Contributions for December Issue of The Best Practice Magazine
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Sustaining Habit & Persistence (SHP) In the CMMI model, the Practice Areas in Sustaining Habit & Persistence (SHP) Capability Area enable a persistent and habitual organization culture. The SHP practices apply to the processes the organization develops and uses and NOT the CMMI practices.
SHP practices address organizational persistence and habit from two different perspectives:
Governance (GOV)
Implementation Infrastructure (II)
Governance (GOV) This Practices Area contains practices senior management performs to promote the way work is accomplished that is relevant and important to the business and the organization.
Implementation Infrastructure (II) This Practice Area describes the necessary infrastructure to build, follow, sustain and improve processes over time.
Agile definitely demonstrated to be the best approach for organizations to keep up with changes that happen due to economic, social or even health sudden new scenarios: companies are able to quicker and better adapt and proactively respond to disruptions. But, as for any changes, it is hard and it is not for free. It implies the acquisition of new competences, skills and behaviors, which should lead to new organizational processes, structures, models. How much does it cost to create new habits replacing the old one? What we can do to accelerate that process towards more agility?
The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a world-class performance improvement framework for competitive organizations that want to achieve high-performance operations. Today, CMMI has become the de facto standard for information and communications technology (ICT) companies to improve operational efficiencies.
CMMI for Development (CMMI-DEV) consists of best practices that address development activities applied to products and services. It addresses practices that cover the product’s life cycle from conception through delivery and maintenance. Organizations from many industries, including aerospace, banking, computer hardware, software, defense, automobile manufacturing and telecommunications, use CMMI-DEV.
It is likely that 2020 will remain in history as the year of COVID-19. The virus has changed everything, affecting personal and professional lives across the globe. Organizations have had to change their ways of working, and as a result, many more people are now working remotely to adhere to social distancing protocols. This has put an extra burden on both public telecommunications infrastructures and each enterprise’s private IT environment.
How could enterprises have been better prepared for this? The answer is IT governance.
Governance links business goals with an enterprise’s IT infrastructure and should be based on guidance such as COBIT® 2019. This framework then needs to be tailored to the enterprise’s needs (design factors): enterprise strategy/goals, risk profile, size, threat landscape, compliance requirements, role of IT, sourcing model for IT, IT implementation methods and technology adoption strategy. Design factors are influenced by management objective priorities and target capability levels, component variation and focus areas (specific governance topics).
Artificial intelligence (AI) is seemingly everywhere, with events such as the COVID-19 pandemic spurring increased investment in AI as organizations accelerate plans to power an increasingly digitally connected workforce. However, upon closer examination, the reality is that many organizations’ investments in AI have yet to pay off. There are myriad reasons contributing to this, including siloed or messy data, overburdened data science or engineering talent and difficulty integrating AI capability into enterprise applications. One significant factor that is often overlooked or swept aside is AI governance.
Governance may not be top of mind when thinking about factors that contribute to increased innovation, but in the case of AI, establishing good governance could be the key to unlocking real value. Rather than thinking of governance as a hindrance, it is helpful to think about it as a set of guardrails and, ultimately, a force multiplier for data science and engineering teams. For the teams on the ground, governance provides preapproved processes to follow, allowing them to move faster and create innovative new solutions. For chief information officers (CIOs) and other stakeholders, governance ensures compliance in the form of auditability and transparency, ultimately yielding higher quality and better performing systems, which, in turn, generate more value.
Rapid advancements in Software Defined Infrastructure and Cloud Computing have rendered IT infrastructure flexible, intangible, and on-demand. However, infrastructure is not yet intelligent and relies on human intervention to understand the correlation between the different IT elements, recognize data trends and take appropriate action. Artificial Intelligence can bring about a transformation in this arena, and eventually initiate infrastructure that is not only self-driven but also flawless.
The Impact of AI on Infrastructure Management Services The disruption caused by AI seeping into every aspect of digital services is quite significant and can have far reaching implications for software development and IT support service providers. Let's look at how it is affecting IT infrastructure management services in particular -
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