Documents/NASAIRM/4: Resources and Processes/4.3: Best Practices

4.3: Best Practices

Develop and improve enterprise best practices for governance, shared services, capital planning, IT project management, and performance management.

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The effectiveness of IT investment selection, program and project governance, and performance measurement provides the backbone for NASA’s information technology decision making. The use of boards with diverse stakeholder representation will help strategically to ensure that IT at NASA becomes increasingly customer-oriented while continuing alignment with NASA’s mission and the capital planning and investment (CPIC) process. Alignment with the governance component of OMB’s IT Reforms sets the stage for NASA to collaborate internally and externally to improve investment, program, and performancebased governance in concert with other Federal Agencies. Intuitive practices and shared services such as the use of a common model to fund Agency IT services and centralization of functions that manage contract administration, funding, and service level reporting are key areas for evaluation. Our aim is to provide timely strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making, with transparent, clear, and concise results that are communicated effectively across our stakeholders.

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