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IRM Foundations

Jumpstart your Integrated Risk Management (IRM) journey with IRM Foundations! Designed for clients who want to fully roll their IRM program into ServiceNow, this two-release offering aims to stand-up three core GRC components - Policy & Compliance, Risk Management, and Audit Management - in our most accelerated timeline yet. Take advantage of our learned efficiency, best-practice guidance, and technical expertise to give your Risk and Compliance program the foundation it needs for continued success.

Release 1 - Risk & Policy

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Initiate & Plan

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Execute

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Deliver

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Go-Live & Beyond

Initiate & Plan

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Conduct workshops for Risk & Policy, demo functionality, approve execution plan

8 HRS Product Owner
12 HRS Scrum Master
40 HRS Development Team
6 HRS Customer Stakeholders
6 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Execute

5 WEEKS
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Configure Risk & Policy functionality per best practice and customer requirements; continually show progress back to the customer and collect new requirements.

4 HRS Product Owner
8 HRS Scrum Master
56 HRS Development Team
3 HRS Customer Stakeholders
2 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Deliver

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Provide functional and technical knowledge transfer and support customer acceptance testers

12 HRS Product Owner
15 HRS Scrum Master
60 HRS Development Team
8 HRS Customer Stakeholders
16 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Go-Live & Beyond

2 WEEKS
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Promote code to production and provide support.

4 HRS Product Owner
8 HRS Scrum Master
24 HRS Development Team
3 HRS Customer Stakeholders
2 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Release 2- Compliance & Audit

3 WEEKS
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Initiate & Plan

5 WEEKS
arrow

Execute

2 WEEKS
arrow

Deliver

2 WEEKS
arrow

Go-Live & Beyond

Initiate & Plan

3 WEEKS
arrow

Conduct workshops for Compliance & Audit, demo functionality, approve execution plan

8 HRS Product Owner
12 HRS Scrum Master
40 HRS Development Team
6 HRS Customer Stakeholders
6 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Execute

5 WEEKS
arrow

Configure Compliance & Audit functionality per best practice and customer requirements; continually show progress back to the customer and collect new requirements.

4 HRS Product Owner
8 HRS Scrum Master
56 HRS Development Team
3 HRS Customer Stakeholders
2 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Deliver

2 WEEKS
arrow

Provide functional and technical knowledge transfer and support customer acceptance testers

12 HRS Product Owner
15 HRS Scrum Master
60 HRS Development Team
8 HRS Customer Stakeholders
16 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Go-Live & Beyond

2 WEEKS
arrow

Promote code to production and provide support.

4 HRS Product Owner
8 HRS Scrum Master
24 HRS Development Team
3 HRS Customer Stakeholders
2 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Thirdera Staffing

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Engagement Manager

Responsible for providing leadership and direction to achieve growth and transformation.

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Business Process Analyst

Analyses business requirements and provides system design while implementing system solutions.

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Technical Team

Comprised of a Technical Lead and Solution Architect, Thirdera's technical resources utilise advanced platform knowledge and best practices to ensure smooth technical operations and client satisfaction.

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Project Scope

Thirdera's IRM Foundations Blueprint includes a robust list of deliverables to set your IRM program on course for long-term success. Guided by proven best practices, our team of advisory and technical experts configures and implements a solution best fit for your unique needs while establishing a foundation of knowledge to promote ongoing maturation. Key deliverables include:

Key deliverables include:

  • Load core data including Risk and Compliance frameworks, policies, risk statements, control objectives, and audit engagements
  • Define initial register of assets, services, and/or functions for which controls and risks can be mapped to (known in ServiceNow as entities).
  • Configure policy lifecycle, including ownership, policy acknowledgement campaigns, and policy exception workflow and notifications
  • Establish control lifecycle, including ownership, mechanisms for determining compliance status, and issue process for handling non-compliance
  • Setup risk lifecycle, including initial risk assessment methodology, risk scoring, and risk response workflows
  • Establish audit engagement lifecycle, including audit tasks, initial control test templates, audit templates, and issue process for handling audit findings
  • Configure notifications, reports, and dashboards from templates
  • Setup of the three relevant Workspace UIs (Compliance, Risk, Audit) to provide concise user experiences
  • Provide Functional Overview, Technical Knowledge Transfer, and UAT Support for each release

Outcomes

Clear Ownership

Defined ownership across the IRM portfolio, including Policies, Risks, Controls, Issues, and Audit Engagements
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Complete Visibility

Visibility into Compliance and Risk posture across the organisation, including the ability to understand posture of external regulations, internal policies, risk frameworks, or individual assets.
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Consolidated View

Single register of GRC Issues to get a wholistic picture into status and prioritisation of the things that need remediation across all IRM activities
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Process Automation

Initial automation around Risk and Compliance processes, including recurring assessments, automated issue generation for non-compliance, auto-generated notifications/reminders, and more, with a foundation for additional automation opportunities
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Dedicated Workspaces

Dedicated persona-based workspaces to centralise tasks and efforts of risk and compliance managers
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Data-Driven Analytics

Interactive dashboards and reporting to ensure visibility and simplify Risk and Compliance program management

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