[166] in iswork
Getting activity information into IS Work
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Mon Nov 20 11:38:07 2000
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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:37:49 -0500
From: Tim McGovern <tjm@MIT.EDU>
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Bob,
You may recall a while ago that you, Kris and I discussed the possibility of
"jump-starting" the activities in the database from the business plans that were
just written. Kris and took a look at the standing team template the other day,
as well as one example activity (my Stopit business plan), and there's some good
news, as well as a major question. The good news is that there could be a nice
mapping of (some) fields from the template to (some fields in) the database, for example:
Template Field IS Work / Activity Field
-------------- ------------------------
Name & Cost Center Activity Name
Purpose + Work + Goals Description
Vision Justification
Customers Customers
There wouldn't be any attempt to capture Resources or Measures from the business
plans, nor would the Activity Detail capture several critical fields, namely:
Unfilled IS Work / Activity Field
---------------------------------
Practice
Priority
URL
Status
Responsible Person
Sponsor
Process
<Linkage to Initiatives>
But the major question that occurred to us as we were reviewing the
template/business plan was this:
Is it safe to assert that the Activities that are needed in the
IS Work database map one-to-one to the business plans that were
written. Since the business plans were driven more from the
financial side of our enterprise -- we wrote business plans if and
only if there was a cost object _already_in_existence_ -- do we have
the _right_ set of activities here, or do we really have something
entirely else again, for example, teams?
We believe that this is a question that requires more serious thought and a
decision from ITLT before any more effort be invested in the work to
move the Word documents into the database.
Tim
