What will get your CEO fired? (part 2)

In Monday’s article, we suggested that the three technical factors that could get the big boss fired are probably only limited to:

  1. Repeated and/or catastrophic failure (of network, systems, etc)
  2. Inability to serve the market (eg offerings, capacity, etc)
  3. Inability to operate network assets profitably

In that article, we looked closely at a human factor and how current trends of open-source, Agile and microservices might actually exacerbate it.

But let’s look at some of the broader examples under point 1 today. The failure factors we could consider that might result in the big boss getting fired are:

  1. Availability (nodal and E2E)

  2. Performance (nodal and E2E)

  3. Security (security trust model – cloud vs corporate vs active network and related zones)

  4. Remediation times, systems & processes (Assurance), particularly effectiveness of process for handling P1 (Priority 1) incidents

  5. Resilience Architecture

  6. Disaster Recovery Plan (incl Backup and Restore process, what black-swan events the organisation is susceptible to, etc)

  7. Supportability and Maintenance Routines

  8. Change and Release Management approaches

  9. Human resources (incl business continuity risk of losing IP, etc)

  10. Where are the SPoFs (Single Points of Failure)

We should note too that these should be viewed through two lenses:

  • The lens of the network our OSS/BSS is managing and
  • The lens of the systems (hardware/software/cloud) that make up our OSS/BSS

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