In summer 2007, the business office of student affairs in UW-MILWAUKEE decide to upgrade their financial software.The Vice-Chancellor assigned one person from each department to the project. I was representing the office of student Life.
The time frame of the project completion was 6 month.
The first stage is to form teams for different section of the project according to their expertise.
Teams members comes from different department within Students Affairs, each person was looking at the project an opportunity to improve their financial services.
As IT professional, our teams was working on the technical specification of the software and the implementation phase. After developing a clear picture of team member's skills and strengths, it will be much easier to match tasks and responsibilities with the team member best suited. It is important at this stage of the process to encourage team feedback and input about job assignments or preferences. The direction from IT stand point was clear but to meet the business requirement was the difficult part of the project. The was no clear communication between the business site of the project and the technical part. there was also clash of leadership.
After couple month on the project, the teams were not meeting their dateline and the overall project has to be reassessed and it was decider to outsource a business side of the project and IT in house.
