IT Process and Governance

Stricter financial reporting requirements, changing technology, organizational realignment, not to mention organizing and keeping up with the sheer volume of IT requests, are driving robust accountability and reporting requirements into the IT development processes.

Mergers and acquisitions provide an even greater challenge. IT processes evolve to meet unique organizational and cultural needs. Sorting out two completely different and valid approaches to deliering IT services, coupled to two approaches to governing those processes, is a challenge indeed - and a critical one, if any synergy benefit from Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) is to be achieved in a reasonable time-frame.

Governance structures that approve and track the flow of work in the IT development pipeline are often surprisingly informal, undocumented, and loosely applied. Rigor in process documentation, modeling and monitoring is lacking; few consistent measures of quality or performance exist; no common repositories of project status exist. The net result is inconsistent and unpredictable results of widely varying quality.

Further, the changing landscape of IT technology - particularly Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) have raised the bar on IT functions. Who provides which service to the enterprise? What happens to consumers of a service, when it changes? How should approvals and funding be adjudicated across organizational responsibilities, when a service change must occur?

SIBRIDGE provides clients with a means of developing and deploying rigorous, accountable and manageable IT governance processes, supporting both the overarching delivery needs of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and the fiscal reporting and approval needs of governance.

Through rigorous process modeling and documentation, based on hands-on experience with many different enterprise and industry-accepted process models and methodology, SIBRIDGE consultants are ideally equipped to identify key gaps and improvements to existing processes – or to develop entirely new ones.

Contact SBRIDGE today to determine how effective SDLC and governance approaches can be developed for your enterprise.