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and undertaken by IT and software engineering professionals following current IT
development and deployment practices;
Adherence to international standards, including adoption of current international
software engineering, process, documentation, hardware, and software standards
throughout the tsunami system;
Assessment processes that lead to continuous improvement, including
o Yearly systemwide performance monitoring, management, testing and bench-
marking; yearly assessment, evaluation, accountability audits, and reporting of the
TWC technology infrastructure's support for the long-term reliability and sustain-
ability of TWC operations;
o Common, systemwide performance metrics and benchmarks; and
o Incentives to ensure compliance with standards and high levels of performance;
Mechanisms to communicate best practices , lessons learned and to enhance organiza-
tional learning; and
Adequate, substantial, multi-year, dedicated funding for all elements of the technology
plan.
Multi-year funding to support the technology planning, development, deployment, main-
tenance, support, and security operations will need to be appropriately budgeted over the
technology life cycle. As part of this planning and modernization process the committee
identiies an additional urgent need:
Attention should be paid to the use of traditional, nontraditional, and next generation
technology in support of community outreach and dissemination. IT for community
outreach and dissemination efforts should be included as part of the long-range
technology planning process and should be incorporated as an ongoing component
of TWC planning processes.
Recommendation: NOAA/NWS and the TWCs should adopt national, and where
applicable, international, standards, best practices, and lessons learned for all functions,
technology, processes, and products. Speciically, the TWCs should develop platform-
independent hardware and software architectures, applications, and interfaces; and
employ international hardware and software planning, development, operations, and
maintenance product and process standards, including the Software Engineering
Institute's Capability Maturity Model and the software development life cycle (Carnegie
Mellon Software Engineering Institute, 2010).
Recommendation: The TWCs should also regularly and systematically apply continuing
process and product improvement models for hardware and software planning,
development, operations, and maintenance; organizational processes; and should develop
a learning organizational culture.
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