Who are we?
As an outcome from IS&T Leadership Group discussions, a work group has been formed to define for IS&T what a "pilot" (beside the person or computer flying the plane) is and when we should use pilots. The members of the working group are:
- Laxmi Rao - Academic Computing
- Kyle Pope - Client Support Services
- Jonathan Hunt - Client Support Services
- Darlene Fladager - Relationship Managers
Goal
Our goal is to put together a definition of a "pilot", collect some best practices around when
to use and what makes a "pilot" successful and test our definition and best practices on a couple
of current pilots.
We will also pull together a simple framework and guidelines for pilot inititaion, control
and closeout We plan work closely with the Project Management Team to leverage existing
materials.
Potential candidates:
- Altiris for Remote Disk Management
- IPTV
- Operating System Bundled Disk Encryption (FileVault, BitLocker, EFS)
Definition: PILOT
A Pilot
- Is a Project (complete with scope, deliverables, sponsor, project leader, etc.)
- Has Resources (people time, budget, equipment)
- Answers some Question(s) (e.g., if we build it, will they come(customer demand)? will this
technology work?) - Has a planned closeout (i.e. go, no-go decision point; if it can't be killed/stopped it isn't a pilot)
- Has an exit strategy for go and no-go outcomes.
- Experimental pilots have a discovery focus and
- Evolutionary pilots have a delivery focus and need to build in a plan for potential support and sustainability.
Current List of Pilots
Starting List:
- VoIP
- IPTV
- Altiris for Desktop Management
- Stellar Images
- Flexibile cluster work spaces
- Hyperion
- Disk Encryption
To get started, we have divied up IS&T and will be collecting lists of all the current pilot projects.
- SAIS - Darlene
- ISDA - Jon
- CSS - Jon
- OIS - Kyle
- AC - Laxmi
- TSS - Kyle
- VP Office - Laxmi
List of Pilots CSS (Pilot name & Project lead)
- ALTIRIS in PMM toolkit PM Chuck King Sponsor: Pope Sponsor
- Operating System Bundled Disk Encryption (FileVault, BitLocker, EFS) - Jonathan Hunt
- Student Software Nominal Fee Pilot (Mathematica) - Jonathan Hunt
- IS&T and SAVE Pilot - Oliver Thomas
- SuSE Linux Dual Boot T60 Laptop through GovConnection Pilot - Bill Cattey
List of Pilots ISDA (Pilot name & Project lead)
- Alfresco project for Content Management - Josh Scott & Chatherin Iannazzo
- MITBI (pilot project using Hyperion for forecasting & modeling) - Mary Weisse
- Jabber Project - Dennis Barron
- WebSSO (web single sign on) - Bob Basch & Sam Hartmann doing work, Chatherine Iannazzo overseeing project
List of Pilots OIS (Pilot name & Project lead)
Nothing reported from OIS.
IPTV will be moving into OIS from Academic Computing.
List of Pilots SAIS (Pilot name & Project lead)
Fladager reports no pilots based on e-mail to Meholic and direct report team leads
List of Pilots TSS (Pilot name & Project lead)
From Allison Dolan:
I could not think of anything on the telephone side that I would call a 'pilot'. There are several activities (e.g. ACD, Mir3, NameConnector upgrades) where we are phasing in implementation and we have testing etc, but it is on an implementation path - we are learning/tweaking, but the go/no decision has been made. Even VoIP, although still called a pilot, is really early phases of implementation rollout.
On the CG side, we have 'informal pilots' of the new Performance Appraisal process - some people are using it (volunteers), and we hope to get feedback. However, even here, the pilot framework is weak
List of Pilots AC (Pilot name & Project lead)
IPTV R. Winchester
List of Pilots VP - Office (Pilot name & Project lead)
None
VOIP? PM TBH
Working Group Meetings
- November 15, 2006 WIAPWG_Nov1506_agenda_action.doc
- December 6, 2006
- December 20, 2006
Work Completed so far">Work Completed so far
- Kick-off Meeting - November 15, 2006
- Working group wiki set up - November 16, 2006
- Prepare IS&T Leadership Group Presentation - December 20, 2006