Regal Technology Road Maps

Discovering the Regal path towards an efficient and stable infrastructure

The Regal Technology Road Map is a tool used to review an organization’s current infrastructure and applications – utilizing acquired information to implement a suited map for the progression of their IT departments and infrastructure as a whole. Regal is able to take a snapshot, detailing the complete summary of the current environment, and future developments, for the next 60 months - all on a single Visio page.

Components analyzed within the Regal Technology Road Maps

· LAN/WAN

· Directory

· Storage

· Backup, Recovery, Systems

· Applications (Tier1, Tier2, Tier3)

· Servers

· Desktops

· Maintenance and Support

· Security

The information Regal collects is highly detailed, including version numbers for software and other important information such as whether it is under maintenance.

Timeframe

Regal Technology Road Maps can be summarized into 5 time periods;

· Now (next 3 months)

· 3-6 months

· 6-12 months

· 12 – 24 months

· 24 – 60 months

This stage of the Regal TRMs highlights certain projects to be completed by the IT department staff and contractors. Next to each project heading is the person and/or company that will be responsible for the work. Regal IT recommends that everyone involved with the network, hardware, software and systems all attend.

Through the process of Regal’s TRMs, organizations will gain a clear understanding of roles and responsibilities in terms of whole departments, as well as those of individual team members.

These Road Maps, in the form of single page documents, can be passed up the organization - highlighting the work and value of the IT department. We recommend the process be conducted on a quarterly basis with the team. Once projects are completed they are removed from the TRM, with new projects added and existing projects reprioritized.

The session is run by Regal IT but all the input comes from the team. We are only the facilitators in the exercise and will only make comments based on best practice and product knowledge. We typically need about 3-4 hours for the first session and further sessions will be no longer than 2 hours.