“How ya doin’?”
As the project manager for the KFS at Cornell implementation, people curious about the project often stop me while I’m visiting offices around campus. Inevitably, I’m asked a variation of the question, “Sooo, how’s the project going? Are you really going to make the date of July 1, 2011?” As we wind down 2010, I’d [...]
Fit for Phase Two
Hello KFS blog followers, Last month, the Fit team met a huge project milestone, and nearly two months early! We presented the last of ten module functional reviews, meaning all Fit sessions for the modules to go live in July 2011 are complete. We’ll do the Fit analysis for the Endowment module in the next [...]
From Opening Day toward the World Series!
What an honor it’s been to watch the progress of the module teams over the last year. These are the folks learning the intimate details of each KFS module and analyzing the way we’ll use them at Cornell—the fit process you might have read about in Barb’s recent post. When the fit analysis process was [...]
“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 [...]
Introducing…the Fit team! And the crowd goes wild!
You’ve heard me describe some of the KFS system-wide big wins over the past couple of weeks. Next up are the great features we’ll get from each of the KFS modules, as described by the individual module leads who head up each one. To set the stage for more big wins, I’d like to introduce [...]
We’re Having a Fit (and it’s a GOOD thing!)
If you’ve spent any time with folks on the KFS Implementation project, you’re sure to have heard the word “fit” used over and over again: “It’s a fit; welcome to our Fit Session; one size DOES fit all.” We even call the functional team the Fit Team! While we’d like to tell you that this [...]
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