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.