Summary

In this chapter, we examined the area of IT governance. We sat with the CIO and Chief Security Officer of Infission Corporation. We reviewed the corporate strategy with them, helped them in developing an IT strategy that is consistent with it, and documented this strategy in Oracle's balanced scorecard.

Next, we took an inventory of the current and proposed IT projects, and went through a portfolio analysis. We also looked at the financial projections of the projects and reviewed the alignment between the projects and the scorecard that we helped develop. We helped the CIO see the ranking of the projects with respect to both financial and non-financial metrics using Oracle Portfolio Analysis. We also saw where the funding for those projects runs out, canceling those projects, or otherwise identifying what funding would be needed in order to pursue those projects.

Next, we sat with the IT Director to ensure that the configuration of the systems is base-lined at an agreed state and that...