Build the Business by Building an Infrastructure Roadmap
Build the Business by Building an Infrastructure Roadmap
Move beyond alignment: Put yourself in the driver’s seat for true business value.
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Infrastructure often struggles to keep up with the pace of change the business demands:
Business is frustrated with Infrastructure’s slowness
Shadow IT is rampant
It’s impossible to get budget for projects
Your team is constantly overloaded with work
By taking a proactive approach Infrastructure can partner with the business to deliver improved value:
Better communication with business stakeholders
Improved business satisfaction
Better alignment of Infrastructure work with business goals
Improved balance between care and feeding and new technology initiatives
Module 1: Conduct an Organizational Analysis
The Purpose
Assess staffing resources and align Infrastructure work with business goals.
Key Benefits Achieved
Improved alignment with stakeholders.
More accurate understanding of staffing resources.
Activities:
Outputs:
1.1
Evaluate the organizational design.
1.2
Do a time study.
Domain time study
1.3
Analyze Infrastructure's intake process.
Intake analysis
1.4
Identify roadblocks.
Prioritized list of roadblocks
1.5
Review business outcome responses.
1.6
Postulate goals.
List of goals
1.7
Perform an initiative-to-goal mapping and analysis.
Module 2: Analyze Technology
The Purpose
Balance care and feeding of current technology with assessment for new technology initiatives.
Key Benefits Achieved
Clearer picture of existing care and feeding commitments
Structured evaluation of potential new technologies that may add business value
Activities:
Outputs:
2.1
Develop a risk framework.
IT and business risk frameworks
2.2
Evaluate existing inventory.
Infrastructure inventory assessment
2.3
Develop a new technology identification process.
2.4
Develop a technology evaluation framework.
2.5
Conduct SWOT analyses.
New technology analyses
Module 3: Build the Roadmap
The Purpose
Visualize a snapshot of your portfolio of work and communicate it to key stakeholders.
Key Benefits Achieved
Improved grasp of work in progress
Closer partnership with the business
Improved focus on business value
Activities:
Outputs:
3.1
Build effective initiative templates.
Initiative templates
3.2
Generate new initiatives.
Initiative candidates
3.3
Repatriate shadow IT initiatives.
3.4
Finalize initiative candidates.
Roadmap visualization
Module 4: Improve the Process
The Purpose
Iterate the roadmap process for continual improvement.
Key Benefits Achieved
A more efficient roadmap process that achieves better results with less effort
Activities:
Outputs:
4.1
Build the report.
Infrastructure Roadmap Report
4.2
Build a schedule of conversations.
Process schedule
4.3
Strategize on how to win support.
Communications strategy
4.4
Optimize the process.
Process map
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