Project Approach Following is a description of the major activities anticipated in this project. Project startup Presentation to staff to describe the project Fill positions Complete project charter and the project plan. Review the completed charter with the Steering Committee. Refine and detail the approach that will be used to complete the deliverables. The study identified over forty areas which need processes, standards, roles and responsibilities defined to insure we can develop, operate and maintain open systems in a distributed environment.
Processes are a means to manage the gaps within and around our functional areas.
Ignoring the recommendation would imply that the gaps do not exist and that our process are well defined enough to move forward building more open systems in our current manner. Clearly the Production Environment project team's result did not indicate this to be true. Defining repeatable measurable processes will enable continuous improvement. Roles and responsibilities and organizational boundaries will be clearly defined. Other benefits can be found in the project presentation material.