July? Nope, double June instead.
Saturday, June 30th, 2007Sometimes when a team is on a winning streak, the media may tell us that they won 22 out of 28 games in June. And so, instead of July 1st, the team just says it is June 31st, June 32nd, and so on. That’s a good idea for ITS because we have had a really good month. The SIS project promised training databases to be available on June 18th. It took heroics, but it happened on time. That meant that colleges that prepared to start their own training could get started. It had been a long wait, but significant numbers of Maricopans can see the real software and plan how to serve students. Nice.
The SIS project also had a milestone to begin integration testing in June. More heroics, and that happened too. 60 people came to integration testing kickoff. That shows that across Maricopa people are mobilizing to shake the problems out during the summer so that things go smoother in October. Inspiring. We discovered that our planning for the number of remote printers was off, almost by a factor of ten. At first glance, that’s a bummer — but on second thought it is wonderful… we know NOW that we have to do some scrambling, instead of finding out on a Monday morning in mid-October. Good job.
Besides that, District Office staff located a good site for a 2nd data center, and moved with record speed to acquire it. A longstanding need is on the threshold of being achieved. Also our Identify Management development accomplished their target to roll out product by end of June. We have a place on the ITS website that summarizes all our points of pride. You can get ongoing details there. But I wanted to mention here that July has been cancelled, and June has 61 days this year.
Congrats to ITS and to the SIS/NSS project teams. Keep the winning streak going!




