What does your IT governance look like?

[Speculator]

Hi all,

 

I've got a question for you. It doesn't quite fit under the "Technical" heading, but it's a a "how do you do it", so here it is:

 

I'd like to know what your structure of IT Governance and decision making looks like in your school. We've been doing the same thing for 15 years now and I'm starting to wonder if it's outdated. So, to use my school as an example:

 

We have an oversight committee that includes the ICT Manager (chair), our head of Learning and Teaching, Business Manager, E-Learning person, and two general teachers. This body reports to the Principal, who has final say, and often turns up to meetings too. The main areas of responsibility for the committee are budget, policy and strategic planning. Most of the time we're bogged down in budget, policy and logistics though. Two members of the committee are part of the Faculty Heads team, two are part of the Leadership Team, which is supposed to feed information to and from those groups. Aside from that we form working parties to address other needs around new projects and deployments.

 

So anyway, I'd like to hear what others are doing around this sort of formalised decision making, if you can spare a minute.

 

Thanks.

[Sagima]

That is basically what we have although it has been under review for the past two years noone has come up with another way that everyone can agree on

[CyberNerd]

We have a Digital Technologies Committee that is headed by our lead practitioner for ICT.

It is attended by: Head teacher, Bursar, Network Manager, A Deputy Head, Communications Manager. The committee meets about three times per term.

 

Day to day decisions are made by the Network Manager or the Lead Practitioner, but anything requiring new equipment (extra money), policy decisions, or anything out of the ordinary are referred to the committee. We used to have a sub-committee to handle change requests (CAB), but the technical team is much smaller now so these are considered ad-hoc.