Role

Members

Primary Responsibilities

Communication

Sponsor

Christine Meholic

  • Provide overall direction, goals & funding
  • Approve charter, scope, milestones, budget
  • Remove obstacles
  • Monthly written status report
  • Invitation to attend steering committee 1st Monday each month

Steering Committee

  1. Bart Dahlstrom
  2. Wendy Bastos
  3. Kevin Lyons
  4. Ken Levie
  5. Gillian Emmons
  6. Christine Meholic
  • Provide oversight, schedule resources
  • Define roles & responsibilities
  • Set standards, guidelines, processes, metrics
  • Remove obstacles, resolve issues
  • Approve go/no go decision
  • Monthly steering committee meetings - October - January
  • 10/5/2009 (Tentative)
  • 11/2/2009 (Tentative)
  • 12/7/2009 (Tentative)
  • 1/7/2010 (Tentative)

Project Manager

Ken Levie

  • Complete project on time, on budget
  • Manage overall project: plan, track progress, resolve issues, escalate when necessary, ...
  • Communicate: with project team, sponsors, steering committee, stakeholders, broader community
  • Ensure appropriate business and IS&T resources are assigned to project tasks
  • Coordinate work among project teams, data warehouse, OIS, IS&T help desk, ...

 

Transport Manager

John Tuttle

  • Define process, lists, tracking procedures
  • Plan and track effort to move pending transports to production before freeze
  • Manage any critical transports during freeze to ensure they are included in upgrade
  • Manage all transports related to support pack project

 

Core Team: Technical Leads

  1. Basis/security - Ron Parker
  2. ABAP, ITS - Wai-Ming Li
  3. Web - Rich Murphy
  • Prepare environments
  • Apply support packs
    related to support pack project * Execute SF3 modification testing; Resolve & retest issues
  • Unit test (joint with functional team)
  • Analyze & resolve issues
  • Execute cutover activities
  • Coordinate work of basis team and developers

Core Team: Functional Leads

  1. HR/Payroll - Frank Quern
  2. Financial - Mary Ellen Gearin
  3. EHS, Travel -Lee Collier
  4. Procurement (xECAT3), Facilities, Parking - Rita Zhovnirovsky
  5. ECAT3 - Elda Prudden
  6. AP, Smart - Ken Levie
  7. Functional Team leads - Julie Block, Bob Romanowicz, Hao Wen
  • Unit testing (joint with technical team, track and report process)
  • System integration testing (define scope, update & execute scripts, track and report progress)
  • User acceptance testing (assist if needed)
  • Serve as primary liaison with business owners
  • Analyze & resolve issues
  • Execute cutover activities
  • Coordinate work of business analysis and business owners

Core Team: QA

  1. Wendy Bastos
  2. Amanda Gilbert
  • Define & communicate process & templates to manage test cases
  • Set standards for quality assurance process
  • Oversee QA work on the project

Extended Team

  • sais-sap@mailman.mit.edu 
    • which includes all SAIS & Data Warehouse staff supporting SAP.
    • Conact Kevin Lyons, Wai-Ming Li or Bart Dahlstrom if you are not on the list and think you should be.
  • Perform tasks as directed by core team leads

Business Owners


  1. GL Reporting, JV - Magdalene Lee
  2. HR/Payroll - Scott Ball
  3. HR/Benefits - Judy Raymond
  4. Facilities - Lisa St. Croix
  5. Stockroom - Tammy Doyle
  6. EHS - Laurie Veal
  7. Spons. Billing - Doug Levie
  8. Gen AR - Donna Cairns
  9. Cashiers - Cheryl Whelan
  10. Property: Kevin Milligan
  11. Fund Centers: Peggie McGrath
  12. IST Telecom: Allan Wallace
  13. Tech Review: Jim Coyle# AP - John Larkin
  14. Procurement - Mary Bacci, John Doyle
  15. eCAT - John Doyle
  16. Travel - John Doyle, Paul Arsenault
  17. SMART - Mary Bacci, John Larkin
  18. OSP - Steve Dowdy
  19. OBO - Rob Slauzis
  • Perform user acceptance testing (define scope, update & execute scripts, retest as needed)
  • Report issues via RT
  • Train end users if any changes are discovered (none anticipated)
  • Sign-off that updated system is accepted for your business area and support packs can move to production
  • Perform any business cut-over activities
  • Validate production system (define criteria, validate system)
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