FY2017 PROPOSED BUDGET

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Proposed FY2017 Budget
Chapter 3
Risk Management
Establishment of IT-wide risk management framework that addresses risks related to the business
processes and projects. IT-QA will be developing a consistent process for managing the lifecycle
of corporate risk for the IT department, including developing processes for identifying and
cataloging risks, and assessing these risks for proper response.
Change Management
With the enhancement and facilitation of the Change Control Board, IT-QA will be looking into
ways to standardize and improve the change management process for the IT department for
process, cost, and time efficiencies.
Timekeeping Business Analysis, Quality Assurance and Testing
In support of Timekeeping Automation project, the IT-QA office will be refining and decomposing
business requirements for development and creating and executing test cases for validating system.
The IT-QA team will also be supporting the quality assurance aspects of this project by developing
and implementing a QA plan that includes auditing the project activities for consistency against
IT department’s established SDLC framework and setting up the change control process for
managing the project business and technical requirements.
Enterprise Architecture
A newly established IT organization to facilitate development and translation of business vision
and strategy into effective organizational change (through opportunity realization). Its vision is to
align business, information, application, and technology architectural landscapes of the enterprise
through the office of IT’s Strategic Plan, Business Plan and Principles and thus to the goals of
WMATA. The OEA will deliver value to its stakeholders by presenting IT leadership with
recommendations for adjusting architectural decisions, IT assets and service acquisition strategies
(investment plans), governing policies and implementation plans to achieve target business
outcomes that capitalize on relevant business disruptions. Additionally, the OEA is mandated to
establish and operate a scalable and highly available enterprise-wide real-time/on-demand data
exchange gateway and data sharing infrastructure.
Service Oriented Architecture
The Vision of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) program is to establish a future-state
integration platform using Enterprise Service Bus Architecture that fulfills the integration needs
within the enterprise. To establish a SOA Centre of Excellence to research through the
technological advancements in SOA world and propagates its benefits within the enterprise
through tools, techniques, best practices, and effective governance policies.
Business Intelligence Program
In FY20167, we plan to focus on expanding our capabilities for predictive modeling, especially in
the various maintenance functions of Metro, and on continuing to integrate asset, maintenance,
operations, weather, and ridership data to support the ability to predict and analyze. This will
involve some redesign of existing repositories as well as design of new ones, such as a rail data
mart. As always, much of our effort will involve resolving data quality issues and making
decisions about how best to source the data required for each particular purpose.
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