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4/19/1999 GSLIS: UT Austin 1
Information Management LIS 387.8
4/19/1999
Worksheet 7
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4/19/1999 Lower Colorado River Authority 2
What are your cost factors?
• Phase 1 - initial implementation of RM software– indirect - training of staff; time spent away
from duties to perform analysis
– direct cost - purchase project management software, possibly hire temporary staff
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4/19/1999 Lower Colorado River Authority 3
What are your cost factors?
• Phase 2 - long term implementation which includes indexing and organizing paper files and inputting data into database– indirect - space and equipment
– direct - hire temporary help
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4/19/1999 Lower Colorado River Authority 4
What skills are needed?
• Knowledge of organizational history
• Knowledge of records management
• Knowledge of project management
• Knowledge of departmental processes
All are resident within LCRA
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4/19/1999 Lower Colorado River Authority 5
Who will take ownership? What resources will they need?
• Tad Howington, with upper level management support (funding for temps?)
• Phase 1 - Bill, Manager of Records Center– needs project management software
– will need to train temps if used
• Phase 2 - Ann, Records Associate will need temps
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4/19/1999 Lower Colorado River Authority 6
What are major risks to the project?
• personnel - danger of losing staff, person with most historical knowledge is retiring, could be early, out on leave, may last longer than expected
• communication- will never get on anybody’s agenda - users aren’t vested
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4/19/1999 Lower Colorado River Authority 7
What are major risks to the project?
• Organizational - moving staff and services to other locations
• technological - network downtime
• PSSoft - will be more difficult to migrate data from current system to new
• time - not enough - shut down main system in September
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4/19/1999 Lower Colorado River Authority 8
What are some milestones?
• May - project started
• June - PSSoft manuals and demos arrived
• July - PSSoft implemented
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4/19/1999 Texas Medical Association Library 9
What are your cost factors?
• lost revenue, lost man-hours, overhead costs
• direct - cost of alternative resources, such as CD-ROMs rather than online access
• lost ability for patrons to access material online
• lost material (replace books, etc.)
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4/19/1999 Texas Medical Association Library 10
What are your cost factors?
• Man-hours needed to collect data
• Cost of alternative solutions
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4/19/1999 Texas Medical Association Library 11
What skills are needed?
• diplomacy
• understanding scope of problem and costs
• knowledge of alternative solutions
• technical knowledge (could be better)
• understand Datatrek program
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4/19/1999 Texas Medical Association Library 12
Who will take ownership? What resources will they need?
• Ownership - Nancy and Lorie• data for justification• staff to collect data • time• knowledge of Datatrek contract• knowledge of computer problems• pass problem to upper management
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4/19/1999 Texas Medical Association Library 13
What are major risks to the project?
• division director may not buy into project
• Administrative services (MIS) may be unsupportive
• staff don’t keep accurate logs
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4/19/1999 Texas Medical Association Library 14
What are some milestones?
• logs completed within first month of project implementation
• meeting between library administrator and division director
• meeting between two division directors (MIS and library)
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4/19/1999 Career Counseling Center at UT 15
What are your cost factors?
• staff time for planning, evaluating, serving clients
• cost of equipment - computers, tables, chairs, publications, transporting equipment
• training peer counselors for phase 2
• move into maintenance phase
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4/19/1999 Career Counseling Center at UT 16
What skills are needed?
• planning, design, training
• thorough understanding of career services
• dealing with university & locating facilities
• dealing with students
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4/19/1999 Career Counseling Center at UT 17
Who will take ownership? What resources will they need?
• Ownership - Lynne and Kendra (director and assistant director)
• staff• equipment (have)• time to evaluate efforts• marketing plan• volunteers
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4/19/1999 Career Counseling Center at UT 18
What are major risks to the project?
• not getting authorization from UT
• not getting students’ attention
• losing staff
• unsupportive staff
• program works too well (can’t handle increased workload)
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4/19/1999 Career Counseling Center at UT 19
What are some milestones?
• approval of administrators
• completion of staff orientation to program
• all equipment will be assembled by July 1
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4/19/1999 IC2 20
What are your cost factors?
• indirect - space requirements, moving, staff time
• direct- equipment - computer, filing equipment, storage boxes, RM staff, automated RM database
• offsite vs. onsite storage of inactive records
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4/19/1999 IC2 21
What skills are needed?
• knowledge in records management (don’t have)• knowledge of organization• knowledge of UT rules and regulations (new RM
will have to learn)• have skills with languages• have skills with student records
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4/19/1999 IC2 22
Who will take ownership? What resources will they need?
• Ownership - Bob (director) & Susie (controller)
• Time and money
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4/19/1999 IC2 23
What are major risks to the project?
• resistance from staff
• lack of follow-through after project started
• records manager quits at critical time (in implementation phase)
• lack of funding
• implementation delays
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4/19/1999 IC2 24
What are some milestones?
• Acceptance by administration
• initial evaluation
• present feasibility report
• complete initial evaluation