KSTN 21: Kuali Days VII Wrap-Up

Final wrap-up of Kuali Days VII in Newport Beach. Four days of useful sessions and productive meetings boiled down to their essence, R1-R2 Planning: Day 2 Highlights, No “They” in Kuali, Berkeley joins Kuali Coeus and Incubating Next Kuali Project?

KD7 and R1-R2 Planning Wrap-Up
The big take-aways from 80+ KD7 sessions and numerous special meetings (KS Board, RICE Board, KS LU Service Design Review, KS Implementation and KS R1-R2 Planning) last week include:

• Kuali Community Strong and Growing
  Participating institutions continue to grow and interest remains high across all projects.
• KS Release 1 is Priority 1
  While R2 and campus implementation plans are ramping up there should be no doubt that Release 1 is our first priority.
• R1 Development Timeline Refined
  Sequencing has been adjusted and development teams doing another review of milestone estimates.
• Firm Up Institutional Signoff for Release 1
  Institutions are encouraged to review and perhaps expand and strengthen their signoff procedures for major milestones in R1 and R2.
• SME Involvement in Release 1 Important
  Ongoing SME participation in Release 1 will be critical to R1 development and include helping with creation of test plans, supporting development teams and helping coordinating QA testing and user acceptance.
• Kuali Student is Committed to and Supports RICE
  A healthy RICE is critical to all Kuali projects. KS has committed developer resources and will continue to commit developer resource to help ensure RICE’s success. Look for a RICE charter soon.
• Project Management Improvements are Coming
  The addition of a full time project manager is a top priority and a hire is very close. Focus will be on coordination among teams, highlighting team dependencies, gaps and priorities.
• We’re All in This Together as they say in HSM
  Good progress is being made because of resources each institution brings to the table. Thank You. Keep them coming. Plans and other teams depend on their availability and absences are quite noticeable.

Misc Tidbits

Berkeley Growing the Next Kuali Project?
Shel Waggener, Ron Coley, Paul Dimond and Bill Allison demonstrated Berkeley’s online Continuity Planning Tool “UC Ready” at KD7 and discussed of how it would be moved into the Kuali paradigm as the first Kuali Incubator project. More info at http://obr.berkeley.edu/BCPT.html.

Partner Recap
Berkeley joins Kuali Coeus (the project formerly known as Kuali Research Admin); UWash becomes official KS founder; Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) shares founder status w/ Delta.

No “They” In Kuali
A number of Kuali Days VII attendees were sporting "No They” buttons to emphasize interdependence and collaboration among all Kuali projects. I will note only a few of ‘Them’ got the buttons ;) (Interesting ‘No They’ / Sakai connection, see http://snipurl.com/69nu5 )

R1-R2 Planning – Day 2 Highlights
The second day of the R1-R2 Planning meetings included:

• QA and Documentation strategy
• Institutional signoff on R1 work
• ‘White papers’ plans
• New wiki roles (Scott S=Design, Brian=Usage)
• Use Case team plans for R2

The day ended w/ an examination of What’s Working (People, Tools, Progress) and What Needs Improvement (Project Mgmt, Meetings, Resources). Action items and meeting notes from both days can be found at https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/yICFBg.

LU Service Design Review notes at https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/MoArBg

KS Board Status Report as PPT at https://test.kuali.org/confluence/download/attachments/51201/Kuali+Student+Status+Repor+November+14%2C+2008.pptx