• review charter Project Management Business Analysis (PMBA) Working Group Charter
  • soften some of the language
    • stewards of tools/wiki/improvements
    • motivating staff to use tools and ask for help/support each other
    • provide incentives
  • Pat will make edits and send out to the group next week
• FY12 membership
  • new PM positions being hired: OI, AS, Admin
  • skills sets to compliment our focus on requirements and design
• meeting frequency (twice a month beginning November)
  • goal to move to once a month by spring 2012
• CoP roll out
  • learning forum - January launch twice a month?
    • staff are asking for targeted workshops
    • keep PM and BA separate
    • leadership/facilitation is key for participation
  • coaches/mentors and CoP wiki - soft launch in November?
    • communication channels
      ·         MTS Biweekly message – update on PMBA work/tools/templates/coaching
      ·         Digital Signage – 2-3 slides talking about where to get tools/templates; getting help with coaching; link to wiki (I will find some interesting images that might be on the slides)
      ·         Inside IS&T – Article in December issue with pointers to wiki
      ·         January – “Informal Info” for IS&T staff – learn about PMBA flexible tools
    • HR Payroll feedback on wiki very positive
• Project Execution Guidelines for Senior Staff: Project Execution Guidelines.docx** make questions more open ended so more analysis happens
  • biggest challenge of not having department wide project reviews is resource planning and allocation

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