IT Engagement Model

One of the key ingredient for success is clearly defining the roles and responsibilities within IT. There are multiple stake holders in IT with each doing their best to provide the highest level of support to the business. Most of the time this results in people stepping over each other - especially as there generally is a not a clear definition of everyone's task. Most of the project failures are due to the confusion is the definition of the roles between the PMO, Project Manager and the Enterprise Architects, resulting in responsibilities overlap and lack of making decisions.

It is important to do this in the context of the Services Life Cycle and did publish a short presentation on this topic a couple of months back. This presentations is a summary of the SOA Practitioners Guide Part 3: Introduction to Services Life Cycle with the addition of the IT Engagement Model slide (14) shown below.





This is the RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed) slide listing all the roles and responsiblities of various actors across the services lifecycle. This is pretty generic in nature and could also be applied to non-SOA lifecycles too.

You comments are always welcome and do feel free to drop me line.

- Yogish Pai