Met Office Business Analysis and Architecture as a Managed Service
In a bold programme backed by the UK Government, the Met Office is overhauling its weather and climate forecasting capabilities.- Their goal is to generate additional socioeconomic value by creating more accurate and timely warnings for severe weather, better climate modelling, and improved resilience to climate change impacts.
- The Met Office’s plans are ambitious. This has never been done before. It will require significant IT expertise and leadership.
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We delivered a service of over 20 Business Analysis (BA) and Architecture specialists to work across various major Met Office IT programmes. - 2Our Business Analysis (BA) and Architecture unit worked with the Met Office’s product managers, delivery partners and other project team members to oversee some of their major IT programs, from data management and processing to client-consumed products and services.
- 3We imparted our delivery expertise to drive an outcome-focused approach to the major projects and programmes we work on.
- Introduced agile thinking and agile delivery - This helped us rapidly deliver results by prioritising and de-risking. This means that we can ensure programmes and projects are continually focused on delivering outcomes with defined benefits and value to end users.
- Drove continuous improvement through thought leadership - We communicated knowledge, developed capability, and encouraged new ways of working across programmes and professions to leave the Met Office in a better place.
- Matured the enterprise design function – We acted as critical friends and developed enterprise and project artefacts to help create a positive and lasting impact on the maturity of the enterprise design function.
- Delivered automation – We have pioneered a system which automates the process for retiring and decommissioning legacy products, creating more time to drive transformation.
- Ensuring continuity across critical national infrastructure – We are helping the Met Office to maintain continuity of critical services during updates to the Supercomputer, protecting today whilst paving the way for tomorrow.
Their story
We developed a flexible process for retiring and decommissioning Products and Service Offerings. The business can manage these lifecycle steps more effectively, with over 50% of our remit now automated.
Aligned with an Agile delivery framework, our BAs worked closely with product managers, delivery partners and other project team members to modernise the Operational Meteorology product platform.
Using abstraction and decomposition techniques to evaluate and document the datasets, we are helping to ensure that supercomputer updates would not negatively impact other systems.
We are creating a roadmap to enable projects to deliver benefits that align with the Met Office strategy and the organisational target state. This addresses a gap the Met Office identified between business strategy and execution. We are addressing this by developing a series of blueprints to articulate the current and target architectures.
Our Business and Data Architects are shaping the way environmental data is managed and shared. This will support the delivery of data into products and services and help the Met Office meet its Socioeconomic goals.
Triad has effectively supported the Met Office's change and transformation projects. Their collaborative approach, combined with expert skills and dedicated professionals, has enabled us to deliver exceptional services into the Met office
