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Grants Management Solution  (Kuali)

This project will implement Kuali’s pre-and post-award solution that will provide enterprise-level grants management to support multiple campuses.  Efforts are currently focused on the financial setup and integration, data migration, validation testing, and resulting configuration changes.

Functional efforts are currently focused on documentation, system testing, and data migration. The financial integration is in development, and the second pass of data migration has been delayed. Staffing challenges, the need for additional functional support for unifying and documenting business process and testing, and the need for additional time to massage the historical data for the second pass of data migration are contributing factors in a recent decision to postpone go-live. The project team is currently assessing an updated timeline, in conjunction with its UMS partners and Kuali.

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Managed Print Services (Xerox)

Through an RFP process, Xerox was chosen as the Print Services provider for UMS. This project will include several efforts including assessment of the current printer/copier fleet, developing a governance model, standardizing and streamlining the business financial model to better automate billing to provide unified cost allocation, and deployment of new devices.

A proposal was created for a funding model for devices and consumption costs.  This model will be presented to the CBO’s for their feedback and approval.  A survey is being developed to help the team understand what features of a Managed Print Service are most important to our customers.

Xerox Assessments & Device Ordering
Xerox has completed site visits at six locations.  Site visits at remaining major campuses are scheduled through the end of October.  An initial order of devices is nearly finalized.

Infrastructure
The new instance of Papercut has been installed. A test device has been installed and tested to ensure that it reads ID badges and associates them to the correct user.

Service Delivery Design
The first meeting of the Service Delivery Design team is scheduled for next week.

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Peoplesoft Gender & Pronoun Implementation

Students, faculty, and staff will be able to access and feel confident that the representation expressed in UMS systems or activities of record (Systems: HR, Academic, and other fed by MaineStreet, Activities: Marketing, Citing, etc.) accurately reflects gender and can be edited via self-service. This will be supported by training in appropriate interaction and responsible use of pronoun information.

The project team is focused on discovery, research, and communications planning. During the next subteam meetings, team members will narrow down the charge/ objectives for each group and select team leads. Following those meetings, the team will set target milestone dates.

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Team Dynamix – Asset Management

The purpose of this project is to implement a new Asset Management system to include a new tool as well as business process improvements. Little progress has been made on adding classes of assets over the past month. Conversations are ongoing with classroom technology about how to best represent their assets.

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Team Dynamix – IT Service Management

This project will complete our implementation of TeamDynamix as our primary tool for IT Service Management and will encompass the areas of Incident, Request, Problem, and Change Management.

Based on feedback from IT Staff after the discovery sessions, the core implementation team and our TeamDynamix consultants have drafted an “agile” implementation plan. A communication will be sent to all IT Staff next week with details of the plan. Kick-off of the first phase is planned for 10/12/2022.

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Team Dynamix – Knowledge Management Implementation

A plan for tracking metrics related to knowledge management was completed.  This was the final deliverable for the project. Project close-out activities will be completed over the next few weeks.

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Team Dynamix – Project & Portfolio Management Implementation

The PMO is actively using TeamDynamix as our primary project management and reporting tool.
A new desktop was created to share with IT Leadership taht highlights projects, issues, and risks that are of concern.

Project Intake Process

A ticketing app is under development in Sandbox that represents the project intake and review process.  Testing is scheduled for the week of 10/10

Project Management for IT teams beyond PMO

A pilot to onboard another IT department is scheduled to kick off on 10/12.  We will use this pilot to identifies issues and concerns and develop an onboarding guide.

Project Management for Departments beyond IT

Several departments outside IT have expressed interest in using TeamDynamix for Project Management.  The pilot noted above will help us develop a plan for onboarding and supporting use of this tool by other departments.

 

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UMaine/UMM MaineStreet Integration

UMaine and UMaine Machias are involved in operationalizing the regional campus concept by incorporating UMM as a regional campus of UMaine. This project will incorporate UMaine and UMaine Machias into a single institution in MaineStreet (UMaine – UMS05) by integrating UMM (UMS04) course, program, student, and employee data under UMaine.

The CSTS3 test environment was refreshed after the new Oracle PUM was applied in the production Campus Solutions environment on 9/23. Testing in the refreshed CSTS3 environment is currently underway. The functional area teams are conducting cross-functional testing, and setup for testing the Financial Aid Year Roll is being applied.

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USM Website

An extension to the launch date was discussed and ultimately granted to allow additional time for content entry. The new launch date is 11.28.22, and USM users are currently working on content entry through the end of the week. Technical development of the site is complete, and a plan for the remaining project tasks and activities is in place.

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