NU 394 Project: Team Name

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NU 394 Project ltTeam Namegt

• Assignment 1Current ltDevLab/Departmentgt
  Findings

April 29, 2002
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Table of Contents

• Context
• Findings
• Data
• Application
• Development
• Network
• Security
• Execution
• Operations

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Agenda
Context Findings
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ContextWhat are we trying to support?

• Functions of a Department
• Class
• Registration
• Class Descriptions
• Class/Resource Scheduling
• Test management/Grades and Grade reporting
• Lecture document organization web sites
• Class Projects software development, document
  development, code/doc management
• General communications email, instant
  messaging, newsgroups, chat and phone/voice mail
• Research
• Manage/Approve submissions, i.e. portfolio
  management
• Software development capabilities
• Document Management capabilities

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ContextWhat are we trying to support?

• Functions of a DevLab
• Project Transfer
• From Info Lab
• From other entity
• To free standing company
• Development
• Marketing
• Programming
• Remote development
• Finance
• Monitoring/tracking/negotiating the deal
• Infrastructure
• Human Resources
• Accounting

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Agenda
Context Findings
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What is DEADONS?The DEADONS framework organizes
enterprise IT components, process and skills into
logical groupings
Operations
Security
Development
Applications
Data
Execution
Network

• Applications Provides the definition,
  specification, and location of business processes
  and the supporting infrastructure components
• Data Provides the tools, services and strategy
  to address data definition and layout, data
  location and redundancy decisions, data
  update/refresh approach, data security, data
  backup and recovery and DBMS performance
• Execution Provides a structured environment and
  services for executing application and business
  processes

• Network Provides reliable wide area network
  (WAN) and local area network (LAN) services
• Operations Provides a combination of tools,
  support services, controls and procedures
  required to manage the operation of the
  production, execution and development
  environments
• Development Provides a unified collection of
  tools, techniques, and methodologies used to
  build and integrate applications
• Security Provides coordinated application,
  system, and network level security functions and
  management

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DEADONS helps to
organize this!
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DEADONS is commonly grouped into two areas,
Infrastructure Software architecture
ExecutionArchitecture
OperationsArchitecture
DataArchitecture
NetworkArchitecture
DevelopmentArchitecture
SecurityArchitecture
ApplicationArchitecture
Infrastructure Architecture
Software Architecture
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Summary
Over the past three weeks, the ltyour project team
name heregt team conducted x interviews with y
people. Through the interviews, we have assessed
the current NU As-Is architecture against
DEADONS model.
Application
Development
Security
Operations
Data
Execution
Network
Sufficient
Needs Attention
Problem Area
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DEADONS Assessment Summary

• Data
• No data standards in place. Data models are owned
  by each individual team. No standard database
  products to use, nor standard repository to store
  DML/DDL
• Application
• Multiple applications performing similar
  functionalities are often selected and used by
  different business units. Those applications
  often were built using different technologies and
  run on different platforms
• Software purchase and selection are done without
  clear department-wide/DevLab vision. Software
  selection often based on gut feeling

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DEADONS Assessment Summary

• Development
• Lack of an enterprise wide adopted software
  development methodology
• No development tool standards in place to guide
  development process
• Obsolete development tools still being used with
  no sunset strategy in place
• Acquired development tools are not fully utilized
  
• Security
• The manual process to create a new user ID across
  platforms and applications is cumbersome and
  difficult due to the multiple systems and
  handoffs required
• Passwords are not synchronized across different
  systems. Users must remember multiple passwords
  for different systems
• Security has not yet been the top priority for
  application development projects. As more and
  more applications move online, a standard process
  must be put in place to insure the design and
  development of a secure application

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DEADONS Assessment Summary

• Network
• Investigate the use of LAN network performance
  management tools to assist in overall service
  level management
• Identify and select an SNMP trapping tool
• Network and voice infrastructure in need of
  upgrade
• Execution
• To standardize server environment on both
  hardware and software level, regular down time
  should be scheduled with business units to allow
  O/S and database patches being applied
• Environment often over engineered to be
  NU-nized which increases management complexity
  and decreases ability to switch to different
  technology

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DEADONS Assessment Summary

• Operations
• Disaster Recovery has been mainly around
  mainframe. D/R site does not have enough
  processing power to bring up all the Unix
  servers. If disaster hits Chicago Data Center, NU
  might never be able to recover
• Existing organization structure has not enabled
  use of advanced cross-platform storage tools