This area focuses on market trends for technologies, processes, methodologies and products for IT markets.

Perspective Capture Questions: Market IT Environment Directions/Trends Area

a) What general directions/trends is the IT environment market moving?

b) What specific directions/trends exist for the follow areas:

   i. Other Systems (existing and planned) coming in the future for the organization

   ii. Risk Tolerance levels

   iii. Enterprise Architectural Environments

   iv. Corporate IT Standards

   v. Provisioning, Patch, Deployment Systems

   vi. Instrumentation, Monitoring and troubleshooting systems

   vii. IT Security Environment

   viii. Data Center Services

   ix. Development and Test Environments

   x. Technical Pressures

   xi. Operational Metrics

   xii. Physical Facility Capabilities

   xiii. Financial Pressures

   xiv. Resource Pressures

   xv. Recoverability Systems

   xvi. Time Pressures

   xvii. Operational Processes