Corporate Systems and Educational Purposes JISC-CETIS 2010#cetis10scs Jim Everett.

Corporate Systems and Educational Purposes

JISC-CETIS 2010 #cetis10scs

Jim Everett

Review of Course and Class Approval andReview Corporate Information Management Review Records Management Review Timetabling Project

Unified VLE Review of Corporate Governance

Enhancement Led Institutional Review Review How We Do Everything!

Reorganisation and Review

Aspirations

Remove unnecessary steps

Stamp out repetition, duplication and variation

Single source data

Simplify access to data

Squaring the Circle?

Review of Course and Class Approval and Review

General agreement that current arrangements are not tenable

Process modelling Information flow not data structures Decision points not timings or criteria Highlight areas of ambiguity/complexity Propose some innovations

Generalised model addressing the “common variations”

BPMN diagram

Predicated on a data management solution

System’s architecture and technologies overview

Presentation LayerUser Interface Components, Presentation Logic

SharePoint UI, ASP.NET, jQuery, AJAX

Service LayerOrchestration, Service Interfaces, Message Types

Windows Workflow Foundation, Web Services

Business LayerDomain Model, Business Entities, Business Workflows

Domain-Driven-Design, Windows Workflow Foundation, .NET

Data Access LayerO/R Mapping, Service Agents

NHibernate, SharePoint Object Model / Web Services Access Components

Data StoresSQL Server, SharePoint Lists, Document Libraries

Interoperability Problems

The data structures are not the problem! There is a place to hold all the data (more or less)

The problems/bottlenecks/issues centre on Putting the information into the process

On time Complete Compliant with requirements

Getting access to the information When needed In a reusable form Not buried in a mass of irrelevant data

Corporate v. Education?

Academic Entrepreneurs v Academic Innovators Problem is too much entrepreneurialism

Impose discipline on entrepreneurs Problem is NOT too much innovation

Good policies, but not embraced Training and resources, accessed by a few Harness corporate processes to provide

information to quality monitoring

Standards and Specifications

Entirely driven by demands of external agencies HESA, UCAS, Hot Courses Diploma Supplements, Teachers' Profiles

Generally poor fit with internal data requirements Often need to tailor data making whole

automated extraction problematic No desire to pro-actively adopt external data

models, especially for internal applications

Reflections

Approval v. Cycle

Timetable v. Process Flow Unwillingness toEmbrace Complexity

Seeing the Big Picture Why is it so hard to talk about this?

Jim Everett

Development and Innovation Unit

Information Services Directorate

[email protected]

@jeestirling

PiP: Principles in Patterns Project

http://www.principlesinpatterns.ac.uk