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Project Management Direction

As iCIT continues to improve the way we do business, project management is playing a key role. Greater customer satisfaction, better resource allocations, and effective solutions are all benefits of improved project managment. With this in mind, iCIT is taking a strategic approach to project management.

Kent Steinike, iCIT’s Project Management Officer, is helping iCIT develop a successful project management culture and working with iCIT team members to implement effective project management practices. Part of this initiative includes implementing a comprehensive web-based project management software system which provides complete management, tracking and collaboration platforms.

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State of Web Development

Since February 2005, all new UWW web applications have been developed using ASP.NET. Beginning in April of this year, these applications were upgraded to use the new .NET 2.0 framework. This represents a significant change of strategic direction for web development at UWW. In the past web applications were created independently and in a variety of programming languages (ColdFusion, PHP, ASP.NET, etc.). Barry Henrichs is leading an initiative to standardize web applications across campus, providing greater stability and security. As the project moves forward, many applications that were previously using ColdFusion will either be deleted, replaced by Collage functionality, or redeveloped in .NET 2.0. This strategic move also prepares the way for creating a campus web portal. More information will be available as the project proceeds.

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Storage Management Direction

The Storage Management Project has completd the needs analysis, market research and cost analysis. The team has also established a strategic direction for our storage solution, and is now at the vendor negotiation stage. They expect to select a vendor by mid October and to deploy by the end of the calendar year.

The storage strategy seeks to accomplish a number of things:

1. Consolidate storage administration for all Enterprise storage to simplify and remove inconsistencies.
2. Use the same storage systems where possible and cost effective. This increases speed of implementation and lower the inital cost.
3. Have the fewest storage systems possible, reducing costs while simplifying management, upgrades and replacement cycles.
4. Avoid pre-purchasing storage space whenever possible. Purchasing space as needed provides the lowest hardware cost.

More information will be available as the storage management project progresses.

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New Sites Added to Collage

Several campus websites have recently been added to the Collage content management system, and several more are slated for development in the coming months. The iCIT web team has worked hard to provide exceptional customer service and deliver an excellent final product to our web customers.

The College of Letters and Sciences, College of Business and Economics, Career Services and Athletics sites were deployed in the past couple of months (see below). Development of the College of Education site is continuing this fall, and the College of Arts and Communications site will begin in the near future. This will complete the move of all four college sites to Collage.

Work is continuing on the Academic Affairs site, as well. Meanwhile the initial stages of development have begun for the Music, Chancellor’s Office, and Pre-College Programs sites.

Recent Sites Added To Collage:
cls_site.jpg College of Letters and Sciences
cobe_site.jpg College of Business and Economics
cs_site.jpg Career Services
ath_site.jpg Athletics
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PeopleSoft 8.9 Upgrade Wrapping Up

PeopleSoft 8.9 went live on Monday, August 7th. There were some initial challenges with getting TouchNet up and running; specifically with the processing of student payments. These issues were resolved and TouchNet is now fully functional. As other smaller issues have been identified, AIS and NOC staff have been working to resolve them. Meanwhile, programmers are working diligently on completing the modifications that were not initially implemented. These modifications are expected to be ready for the commencement of the Fall ’06 semester.