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Kuali Research Administration (KRA)Kuali Financial System (KFS)
Project Management
Andy Slusar
KRA Project Manager
Cornell University
Jim Thomas
KFS Project Manager
Indiana University
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Agenda
• KRA/KFS Guiding Principles
• Productivity Tools
• Collaboration & Communication
• Project Staffing
• KRA/KFS Integration
• Open Source Misconceptions
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Guiding Principles
• KFS based on Indiana’s FIS• KRA based on MIT’s Coeus• Scope Statement is the developments team’s
“contract” with functional stakeholders• Functional Changes are approved by the
respective Functional Council• Technical Standards are governed by the Kuali
Technical Council (KTC)
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Guiding Principles
• Maximize commonality of business practices• Make configurable as much as possible given
time and resource constraints• Burden of proof falls on advocates for change to
show benefits exceed costs• All changes subject to “The Reality Triangle”
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The Reality Triangle
Scope(KFSFunctionalCouncil) Time
(Project Mgr)
Resources
(KFS Board)
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Collaboration Tools
Project Organization and Coordination – Confluence from Atlassian (wiki pages for
documentation, collaboration, etc)– JIRA from Atlassian (task tracking)– Sakai (document sharing, email archive, etc)– Omniplan, MS Excel and Project for project
plans and Gantt charts– Resource planning sheets
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Collaboration Tools
A Walk Through Confluence
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Collaboration
Requirements for success
• Communications
• Governance
• Commitment
• Respect
• Trust
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Community
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Communication
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Problems on your project?
Who you gonna call?
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Kuali Man!!
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Communications
Communication Plan
Communications Tools
Meetings
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Communication Tools
Choose the appropriate medium
• Face to face• Video Conference/Skype• Telephone• Chat• Email
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Meetings
• Board• Functional Council• Technical Council• Project Leadership meetings• Developer meetings• Code Reviews• One on ones• Face to Face meetings• Focus groups• Informal
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Effective Meetings
• Have an agenda• Record Action Items• Track and follow up • Formation of ad hoc subgroups
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Project Resources
• Role definitions
• Development Team Sourcing– Tendered Resources– Onshore consulting– Offshore consulting
• Backfill for functional resources
• Training
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KRA/KFS Project Differences
• Project differences– Coeus relationship vs. IU FIS– Team size/project scope– User community differences– Rice Evolution/Extraction– Tool Differences
• KRA Functional Team uses Confluence• KFS Functional Team uses Sakai
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KRA/KFS Integration Team
– Define integration points– Static Data
• Person Data• Organization Data
– Internal– External
• Cost Elements
– Transactional Data• Proposals• Budgets
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Open Source Misconceptions
• Part time developers• Not industrial strength• Not well tested• Hap-hazard governance• No documentation
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Kuali Community Source
• Full Time Dedicated Development Teams • Dedicated Functional Resources• Built for 24X 7 reliability and built to be scalable
for use by the largest institutions• Intensive QA/Testing process• Structured and well documented governance
process• Extensive functional and technical documentation• Partner Institutions dedicated to the success of
Kuali!• Commercial Affiliates available to provide
expertise
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How are we doing?
How will we measure “success”?
• Are we delivering working code that provides functionality that meets our SMEs expectations?
• Are we meeting our project deadlines?
• Do we have successful implementers?
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Sound like fun?
Want to get more involved?
Do you have experienced Java Developers?
Do you have functional expertise?orJoin the Kuali Partners Program (details at
http://www.kuali.org/about/partners.shtml)
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KFS Project Management
Questions?