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

h3. 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  

h3. 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.


h3. 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

h3. Help! I am tryong to use a dynamic task list for you all to add pilots but am having trouble with this instance of it. Laxmi. Syntax problem. Fixed - Laxmi


h3. Add  Group, Pilot & Project lead dynamically

h3. {dynamictasklist:List of pilots} 




h3. Work Completed so far
* Kick-off Meeting - November 15, 2006


h3. Working Group Meetings (See Attachments)
* November 15, 2006  [^WIAPWG_Nov1506_agenda_action.doc]


h3. {dynamictasklist:NEXT STEPS}