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Project History

Work has been ongoing for the SIS Project since 2018. Below are some key past project milestones and also some upcoming milestones.

 

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Understanding Our Business Processes

Project team members and SMEs have done a considerable amount of work in understanding and documenting what we do and why we do it. They worked together to understand our business process landscape, analyze and map processes, and envision an ideal state where system limitations to not dictate process.

Business Process Landscape

Our process inventory is an effort to clearly document the business processes that keep our university running and the business process landscape captures and categorizes all of our process areas and documents them in generic terms that are easy to understand.

Business Process Analysis

Process mapping is a collaborative activity during which SMEs share steps involved in a process, why they’re important, who's involved, and what the effects are. Process mapping not only helps us understand what we do currently and why we do it, but where we can improve in the future.

Process Analysis by the Numbers

  • 117 processes identified
  • 67 processes selected for deep dive
  • 200+ Current State discovery sessions
  • 170+ process maps created in Promapp
  • 233 SMEs participated

Ideal State Development

During ideal state development sessions, SMEs from across the University gathered to define system agnostic ideal state processes. Creating an ideal state moves the project one step closer to collectively defining detailed requirements for a future student information system.

Understanding the User Experience

The SIS Project is the most comprehensive so far in its pre-implementation discovery work. The more work we do upfront, the easier it will be to implement a new student information system.

The Fall 2019 Experience Analysis and Design project combined qualitative and quantitative research in order to holistically understand a student, staff or faculty university experience. The learning from this project has informed, and will continue to inform, the choices made for the SIS Project.