IT Planning and Management Guides

Will it take a heroic effort?
These IT Planning and Management Guides contain the help you need to meet your HS IT challenges.

It takes the collective experience of many people, working as a team, to deliver effective solutions on time and within budget but Human Services programs are constantly evolving. Existing systems, many built decades ago, are often unable to successfully deal with both the pace of change and the innovation required. New technologies hold promise but must be applied in a practical manner. When we consider that systems deployed today stand a good chance of existing in the Year 2010 and beyond, it makes good sense to plan accordingly.

The purpose of the IT Planning and Management Guides is to:

• Organize the essential IT management and engineering practices that must be performed to ensure long-term IT survival
• Assemble and pass on the collective experiences of State IT professionals
• Help you manage the risks inherent in developing long-lasting, mission-critical systems

The IT Planning and Management Guides are presented as a set of hyperlinked documents. A Printable Version is available as a set of PDF documents. The foundations section for the Guides describes how the IT Planning and Management Guides are organized and can be used.

Vision

The vision of the IT Planning and Management guides entails:

• Evolving information technology to meet the changing world of Human Services
• Enabling States to rapidly and efficiently satisfy emerging Human Service needs, by building upon flexible, readily adaptable applications that reduce the risk of significant effort to evolve.
  
  
  

Foundations Establishes the context for understanding, using, and applying the IT Planning and Management Guides consistently in different situations.

Strategic IT Planning and Management Guide Envision the journey, set a course to the future, and navigate in dynamic business and technology environments

Technical Architecture Guide Establish the evolving technical blueprint and accompanying guidelines to manage the integration and interoperability of the old with the new across the HS Agency

Technical Evolution Guide Defining and managing the IT projects in an integrated plan that coordinates the evolution of the HS IT assets according to the HS IT Strategic Plan and the HS Agency's Technical Architecture.

Technology Fabrication Projects Guide Construct needed technology solutions - building anew, repairing the old, or migrating IT assets to a more capable platform - integrating the old with the new.

Technology Deployment Guide Construct needed technology solutions - building anew, repairing the old, or migrating IT assets to a more capable platform - integrating the old with the new.

Technical Operations Guide Use the technology to serve the HS Agency mission, keep it operating efficiently, and continuously collect and analyze data to identify opportunities for improvement.

Consolidated Definitions and References A consistent set of terms, process framework definitions and references apply across all the IT Planning and Management Guides. An initial set of resources such as templates, samples, checklists, and other items are also provided to implement the activities defined by the process framework for each guide. These items are described below.