Target Architecture - Roadmap Workshop
Levels of Target Architecture/Roadmap
Operational
50/50 graphics and text
60% technical - 40% VCR business impact
build trust that the plan is thought through
Content Principles
80% VCR business impact - 20% technology
minimal text
about 12 graphic elements
Gain support/funding
Audience
Value/Cost/Risk
5th grade simple
SLT
Develop Target Architecture
Components of Architecture to Show
Risks
Information Gaps
Assumptions
AURORA database
OCSPP Modernization (not OPP and OPPT)
Review Target Architecture
Scalability, Accuracy, Visibility, Efficiency (SAVE)
Outline As-Is
Build Roadmap
Beginning and End
Shut down legacy infrastructure
Done with Documentum
After June 2026
Subtopic
medium term strategy
shallow and wide
All in Salesforce, SharePoint, Excel
VP: Cost of migrating to cloud are reduced when leveraging OPP environment
data migration
Lots of leveraging what OPP migration has created
similar to OPP, just need to get at it...
Value Proposition: migrating business operations to modern cloud
30 months - $13M
then 70% of OPP functionality is on the cloud - need to also migrate rest of PRISM
updates to mypest - Depends on funding
build Incident management system - June 2026 - 50%
build LUIS functionality - June 2026 - 50%
update PRISM workflow - June 2026
VP: Access to data across the enterprise - Data Lake
VP: New environment to support business
smart search for documents - June 2026 - 50%
smart search for data - June 2026 - 50%
replaces powerbuilder app
intelligent document processing - June 2026 - 20% - AI policy dependent
reduce costs by $2M, speeds up processes from 21 days to 1 day
data gateway - June 2026
document gateway - June 2026
create an ingest module - June 2026
Standing up AWS - Jun 2026
document migration
Review Roadmap
Current Reality for EPA OCSPP
Challenges
Funding
Spending partially frozen
Multiple players with agendas and internal champions
GTSC-DW
CGI
ECG
GDIT
Unclear business direction
Opportunities
OPS was created during last Trump administration
Administration focus on automation and staff reduction
Weaknesses
Federated IT and federated business operations
Fragile legacy systems and platforms
OPP and OPPT still divergent
Business owns $$ (Authority) - OPS owns execution (Reponsibility)
Lack of skilled staff
Lack of IT leadership/governance
Strengths
EPA and EU are the only Chem/Pesticide safety players in the world
Most business functions supported by Industry
Partially funded by fees
Identify Key Stakeholders and their “Wins”
DataWiz
EPA Project Team
Stay funded
AWS
Blayze
Expand AWS footprint
Salesforce
Kerry/William
Successful customer
EPA
OMS
Rebecca
Stay in OMS Lanes
OPPT
Jeff/Blake
Alissa
Total business orientation
OPP
Dan
Only knows the tip of the IT iceberg
Wants to help the business
Tactical
OCSPP
Ed
Business Oriented
Strategic
OPS
Teddy
Strategic/Tactical
Bob
Tactical/Operational
Haley
Business oriented, not IT
strategic
Hamaad
Wants to implement Governance and AI
Re-do the 2020 picture - Lighthouse
Mid-strategic
Politicals
Highest level strategic
Risk?
Cost?
Value?
Sample Reference Documents
Roadmap Guides and Samples
OCSPP Program Architecture...
OCSPP Enterprise IT Roadmap Overview
Executive Level Story
EPA Information Technology Roadmap Story...
OPP Roadmap
DT Roadmap ...
2019/2020 Roadmap
Digital Transformation....
2019 Digital Tranformation OPPC
OPPT CRA
DW-OPPT CBI...
Objective
Problem: The customer feels that they have been asking for this (that they call Roadmap Target Architecture, etc.) over the past year, and DW has yet to deliver it.
Develop a high-level, visually engaging to-be technical architecture for OCSPP modernization, along with a roadmap that clearly communicates how to transition from the as-is to the to-be state. The goal is to secure funding for our projects by developing a to-be architecture and roadmap that clearly demonstrates high value, lower risks, and good ROI when viewed by EPA Political appointees.
Roadmap from As-Is to To-Be
Highlights key cost reductions along the way
Highlights key business outcomes along the way
Includes a timeline
Target Information Systems Architecture
Show new business capabilities
Show impacts on business
Approach for Today
Facilitator's Role
High level documentation
All voices heard
Stay on track
Decision Making
Session recorded for better documentation
Action Items captured
Progress over Perfection
Time Management
Parking lot for off-topic issues
There are scheduled breaks
We will do our best to track to agenda
Communication
Use Teams chat for side notes
Let's have inclusive participation
Use "raised Hand " feature
Keep comments concise and on topic
Participation
Ask questions - Be Curious
Use the mute button wisely
Please participate
Please keep camera on
Two day session collapsed into 5 hours
Leveraging Teams/Sharepoint/Mindmapping/Whiteboard/Powerpoint
Conversations might have to be cut short
Eliminated breakout sessions
Reduced session time
