10 questions to be able to answer about your school network

1. What are we trying to achieve?

2. 
What are we trying to achieve: T&L?
Realisation of Whole School T&L Objectives
Trust and confidence in EdTech so staff and
students will invest their time to use for T&L
Relationship with partners to realise ROI
99.999% reliability and consistency
Predictable spending by strategic planning
Promising and delivering against T&L criteria

3. 
1. Generous Donation
A generous donation of £250,000 was
given to the school specifically for ICT
developments what would
you spend it on?
What would be the advantages
for the school Pupils,
Staff and Parents?
Answer?

4. 
Your budget was suddenly cut by
50%, what would you cut and how
could you cope, and
what would be the
effects on the School
and the end users?
Answer?
2. Budget Cut 50%

5. 
What would be the effect of our main
Internet connection being severed by a
JCB?
What services would we lose?
Have we any on site
backup systems
in place?
Answer?
2. Internet Severed by JCB

6. 
What might happen if a major incident
occurs while you (or any one specific
member of your staff)
are away on holiday
abroad for 2 weeks?
Answer?
3. Major Incident

7. 
Can you show me your records of the
systems' reliability over the past 12
months?
Is the reliability acceptable? If not, how
could we improve it and how could we
implement the change?
Answer?
4. System Reliability

8. 
How many individuals
are sufficiently privileged
administrators
that they can see
the Head's documents,
emails, etc.?
Answer?
5. The Head's Emails

9. 
If a pupil got hold of a staff password,
and started using it, how would we ever
know, and how
long might it take
to find out?
Answer?
6. Staff Password

10. 
Can you retrieve a file which was last
seen one month ago, and
how long would it take
to retrieve it?
Could you retrieve a file
from six month ago?
Answer?
7. Retrieving files

11. 
Do you have a
Skills Matrix?
Is there adequate
documentation to
minimise
a problem?
8. Skills Matrix

12. 
Succession Planning. For each member of
your staff – what would the effect be on
running the system if they left?
What tasks would it be difficult to
perform, and how long might it take to
recover from the loss?
Answer?
9. Succession Planning

13. 
Do you have a strategic development plan
to make your spending predictable and set
expectation for everyone for hardware and
infrastructure?
What’s your
cloud plan?
Answer?
10. Strategic Development Plan

14. 
Thanks
Ian Phillips
@Ianhabs
https://www.facebook.com/InspirEdHabs
Reading Tony Wagner’s Most Likely to Succeed
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