Build Your Infrastructure Roadmap
Move beyond alignment: Put yourself in the driver’s seat for true business value.
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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 This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.Infrastructure often struggles to keep up with the pace of change the business demands: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
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
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.
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| 1.1 | Evaluate the organizational design. |
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| 1.2 | Do a time study. |
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| 1.3 | Analyze Infrastructure's intake process. |
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| 1.4 | Identify roadblocks. |
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| 1.5 | Review business outcome responses. |
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| 1.6 | Postulate goals. |
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| 1.7 | Perform an initiative-to-goal mapping and analysis. |
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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: | |
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| 2.1 | Develop a risk framework. |
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| 2.2 | Evaluate existing inventory. |
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| 2.3 | Develop a new technology identification process. |
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| 2.4 | Develop a technology evaluation framework. |
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| 2.5 | Conduct SWOT analyses. |
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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: | |
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| 3.1 | Build effective initiative templates. |
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| 3.2 | Generate new initiatives. |
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| 3.3 | Repatriate shadow IT initiatives. |
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| 3.4 | Finalize initiative candidates. |
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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: | |
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| 4.1 | Build the report. |
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| 4.2 | Build a schedule of conversations. |
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| 4.3 | Strategize on how to win support. |
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| 4.4 | Optimize the process. |
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