SIGB Communiqué - October 2009
The members of the Secretaries’ ICT Governance Board met on 16 October 2009.
Topics discussed at the meeting included the following:
Strategic Vision Statement
The Board agreed to hold a series of round table discussions with CIOs, agency heads and Ministers to develop a whole of government vision statement for ICT. The Minister for Finance and Deregulation, the Hon Lindsay Tanner MP, will chair the round tables.
Whole of Government Data Centre Strategy
The Board noted the work underway to deliver the data centre strategy including progress on reports commissioned to provide an analysis of the Government’s demand for data centres, technology trends and the Australian data centre marketplace.
ICT Customisation and Bespoke Development Policy
The Board agreed to the ICT Customisation and Bespoke Development Policy to reduce the percentage of customised and bespoke solutions across government, leverage the government’s investment in existing and future ICT solutions, and increase opportunities to standardise government business processes and systems.
View the Customisation and Bespoke Development policy.
Improve Agency Capability – adopting and implementing the Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Maturity Model (P3M3) as the Common Organisational Capability Assessment Methodology
The Board agreed to roll-out P3M3 in Financial Management and Accountability Act (1997) (FMA Act) agencies with annual ICT expenditure in excess of $2 million per annum as a methodology for assessing agency organisational capability. The Board also agreed that Finance should organise a workshop for pilot agencies to share their experiences on the implementation and use of P3M3 with other agencies.
Strategic Management of Key ICT Suppliers
The Board agreed the Strategic ICT Supplier Management Framework. The Framework will provide a whole-of-government perspective to the management of key ICT suppliers, identifying key and emerging issues, trends and concerns in the ICT supplier market place that may affect the government’s strategic objectives
View the Strategic ICT Supplier Management (SISM) Framework policy.
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