As an outcome from IS&T Leadership Group discussions, a work group has been formed to define for IS&T what a "pilot" (beside the person or computer flying the plane) is and when we should use pilots. The members of the working group are:
- Laxmi Rao - Academic Computing
- Kyle Pope - Client Support Services
- Jonathan Hunt - Client Support Services
- Darlene Fladager - Relationship Managers
Goal
Our goal is to put together a definition of a "pilot", collect some best practices around when
to use and what makes a "pilot" successful and test our definition and best practices on a couple
of current pilots.
We will also pull together a simple framework and guidelines for pilot inititaion, control
and closeout We plan work closely with the Project Management Team to leverage existing
materials.
Potential candidates:
- Altiris for Remote Disk Management
- IPTV
- Bit Locker for Disk Encryption
Definition: PILOT
A Pilot
- Is a Project (complete with scope, deliverables, sponsor, project leader, etc.)
- Has Resources (people time, budget, equipment)
- Answers some Question(s) (e.g., if we build it, will they come(customer demand)? will this
technology work?) - Has a planned closeout (i.e. go, no-go decision point; if it can't be killed/stopped it isn't a pilot)
- Has an exit strategy for go and no-go outcomes.
- Experimental pilots have a discovery focus and
- Evolutionary pilots have a delivery focus and need to build in a plan for potential support and sustainability.
Current List of Pilots
Starting List:
- VoIP
- IPTV
- Desktop Management
- Stellar Images
- Flexibile cluster work spaces
- Hyperion
- Disk Encryption
To get started, we have divied up IS&T and will be collecting lists of all the current pilot projects.
- ISDA - Jon
- CSS - Jon
- OIS - Kyle
- AC - Laxmi
- TSS - Kyle
- VP Office - Laxmi
List of pilots
Work Completed so far
- Kick-off Meeting - November 15, 2006
Working Group Meetings (See Attachments)
- November 15, 2006
NEXT STEPS
- Collect list of current pilots projects - by December 4, 2006
- Next group meeting - December 6, 2006
- Status report of working groups efforts to Leadership group - December 21, 2006.