Project Management

Overview

The Office of Strategic Implementation’s Project Management team is responsible for developing and implementing long and short-term project plans to ensure the delivery of high quality project management services for a system-wide portfolio of strategic projects and initiatives. This includes applying consistent and effective organizational approaches utilizing research-based best practices and standards.

Services Offered

• Project completion within budget, schedule, and scope.
• Project governance.
• In-depth planning.
• Resource planning and management.
• Business, functional and technical requirements gathering and analysis.
• Gap analysis.
• Project management artifacts.
• Monitoring and tracking against budget, scope, and schedule.
• Issue and risk management.
• Technology, functional or operational development.
• Technical integration analysis against requirements and recommendation.
• Vendor relations and contract management.
• Business process engineering.
• Policy and business procedure development and/or integration.
• Status reporting, metrics and KPI reporting.

Project Tiers

Tier 1 Project: Strategic project involving multiple resources both internal and external, chancellor-aligned strategic project, large-scale/highly complex, system-wide impact, enterprise solution, or major operational/business impact. All project management services are provided to support these projects.

Tier 2 Project: Medium-scale project, medium in complexity, limited business or operational impact, may involve internal and/or external stakeholders, non-system wide impact. Select project management services provided, based on need and customer requirements.

Tier 3 Project: Small-scale project, low complexity, typically involving a single internal department with an operational or business process change. Project management templates will be provided to support these projects.