The Information Technology and Facilities Planning teams recently completed their discovery stage gate meetings with the Project Sponsors and Stakeholders. The Operations and Processing Team is finalizing its discovery stage gate presentation materials. It is scheduled to hold its meeting with the Project Sponsors on February 10. The next group to be scheduled is the Alumni and Development team, which anticipates going through the process by the end of February.
The Business Planning group has divided into four small groups to tackle the key discovery items related to the strategic financial plan, budgeting processes, and allocation methodologies for the state appropriation, revenues, and expenses. We anticipate this group will go through the discovery meeting with the Project Sponsors in March. The IT team is excited to announce that its Colleague project is kicking off with our partner Ferrilli. We will be launching the project team in the next week and will be prioritizing scheduling our business process review efforts. As shared during the most recent Board presentation, the scope of this project includes a thorough custom code review, unpacking years of customization in our environment to support a more streamlined business process, address support concerns, and set us up for long-term agility. Driven from the business process reviews will be adjustments to Colleague to support the new business of our colleges and the system. Ferrilli will be a close partner helping us to lead this project and providing critical resources to support our teams with doing this essential work. Membership and governance for this project will be uploaded to the transformation website in the next week.