2007 Information Resources Deployment Review (IRDR)
What's New
Overview
In an effort to streamline and align the planning, reporting and review of the state's information resources (IR), House Bill 1788 made several changes in the agency IR reporting process. Chief among these is the effective splitting of the current Information Resources Strategic Plan (IRSP) into two pieces: a new Information Resources Deployment Review (IRDR) and a new IR component of the Agency Strategic Plan. The legislation requires agencies to submit their IRDRs to DIR by December 1 of odd-numbered years, beginning in 2007.
The IRDR is intended to provide a review of the operational aspects of each agency's information resources deployment, in support of the agency's mission, goals, and objectives. Another important aspect of the review is how the agency's IR deployment supports the state?s IR direction as expressed in the State Strategic Plan for Information Resources Management. Finally, the review is intended to provide confirmation by the agency of compliance with the state's IR-related statutes, rules and standards.
DIR remains committed to streamlining the content and process as much as possible to minimize the reporting burden on agencies. Therefore, much of the content of the IRDR is derived from the 2006 IRSP and utilized the same "hosted web survey" platform as the previous plan. In anticipation that many of your responses will be consistent with the 2006 IRSP, you will see your previous responses "pre-populated" in the IRDR collection tool whenever possible to facilitate your completion of this report. Additionally, for agencies with requirements for Corrective Action Plans (CAP), a CAP progress report is incorporated into the IRDR.
IRDR Process
The agency Information Resources Manager (IRM) is responsible for coordinating the review process and reporting the results to DIR. IRDR instructions for agencies to perform their deployment review can also be used as a word processing template for initial data gathering, if desired. DIR released a web-based IRDR Collection Tool on October 19, 2007. Because the statutorily-required submission deadline of December 1 falls on a Saturday, DIR will accept submissions through Monday, December 3, 2007.
Compliance Review Process and Corrective Action Plans
H.B.1788 requires DIR to review the IRDR responses of each agency to determine compliance with state technology standards, provisions in the State Strategic Plan, or existing corrective action plans. DIR will perform this review in early 2008 and notify those agencies found to lack compliance in one or more areas of the need to submit a corrective action plan (CAP). For those agencies with a current CAP in effect, the IRDR will satisfy the requirement for the first six month progress report.
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