and metrics.
- Identify strategy opportunities.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Communicate the challenges and opportunities of completing this project.
- Gain a high-level view of resource maturity in your organization.
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1.1 | Identify resourcing pain points |
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1.2 | Identify key goals and metrics |
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1.3 | Identify your desired maturity level |
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1.4 | Develop the project purpose statement |
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Module 2: Develop a Resource Management Strategy
The Purpose
- Identify people and technology capacity and demand for the organization.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Completed data collection on the organizational needs and capacity for people and technology.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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2.1 | Interview stakeholders |
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2.2 | Review survey results |
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2.3 | Conduct requirements gathering exercises |
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2.4 | Aggregate results |
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Module 3: Optimize and Leverage the Strategy
The Purpose
- Review the first draft of the IT resource strategy, and identify opportunities where you can optimize and leverage the reports.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understand optimization techniques.
- Optimize the resource strategy.
- Identify opportunities to leverage the strategy.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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3.1 | Review the utilization graphs |
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3.2 | Identify optimization opportunities |
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3.3 | Conduct sensitivity testing |
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3.4 | Determine report use cases |
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