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IT Projects

Who are these pages for?  

  • Managers with corporate funding who now need to work with IS to take their project forward
  • Managers who have been in discussion with Senior IS staff about a new system, and who are at the stage of formalising it as a project
  • Staff who have been asked by their Head of Department to work with IS on putting in a new system or a new function of an existing one
  • New project managers at the university employed for a specific corporate IT project needing to understand the university context and standards
  • Staff in IS who are managing internal projects who need to understand the IT PM framework.

  What is a Project?
A project is a temporary endeavour with a defined beginning and end (usually time-constrained, and often constrained by funding or deliverables), undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value, carried out by people who don’t normally work together. A project is frequently risky and involving uncertainties.
  
 

Where do I find what I need?
There’s information about the framework, the associated project management processes, and the documentation needed to plan, manage, and track, a project to completion.

IT PM Overview
The 5 stage University of Brighton Project Management method:
      Think It      Plan It      Do it      Deliver It      Close It
This describes what each stage is for and what needs to be done at each stage.

IT PM Tool
A graphical representation of the framework that has links to the supporting documents at specific stages.

IT PM Documents
The core document templates and guides to be used in IT PM – Project Brief, Business Case, Project Initiation Document, Costing Form, Sizing Form, Project Logs, Highlight Report, Customer Acceptance Form etc.

Starting to Manage an IT Project
An outline of where to find project management guidance material, on these pages and elsewhere.

Gaining Approval
A description and flowchart for how IT projects are approved- which currently is run separately from funding approval.  

Support from the PMO
Provides a description of the role of this new function in IS, and its relationship to individual IT projects.

   
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