AB 2523, as amended, Cooley. Department of Technology.
Existing law establishes the Department of Technology, within the Government Operations Agency, headed by the Director of Technology, who is also known as the State Chief Information Officer. The department is responsible for the approval and oversight of information technology projects by, among other things, consulting with agencies during initial project planning to ensure that project proposals are based on well-defined programmatic needs and consider feasible alternatives to address the identified needs and benefits consistent with statewide strategies, policies, and procedures.
This bill would require the Director of Technology to review a specified manual and draft a report based on that manual and other specified factors, to be transmitted to certain legislative committees on or before July 1, 2016, that recommends how a team of senior consulting information technology experts could be developed to serve as support for state agencies and senior project team members in state government. This bill would require the director, after transmitting the report, to establish a unit, within the Department of Technology, of consulting information technology experts to serve as support for state agencies. This bill would make legislative findings in this regard.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
The Legislature finds and declares all of the
2following:
3(a) The state has identified the management of large technology
4projects as high risk for the last several decades.
5(b) Large technology projects may take years to develop and,
6similar to issues with a recent technology project for the
7Department of Employment Development, the implementation of
8a project, from conception through implementation, can span
9multiple gubernatorial administrations and include a change in
10senior managers, retirements, and career moves that affect the
11project.
12(c) To address these issues, the state has steadily worked to
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improve its organizational and institutional capacity to manage
14large technology programs. This effort is vital, because at the
15present time, there are over 100 identified information technology
16projects in progress throughout state government in various phases
17of progress and completion.
18(d) An important milestone in this ongoing effort was the July
192013 issuance of the California Project Management Methodology
20Reference Manual completed by the Director of Technology, also
21known as the State Chief Information Officer. The manual breaks
22large information technology projects into the phases of initial
23concept, initiating, planning, executing, and closing. The manual
24emphasizes that the critical role throughout these phases is with
25the attendant management duties of monitoring and controlling to
P3 1ensure the project is advancing in accordance with budget and
2outcome expectations. The manual highlights the critical role of
3the project management
team, which includes the distinct roles of
4the executive sponsor, project steering committees, project director,
5and project manager.
6(e) The difficulty of maintaining continuity among senior project
7leadership is highlighted by the experience of a recent technology
8project for the Department of Employment Development, which
9began under Governor Davis, continued under Governor
10Schwarzenegger, and is now being implemented under Governor
11Brown. In addition, testimonybegin delete beforeend deletebegin insert duringend insert the Assembly
12Committee on Insurance oversight hearing made clear the project
13has lost key personnel during the project course to retirement and
14career transfer.
15(f) The state would benefit from the development of a
senior
16cadre of information technology consultative expertise in the
17Department of Technology who can serve as technologybegin delete advisorsend delete
18begin insert advisersend insert to executive sponsors and otherbegin delete senior levelend deletebegin insert senior-levelend insert
19 persons charged with project implementation throughout state
20government.
The heading of Chapter 5.6 (commencing with Section
2211545) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code
23 is amended to read:
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Section 11547.5 is added to the Government Code, to
28read:
(a) On or before July 1, 2016, the Director of
30Technology shall transmit a report, pursuant to subdivision (b),
31recommending how a team of senior consulting information
32technology experts could be developed to serve as support for state
33agencies and senior project team members in state government to
34support their exercise of leadership, monitoring, control, and
35direction over information technology projects to minimize risks
36of those projects being completed improperly and over budget. In
37preparing the report, the Director of Technology shall review the
38California Project Management Methodology Reference Manual.
39The report shall be based on the review of that manual and shall
40also consider how a team of senior consultingbegin delete advisorsend deletebegin insert
advisersend insert
P4 1 can assist senior executives charged with oversight of major
2information technology projects in terms of the challenges arising
3from all of the following:
4(1) Governance.
5(2) Development and management of contracts.
6(3) Testing.
7(4) Organizational change management.
8(5) Data conversion and migration.
9(6) Schedule development and management.
10(7) Evaluation and possible pitfalls of seeking value for
11taxpayers bybegin delete re-engineeringend deletebegin insert
reengineeringend insert state systems and
12procedures.
13(8) Risk and issue identification and management.
14(9) Interface identification and management.
15(10) Quality assurance and quality control.
16(11) Requirements definition and management.
17(12) Architecture.
18(13) Roll-out planning and approach.
19(b) The report shall be transmitted tobegin delete all legislative committees begin insert
the Senate Committee on Governmental
20with jurisdiction over state information technology, including, but
21not limited to,end delete
22Organization andend insert the Assembly Committee on Accountability and
23Administrative Review, in compliance with Section 9795.
24(c) After transmitting the report pursuant to subdivision (b), the
25Director of Technology shall establish a unit, within the
26Department of Technology, of consulting information technology
27experts to serve as support for state agencies.
This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
29immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
30the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
31immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
32To facilitate early support for ongoing technology projects, it is
33necessary for this act to take effect immediately.
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