Steering Committee (accountable to project sponsors)
- Communicate with the campus community and achieve widespread buy-in
- Establish a business case, vision, and planning principles
- Develop a decision framework
- Issue a report recommending project scope, goals, and strategies
- Appoint a project manager and management team
- Approve project plans, budgets, deliverables, and schedules
- Approve solution proposed by the project management team
- Function in an advisory capacity through implementation
Project Manager (accountable to the steering committee)
- Provide project leadership
- Structure and define the budget
- Develop a project plan, including budgets and schedules
- Monitor budgets and schedules throughout the project
- Promote campuswide partnerships
- Oversee various project teams, promoting project buy-in
- Serve as liaison between project teams and steering committee
- Report project progress periodically to steering committee
- Resolve conflicts that may arise among project constituencies
Project Management Team (accountable to the project manager)
Conduct business process evaluations (or oversee teams appointed to do this)
Conduct a technology evaluation (or oversee a team appointed to do this)
Align business process needs and technology options
Communicate expected outcomes to campus community
Develop requirements document and issue request for information (RFI)
Validate RFI responses against requirements
Evaluate and recommend buy, build, or partner options
Select a solution (or oversee a team appointed to do this)
Recommend solution, final budget, and schedule to steering committee
Implement the system (or oversee teams appointed to do this)
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