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New UMW Project Initiation and Measured Impact
MACRO PRIORITY - Prioritized Business Drivers (motivation)
1 – Keep the lights on - safe environment, systems (process & computing) integrity, basic needs met
2 – UMW government compliance [FA (government regulation) ; Enrollment (government reporting); AR - UM financial]
3 – Senior Management Strategic
4 – Efficiency (reduced workload, $ savings, higher capacity) – Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
+Cost, Effort, Benefit, Commitment
MICRO PRIORITIZATION (This is a further break down of 4 above)
Benefit / Effort
Efficiency (reduced workload, $ savings, higher capacity, opportunity for revenue)
Need Cost, Effort, Benefit, Commitment (can be obtained from project initialization sheet
PROJECT INITIATION INFORMATION (subject to Director and Sr. Management review)
1. Project Description & Purpose
2. Departments that are affected
3. Departments that are committed
4. Dependencies – List other department or system dependencies (~waitlist & common course catalogue)
5. Expected benefits per project (or by phase if larger project)
1. Show a path from material implementation back to human hours, dollars, capacity, or opportunity
6. Expected costs
1. Take into account all resources needed to fully implement, one time costs, and annual costs.
2. Training, communication plans, ITS and Department maintenance of the system
7. Timing – What is the best & worst case duration and project start timings
Remove the emotion from what is important – fact based decisions