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UCI Project Management Community (PMC)

UCI Project Management Community (PMC)

Owned by Eric Taggart
Last updated: Jun 16, 2016 by Eric Puchalski

The UCI Project Management Community (PMC) is a group of individuals seeking to foster more effective management, implementation and coordination of projects across the campus, but especially related to Information Technology.  The PMC is following a "Community of Practice" model to help organize activities, make recommendations and share expertise.

UCI Project Management Community (PMC) Members

  • Kian Colestock
  • Robert Keller
  • Kelsey Layos
  • Jeff Martin (2015-2016 Chair)
  • Eric Puchalski
  • Eric Taggart (2014-2015 Chair)
  • Briandy Walden
  • Sarkis Daglian
  • Carmen Roode
  • Shirley Sharon Stevenson
  • oit-pmc@uci.edu is an Exchange email list of current PMC members that should be updated over time to remain current.  Please feel free to send messages to the group using this distribution list as needed.

UCI Project Management Community (PMC) Charge

  • Facilitate the management of OIT projects by coordinating a Community of Practice that employs effective project management principles; provides input on tools, templates and processes; and encourages all OIT colleagues to grow their project management skills.
  • Help lay the foundation for a future OIT Project Management Office (PMO) that will focus on these centers of excellence:
    • Portfolio Management
    • Project Management
    • Quality Assurance
    • Business Analysis

  • Provide an ongoing Community of Practice for UCI (especially OIT) managers and project leads.

  • Assess current project management practices, tools, and templates and recommend a project management framework that can be used to manage any OIT project.
  • Develop. recommend, implement, and use an OIT Project Management Framework based on ServiceNow workflows and automation.

  • Collect, refine, use, and share useful templates, tools, best practices, and OIT processes with a focus on consolidating toward a few key tools.

  • Identify common complications with projects and offer options for dealing with challenges such as:
    • Managing stakeholder expectations
    • Prioritization
    • Communication
    • Resource management (especially across multiple teams)
    • Accountability
    • Impact
    • Change management

PMC Annual Goals

UCI PMC Meeting Agendas & Notes

UCI PMC Resources

UCI PMC Decision Log

OIT Project Approval Framework