| End-user Presentations: Gain Insights into the City of Stirling's Approach to Staffing and Learn about Tomago's Modernisation Strategy | |
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009
16:40-17:40 | |
Speakers: Peter Bennington, Christine Cameron
Moderator: Greta A. James
Session Type: End-User Case Study Session
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Understanding the Applications Skills Set: Retaining Staff, Increasing Productivity and Delivering Value
With a population fast approaching 189,000 and a total land area of over 100km², the City of Stirling is one of Western Australia's major local government authorities. In this case study Peter will describe the initiatives introduced to change the culture of the IT department and address the skills shortage. Some of these initiatives include, ensuring the governance framework to manage workloads efficiently, creating positive team dynamics by being transparent about roles and responsibilities, setting achievable key performance indicators, maintaining good relationships with contactors so that additional staff can be sourced in times of high demand and setting the right expectations with the business.
Peter Bennington, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Corporate Information Services, City of Stirling
Finding the Right Solution when Modernising Applications
With application modernisation it is not a case of one solution for all situations and there are many factors to take into consideration; when to modernise, getting business buy-in and determining which solution is the most cost effective. Tomago Aluminum, a joint venture by Australian and overseas companies, and has had to overcome many challenges in upgrading and replacing legacy applications during the last five years. In this case study, Christine will discuss the different solutions that have been used and the lessons that have been learnt in the modernising process.
Christine Cameron, IT Manager, Tomago Aluminum |
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