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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIATHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Office of the Chief Information OfficerEnterprise Information Technology Services
Using PM Tools to Manage Services:
or how EITS is figuring out what ALL we do!
Lynn Latimer
Patrick Wagman
Date: 06/02/2008
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIATHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Office of the Chief Information OfficerEnterprise Information Technology Services
Overview
• Background• The Problem• The Solution• Path Ahead • Lessons Learned• Importance
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The School• University of Georgia• State Sponsored
– Over 200 years old– Oldest state chartered– Land grant (1/76)– 614 acres (main
campus)
• Located in Athens, GA– 60 miles from Atlanta
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The School• Students
– 24,800 undergrad– 8,300 grad/professional
• Faculty– 2,794
• Staff– 6,744
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EITS• Vision
– Continue in the role of state and national leader in information technology, and to be recognized as the first source for knowledge and expertise in the area of information technology.
• Mission– Provide a robust, reliable, and secure information
technology infrastructure, maintain essential production services, and offer world-class support.
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EITS• Core Areas
– Leadership for Information Technology
– Strategic Planning, Policy, and Advisement
– Business Technology Partnerships
– Client Services and Support
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EITS• Core Areas
– Information Security
– Information Management and Integration
– Enterprise Production Applications
– Infrastructure and Architecture
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EITS• Staff
– 220 Full time– 105 students
• Budget– $14 million central funds– $8.5 million cost recovery– $7 million Student Technology Fees
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EITS• Statistics
– 41,000 devices on network– 24,000 wireless network– 4,900,000 emails daily– 41,000 daily logins – 12,000 phone lines– 6,000 cable TV installations– 20 million mainframe transactions/month
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EITS• Fairly young organization
– Combined from existing organizations
– Many different units into one
– Divergent cultures still in organization
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ITPDS• Organizational Improvement
– Processes • Process improvement• Portfolio, Project and Service management
– Tools to implement• Quickbase• Clarity• Six Sigma/Business Process Management
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ITPDS
Strategic Planning & Portfolio Management
Assessment & Improvement
Predictable Lifecycle& Capacity Management
Focus: Alignment, Prioritization, Resource Allocation
Tools: Compact Planning, Clarity
Focus: Standards, Efficiency,
Assurance,
Compliance
Tools: Six Sigma, Dashboards, ITIL
Focus: Prediction, Optimization,
Depreciation Tools: Forecasting, Trending, Data Warehousing
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The Problem
We can’t get away with made up data!
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The Problem• EITS Does a LOT of stuff!
– Who?/What?/When? – That’s the problem
• We do it, but it is the right thing to do– May not be sure!
• How do we document?• How do we allocate?• How do we plan?
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The Solution – Big Picture
7/1/2004 6/30/2008
1/1/2005 1/1/2006 1/1/2007 1/1/2008
July 2006 - June 2007Tactical -Services
Alignment,Coordination
July 2004 - June 2006Strategic –
Planning Processes
7/1/2007 - 6/30/2008Operational -
Tool Implementation
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The SolutionStrategic
• Consolidated Planning– Alignment with the vision and mission of the
UGA and EITS
– Unified and integrated strategic and planning cycle
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The Path Behind -Strategic
Building the NewLearning Environment
Maximize ResearchOpportunities
Compete in a GlobalEconomy
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The SolutionTactical
• Identified and Organized Services
– Describe what we do
– Describe how we do it
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The Path Behind -Tactical
• Identify all– Core Areas– Services– Overhead
• Get consensus– Does everybody agree on what we do?
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The SolutionOperational
• Consolidated tools – Capture the data we need
– Provide the analysis we need
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The Path Behind - Operational• Find and learn the tool
– Try to use in-house resources
– Vendor backup, not primary source• Plusses and minuses
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The Tools• Clarity
– From CA
• Quickbase– From Intuit
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Clarity• Portfolio and Project Management
• IT Governance
• Organizational Alignment
• Demand and Resource Management
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Clarity Setup• Choose between Project/Services
• Using Projects – Even for services– More flexible (activities/tasks)– Problems
• Reporting Structure– Follows our core areas and services
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Clarity Demo
• UGA Clarity
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Quickbase• Intuit Product
• Provides for rapid development in web based environment
• Utilized for Workflow, Document Management, and Information Sharing
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The Path Ahead• Continual refinement/improvement
– Refine what and how
• Better organizational definition of services– True services, not applications
• Refining organizational key processes
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Lessons Learned• Constant communication
– Receive input/Get buy in
– Sell, Sell, Sell• Don’t assume others are selling
– Continual refinement• Not all service have work assigned
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Lessons Learned• Organizational Variations & Change
– Different sections ready for more/less
Race horseVS
Plow horseVS
Mule
• Only as fast as slowest group
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Lessons Learned• Change Management
– In-place from the START– Strategic and Tactical– Enforce!– Be ready for the Race Horse(s)!
• Training– Ongoing at all levels
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If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never,
never, never give up. Norman Vincent Peale
Lessons Learned
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Importance• Show one integrated approach for planning
• Show one method to handle services
• Understand resource requirements
• Articulate organizational commitments
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIATHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Office of the Chief Information OfficerEnterprise Information Technology Services
Summary• Background
• The Problem
• The Solution
• Path Ahead
• Lessons Learned
• Importance
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIATHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Office of the Chief Information OfficerEnterprise Information Technology Services
Key InformationResource Contact
ITPDS Lynn Latimer: llatimer@uga.edu
Patrick Wagman: pwagman@uga.edu
ITPDS Email: itplan@uga.edu
ITPDS Website http://eits.uga.edu/planning
EITS Website http://eits.uga.edu/
EITS Strategic Planning Model
http://eits.uga.edu/planningCycle/
Compact Planning Website
http://eits.uga.edu/compact
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