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Operational vs project time
From: Gary Flynn <flynngn () JMU EDU>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:36:46 -0500
Hi, We're undergoing some internal analysis and were wondering what security groups were seeing as the proportion of time spent on operational work vs project work. By operational work, I mean recurring things like responding to calls, access requests, infections, incidents, training and presentations, daily monitoring and response tasks, tuning, upgrades, and the like. By project work, I mean things like providing new internal or external services and development. Projects may be internal projects to improve security functions ( e.g. network anomaly detection ), external projects providing security services to external parties ( e.g. WSUS server ), or interdepartmental projects where security personnel participate in the project planning, design, management, and possibly implementation on an ongoing basis ( e.g. portal, identity management, new university system rollouts ). We're currently estimating 60-70% of our time going to operational tasks and wondered what others were seeing. -- Gary Flynn Security Engineer James Madison University www.jmu.edu/computing/security
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- Operational vs project time Gary Flynn (Oct 30)
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- Re: Operational vs project time Crawford, Tim M. (Oct 30)
- Re: Operational vs project time Philip Webster (Oct 30)
- Re: Operational vs project time James Moore (Oct 30)
- Re: Operational vs project time Steve Schuster (Nov 01)