A nice inforgraphic on the 5 basic Do's and Don'ts in the IT Capacity Planning Niche.

1. 5 Do’s of IT Capacity
Planning
When its comes to IT Capacity Planning, an
organization can easily get overwhelmed by
the number of metrics. Below are some of
the Do’s that must be followed to build and
effective IT Capacity Plan.
Research
Forecast
IT Capacity Planning, is a two sided sword
and if not done properly can significantly
harm the company. An Organization can
over-buy or under provision IT resourcesboth of them ultimately resulting in loss.
Below are some Don’t of IT Capacity
Planning.
Plan
Clear Visibility
across all
platforms
Organizations now source
multiple application and
services using various
platforms. The IT Capacity
Planning must incorporate all
components, products and
services from each platform.
Get more
insight than
just metrics
Don’t forget to hold the Shift key when
selecting multiple pieces of one icon. Once
you’ve selected each element of the
icon, you should “group” it so that you can
more easily move and scale the object.
Schedule ongoing reporting
with IT Capacity
Team
5 Don’ts of IT
Capacity Planning
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Using different
tools for Capacity
Planning
Organizations, at any cost, must
avoid planning for capacity using
metrics and data fetched from
different tools and applications. It
restricts IT Managers in
evaluating data quickly and
efficiently.
Static IT
Capacity
Planning Data
that includes
un-charted
data.
Reluctance in
using IT capacity
data as input to
IT department.
The icons seen here are not limited to any
particular color scheme, size, or shape.
Experiment with your own company colors
and style to find what works for you.
Group and
organize IT
Infrastructure
with business
applications and
processes.
Keep IT Capacity
data hidden and
shared to only
some people in
IT Department.
Comparing and
relating IT
capacity related
outages with
SLA.
Plan for IT
Capacity using
guess work and
casual
evaluations.
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Victoria 3181
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