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h3. Who are we?

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.  
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.  
  
{scaffold:name=CSS Pilots}
{table-data:CSS Pilots} 
|| Pilot ||Due Date||  Project Manager   ||  Pilot URL     || 
|{text-data:Pilot} |date-data:Due Date|{text-data:Pilot URL}|{text-data:Project Manager} |{list-data:status} 
{list-option}In-Progres{list-option}
{list-option}Completed{list-option}|
{table-data}
{scaffold}

 



h3. List of Pilots  ISDA (Pilot name  & Project lead)

 

h3. List of Pilots  OIS (Pilot name  & Project lead)




 


h3. List of Pilots  TSS (Pilot name  & Project lead)




 



h3. List of Pilots  AC (Pilot name  & Project lead)



 




h3. List of Pilots  VP - Office  (Pilot name  & Project lead)


 


h3. Working Group Meetings

* November 15, 2006 [^WIAPWG_Nov1506_agenda_action.doc]

 


h3. {color:green}Work Completed so far{color}

* Kick-off Meeting - November 15, 2006
* Working group wiki set up - November 16, 2006
 

h3. TODO
h3. {dynamictasklist:NEXT STEPS}