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New project management tools are coming!

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We're really pleased to announce that we will be updating our project management tools (and process) for CI organizations and employees that request minor and major projects from the Division of Technology & Communication (T&C).

In spring 2014, we entered into a partnership with TeamDynamix, a leader in project management and IT service management solutions for higher education, to begin implementation of a new project and portfolio management information system for T&C.

This new system will provide simpler, more streamlined approach for tracking, reporting, analyzing, editing, communicating, and archiving technology projects. The tool has some great features for project communication and collaboration: routing workflows for request approval, built-in chat and discussion forums, a knowledgebase, document repositories, and reporting dashboards, to name a few. In addition, users will be able to access TeamDynamix through single-sign-on via MyCI, or even add comments to project communications automatically via email. 


This week, TeamDynamix is on-site visiting with T&C managers and staff to provide initial system configuration and training. The implementation team is making great progress and learning the in's and outs of the system flow. 

Within the next several days we should have a draft of the start-to-finish project flow completed, from request to charter to planning/execution to closure, which is really exciting! There's so much to learn, and so many capabilities and options; in some ways it's been like drinking from a firehose. There’s still a lot of other detail to be finished, but it’s all coming together. We still need to tackle creation of our remaining user base (all CI employees), and migrating our open projects and requests to the system. 

We will begin to roll-out the system in August to T&C employees, followed by a wider roll-out for campus organizations and employees in fall 2014. 

Please contact Peter Mosinskis at peter.mosinskis@csuci.edu with any further questions.