22: CIOs and CIOC

Redefine role of Agency CIOs and Federal CIO Council

Other Information:

Currently, Agency CIOs and the Federal CIO Council spend a majority of their mindshare on policymaking and maintaining IT infrastructure. As we move forward with the IT reforms, CIO focus must shift towards portfolio management. This shift will be encouraged by activities such as the restructuring of the Investment Review Boards. Similarly, agencies will be increasingly freed from low-value activities (e.g., building redundant infrastructure) as they adopt technologies such as cloud computing. Agencies will turnaround or terminate at least one-third of poorly performing projects in their portfolio within the next 18 months.

Stakeholder(s):

• Agency CIOs: * Agency CIOs will be responsible for managing the portfolio of large IT projects within their agencies. This portfolio management role will include continuously identifying unmet needs to be addressed by new projects, terminating or turning around poorly performing projects, and retiring IT investments which no longer meet the needs of the organization. Steps will include: * As described above, Agency CIOs will take on responsibility for the “TechStat” governance process within their agencies as of March 2011.


• Federal CIO Council: The Federal CIO Council will play a similar portfolio management role, but at a cross-agency level. Within six months, the Federal CIO Council will periodically review the highest priority “TechStat” findings assembled by the Agency CIOs. These reviews will enable CIOs to share best practices and common sources of failure to improve success rates over time.

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