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Facilities MIS Strategic Planning Report, 2/10/1999
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Wed Feb 10 15:10:34 1999
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:11:28 -0500
To: magellan@MIT.EDU
From: Tim McGovern <tjm@MIT.EDU>
Project Name: Facilities-MIS Strategic Planning
Project Leaders: Anne Whealan, Tim McGovern
Report Date: Feb. 10, 1999
Project Notebook: http://web.mit.edu/is/discovery/plant-sp/ .\/
Accomplishments past period
- Incorporated feedback from core team into final report
- Incorporated best practices data from Ivy Plus schools, other MIT
departments
- Incorporated customer feedback into final report
- Sent final report to editor for final repairs
- Updated Project Notebook & Project Database
- Planned presentation path for bringing closure to Discovery project
- Planned the next document markup session, 2/12/1999...Happy Birthday, Abe!
Goals for the coming period
- Make final repairs to document
-- text and format is subbed out to a writer in Facilities
-- project implementation schedule remains with me
- Meet with project sponsor to report out final report
- Plan for meetings with Jim Bruce, CIO; Facilities Leadership Teams
Issues
- The biggest issue relates to one recommendation that came very late in the
deliberations of the core team. The budget for FY2001 went in without a
provision for replacing ~75 machines, to allow the department to standardize
on a single desktop platform. The impact is still unclear. It may cause
a delay in implementation of that one recommendation, or a decision to
nix
the recommendation altogether.
Key learnings
- Nothing new.
Team dynamics
- Nothing new.
Additional comments
- My co-project manager said something to me recently...and it struck me as
an interesting intro to a post-mortem on this, and many other, projects:
"My one disappointment in this project was that we never ..."
I think it would be interesting to have each team member, sponsor, etc.
write down their "one disappointment" and share them with each other, and
then to use that shared perspective to drive a post-mortem analysis. Has
any one else used this approach?
