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Project Team Leaders: 3/19, 10:30@N42-286
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Fri Mar 12 11:17:38 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 11:15:45 -0500
To: magellan@mit.edu, delivery.integration-ptl@mit.edu
From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
Good morning,
We'd like to remind everyone of the project leaders meeting next
Friday, March 19, 10:30 - 12:00 in N42-286. At this meeting we would
like to engage your input for assignments the Directors have regarding
the IS 5YP.
The initial phase of the five year plan was completed in December. In
January and February, ITLT continued discussions to refine and add
additional context and depth to the plan. The plan today is available
via:
http://web.mit.edu/sextant/www/index.html
Please note the ITLT Feb. 11, 1999 section at the beginning and the
<bold>affinities worksheet dated Feb. 10, 1999.</bold> Each ITLT
member was assigned a specific strategy affinity, and we were provided
additional templates to further define that strategy work and the
associated initiatives for each strategy. The particular assignments
for Susan, Bob, and myself are given below. ITLT is expected to
complete a draft for each strategy and initiative by April 1, 1999.
This coming Friday, we would like to work through a few of these
strategies with you in order to gain your input into this next phase of
the plan.
For Friday, please take a few moments to review the strategies and the
associated initiatives available via sextant.
Thank you in advance for your participation and input. This effort
constitutes the next critical milestone for the IS 5YP effort.
Susan, Greg, and Bob.
<bold>Susan's Strategies are in the Technology Column</bold>
Develop MIT's IT architecture - the integration standards, guidelines,
and principles.
Explore and track technology that has potential for MIT's needs,
expressed and latent, and share possibilities with our IT peers and
business partners
Participate in standards setting activities to promote standards that
recognize the needs of MIT and other educational institutions.
<bold>Bob's Strategies are in the Technology and Internal Process
Columns:</bold>
Work with key hardware and software vendors to influence the products
and services they develop.
Provide packages of services, anticipating the needs of common customer
cases. (N.B. this is shared with Bill Hogue)
<bold>Greg's strategies are in the Technology and Internal Process
columns:
</bold>Work with faculty and staff to plan, develop, deploy and use the
next generation of educational technology. (N.B. this will be worked
collaboratively with Vijay)
Define and redesign (including quality expectations and metrics to be
tracked) small-p processes to improve operational efficiencies.
Transfer piloted redesigns into operation.
<bold>STRATEGY TEMPLATES:
</bold>These are the elements we need to supply for each strategy:
Strategy name: from the affinities matrix
Rationale: why is this important? why now?
Initiatives: list the linitiatives that are associated with this
Strategy.
<bold>Strategic Initiative Template:
</bold>for each initiative identified with the Strategy:
Actions Needed / Deliverables
Draw material from the "Target" information for each initiative
in the plan.
Success Criteria
Focus on objective criteria
May include criteria such as size of project, duration, dependencies
Resource Requirements
List of essential staff
Commentary <bold>
</bold>Any other discussion that may be relevant to the initiative.
<bold> </bold>
