The implementation team met to estimate the effort for adding budget functionality to RAFT. The requirement and additional scope came from the steering committee.
Assumptions about Scope
- Temporary stop-gap until COEUS provides the functionality. COEUS is the correct system for this.
- Budgets by G/L only, not at the line-item level.
- Budgets by individual Cost Objects and only for C.O.'s in the WBS Element category.
- Read: Project/P.I. budgets only, not department-wide.
- To release after forecasting functionality or delay entire project. Cannot come first.
Estimates
- 8-12 weeks for implementation.
- 6-8 weeks for release to IS&T production support teams.
- Added to the current schedule for RAFT (post March 15) we see an outside date near the end of July 2011.
- Some design work needs to be done up-front to plan for the whole set of functionality.
- If forecasting is to be released first, it will still be impacted by a month (mid-April release).
Risks
- Data conversion and future decom/transition to COEUS to be planned during development.
- Adding additional budgeting system to suite of existing ones.
- Need to check on availability of support teams (documentation, training, help desk) for new timelines.