IT Automation: The Quest for Lights Out

Administrative Process Deployment

As described in Chapter Four: Design and Planning, the design phase of the technical and administrative components share the methodology for evaluation and selection of technology. So also the deployment of the technology to support the administrative processes follows the same series of steps used to automate the technology architecture components. The narrative below describes the steps required to execute the redesign of the administrative process components, which is a complex and resource-dependent activity.

Refer once again to the mock project plan that contains summary tasks and milestones (see Figure 7-2)

Figure 7.2. Sample Automation Project Plan—Administrative Process Deployment

Inventory

To begin, ...