Cornell contributions in Kuali’s early days
The Cornell Chronicle has done a story on the origins of KFS and Cornell developers’ early involvement, when KFS was just “Kuali” (before the advent of other systems developed by the Kuali Foundation). Aaron Godert and Bryan Hutchinson, mentioned in the piece for their work on the budding system, are key leaders in Cornell’s implementation [...]
The IT Benefits of Partnership
Nearly every aspect of technical work for the KFS Implementation Project is benefiting from our partnership with other higher education institutions that have implemented KFS or are working toward it. Sure, it’s well known by now that KFS was “built by higher ed, for higher ed,” and that KFS is a great fit for Cornell [...]
We need Cornell data!
In my last blog post I discussed the work of the KFS Interfaces team. This time around, I’d like to highlight the critical work of the Data Conversion team. If you look at the data in the KFS Test Drive, which is what the system is delivered with out of the box, you’ll see it [...]
“You have to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going…
or you might not get there.” – Yogi Berra Yogi Berra may have known a thing or two about project management. Out of the KFS project’s business process analysis effort (Fit sessions), we are seeing clear pictures of how each of the KFS modules will be used and how the system must be configured. For [...]
Managing Identity to Make Work Flow
Kuali Identity Management, also known as KIM, is the part of KFS that allows the system to access data about people at Cornell from existing data stores like the Cornell Directory and PeopleSoft. KIM also allows us to configure the data each person can view and the transactions each person can make in KFS. In [...]
Kuality: you know it when you see it.
No one sets poor quality as a goal. Of course we want good quality! But what is that? I’m Tony Lombardo, lead for the quality assurance (QA) effort on the KFS implementation, and I submit that quality begins with the team, not the application. Its principles are customer focus, continuous process improvement, and total team [...]
Kuali Rice: Grassrooting Kuali’s Grassroots
The first seed for Kuali Rice, the middleware and application framework that underpins all Kuali applications, was planted in January 2005 when a group of a dozen software developers and architects met bootcamp style at Indiana University for two full weeks. What happened there was a pure collaborative effort and the result, more than five [...]
Interface Analysis and Update Planning is Under Way
As we move from legacy financial applications to KFS, campus applications and services that interact with the central financial system must continue operating correctly. Making sure these interfaces are ready for KFS is a priority for the KFS Implementation technical team. During the last week of February, the KFS Interfaces team held several introductory meetings [...]
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