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UCI-OIT PMC Planning Meeting 08-11-2014

UCI-OIT PMC Planning Meeting 08-11-2014

Attending: Jeff Martin, Eric Taggart

Absent:

Agenda/Notes:

  • Review ET's cleaned-up PMC goals/objectives
    • Jeff
      • PMO organization - 3 models (PMBOK), let's follow the lightweight route for now
      • Jeff will email names of models
    • ET didn't up yet, but will and then email Jeff for review
  • Propose a Project Plan or Roadmap for this group over the next year to meet objectives
    • Workstreams
      • PM Workflow in ServiceNow
        • Fit-gap between OIT project approval process and actual project practices (from the survey)
      • Collect/refine/communicate tools/resources
      • PM consultation for projects in need
    • Activities
      • Monthly meeting
      • Need to draft initial activities for each workstream
    • Template (Wiki, word doc, MS Project)
      • Wiki, not sure if there's a good wiki template/model to follow
        • Look around for one
        • ET will ask EricP for any suggestions
  • Consider asking PMC members to all take the UCLC ITIL foundation courses to help establish common understanding/language for ITSM concepts/practices
    • Jeff: Yes, let's suggest it.  Organize as one of the acitivities in the PM Framework workstream
    • How can we better use PMBOK and ITSM/ITIL terminology?
  • What to call the desired project approval process/framework?
    • What's the PMBOK/ITSM corollary?
      • Not sure - Jeff will investigate language to use
        • Align with PM Life Cycle phases
          • Initiation: what do we need and why do we need to do it: Review, Approve to go on
          • Planning: Plan and propose an implementation: Review, approve to go on
          • Execution: Execute the implementation plan, but stop before final go live for review and go-live approval
            • ensure docs, process, tasks issues closed
          • Iterate as needed in phases for more complex projeccts
        • OIT Project Life Cycle Approvals
    • Project Review/Approval
      • Initiation, Implementation, Go Live
  • Eric P investigate other UC campus willing to do SN ReadyTalk
    • ET will check-in
    • What do we want to see?
      • Jeff
        • What's their local PM/governance like (outside of SN and/or within SN)?
          • How are projects submitted, reviewed, approved, etc. - what's their human workflow like w/ SN and how are they interacting with it
          • How would they rate their own PMO maturity level
        • How have they organized SN (just the key skeleton, not all the details)
        • What's the scope of how they're using it (modules, features, campus units, etc.)
  • 08-22-2014 PMC Meeting Agenda
    • Review PMC 2014-2015 Project Plan
    • Review results of Eric P's PM survey for best practices and tools we might recommend
    • SN update
      • UCI progress
      • Investigation of other campuses
    • reviiew