CNMCyber Team

CNM Digital Services (previously known as CNM Tech Skills Training Team, CNM Tech Team, CNM Computer Services; hereinafter, the Team) is the team of Career Network Ministry (CNM) that provides CNM with a bundle of online and onsite services collectively called CNM Digital.

Organizational culture

DevOps

In order to provide CNM with CNM Digital, the Team:

1. Decides on:
   • Portfolio of services to be designed, developed, and maintained. This portfolio is called CNM Digital;
   • Bundle of software that support CNM Digital. This bundle is called CNM Cloud; as well as
   • Collection of endeavors that shall be undertaken in order to design, develop, and maintain CNM Digital within the fundraised budget. This collection is collectively called the CNM Digital Transformation and particularly includes CNM Cloud Project.
   The body that is responsible for the decisions is called the CNM Technology Board;
2. Clarifies requirements for CNM Digital, CNM Cloud, and CNM Digital Transformation. The body that is responsible for clarifications and other ad hoc activities is called the CNM IT Taskforce;
3. Manages projects and operations that CNM Technology Board has approved, while:
   • Implementing the requirements for CNM Digital, CNM Cloud, and CNM Digital Transformation; and
   • Commonly, hiring third-party vendors.
   The body that is responsible for the management of development operations is called CNM IT Office.

The Team may also exercise other operations depending on its members' career needs.

Brief history

The CNM Tech Skills Training Team was initially created in February of 2012 in order to provide patrons of the Career Network Ministry with free technology training. Both the name and inspiration came from Dr. Mallard Owen, then, a member of the CNM leadership circle.

The most of training sessions concentrated on office suites, web development, and project management. During the hands-on training, the participants utilized partners' software.

In summer of 2013, the Team received hundreds of yearly subscriptions for Microsoft enterprise-level products, particularly SharePoint Online. In order to run its own platform for the trainees, the Team started acting as a technology startup and, thus, became the CNM Tech Team.

There were several attempts to land new partners when the subscriptions ended in 2014. These attempts were successful in the short-run, but sooner or later the partners pursued other opportunities and abandoned the engagement. In 2016, the Team lost almost all of its digital assets as a result of the server collapse. Next year, the Team destroyed its own slowly-developed private cloud to reduce the expenses.

In winter of 2018, a new concept of providing CNM patrons with computer services was developed, so the Team became the CNM Computer Services. When those services were officially named CNM Digital, the Team acquired its current name.

Structure

The Team consists of three units:

1. CNM Technology Board that defines the strategy of the Team through its approval or disapproval of CNM Digital, CNM Cloud, and CNM Digital Transformation;
2. CNM IT Office that runs the Team's day-by-day operations including its support for both CNM Technology Board and CNM IT Taskforce;
3. CNM IT Taskforce that unites those volunteers who are involved into generating requirements for CNM Digital, CNM Cloud, and CNM Digital Transformation.

Board

Main wikipage: CNM Technology Board

The CNM IT Office supports the Board.

Deciding on the services

The CNM Technology Board defines the portfolio of the services included into CNM Digital.

Deciding on the software

The CNM Technology Board defines the CNM Cloud, which is the bundle of software that supports CNM Digital.

Deciding on the endeavors

The CNM Technology Board approves or disapproves the strategy for the development of CNM Digital known as CNM Digital Transformation.

Taskforce

Main wikipage: CNM IT Taskforce

Clarifying the requirements

The CNM DevOps Admin leads recruitment and retention of volunteers to develop requirements for CNM Digital, CNM Cloud, and/or CNM Digital Transformation. These requirements shall be published at the wikipages related to one particular:

1. Service of CNM Digital or, more exactly, at one of the following pages: CNM Sites, CNM Labs, CNM Ventures, CNM Wikis, CNM Certs, CNM Mails, CNM Videos, CNM Talks, CNM Nets, or CNM Linkups.
2. Software of CNM Cloud or, more exactly, at one of the following pages: CNM Siteware, CNM Labware, CNM Ventureware, CNM Wikiware, CNM Certware, CNM Mailware, CNM Videoshareware, CNM Talkware, CNM Netware, CNM Linkupware, or CNM Infrastructure.

As the main result of these operations, every page shall represent a complete set of requirements for a particular service or software. After the CNM Technology Board's approval, these requirements shall be implemented by the Friends Of CNM.

Particularly, the CNM DevOps Admin organizes WorldOpp roundtables, WorldOpp hiring events, and WorldOpp seminars.

Carrying out of select operations

Although the overwhelming majority of DevOps shall be conducted by Friends Of CNM, the CNM DevOps Admin may perform the general oversight, particularly, to report to the CNM Technology Board. If some volunteer would like to take over select responsibilities, the CNM DevOps Admin can also reserve those responsibilities for that volunteer.

Office

Main wikipage: CNM IT Office

Related lectures

• Welcome to Friends Of CNM.