Deployment
Manage IT employee deployment into specific roles.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Deployment at each level of maturity.
- 1Initial
- Practice
- Rely on the best endeavours of available personnel.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Deploy IT employees and match resources to vacancies, by looking at personal and professional attributes of employees.
- Outcome
- Resources and vacancies are matched based on the organization's needs.
- Metric
- % of resources matched to vacancies.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Establish a committee, comprising representatives from IT and some other business units, to prioritize staffing needs based on predefined criteria (e.g. the balance between business and technical skill requirements, and between individual development needs and interests).
- Outcome
- Resources and vacancies are matched based on the organization's needs and the interests and development needs of the employees.
- Metrics
- % of resources matched to vacancies.
- % of deployment decisions taken by a committee.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Align the deployment process with the business strategy organization-wide.
- Outcome
- The deployment process is aligned with all other business unit needs.
- Metric
- Frequency of alignment reviews.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Regularly revise and optimize the deployment process, based on input from the business ecosystem.
- Outcome
- The deployment process is kept up-to-date and relevant.
- Metric
- Frequency of reviews.