The SCO has named Dave Dawson, SCO Division Chief Information Systems and CIO, to the 21^st Century Project as Project Director. He is responsible for oversight of the day to day project activities.

The SCO will begin conducting stakeholder meetings with the Civil Service Agencies in May/June to provide status and answer questions. The CSU Project Team will participate in information gathering pertinent to the CSU project.

The SCO/BearingPoint project team continues to review and refine the Blueprinting efforts for Civil Service. The implementation dates for the CSU remain Q1 2010 Pilot(s) and Q2 2010 for all remaining campuses.

The SCO hosted a meeting of SCO/BearingPoint and CSU project leadership, managers, and team leads on April 17^th to review and discuss joint project efforts. The focus was review of the project management approach for activities/tasks that require collaboration to execute.

A Project Integration Management (PIM) Team has been established to plan and manage the joint activities. PIM Team members are Dennis Duarte, SCO Functional Workstream Manager, Russ Nichols, SCO Chief Technology Operations, Mike Scheidt, BearingPoint Integration Manager, Shane Mirise, BearingPoint Technical Integration Manager, Elizabeth O’Shea, CSU Project Integration Manager, and Brendon DeLong, Project PMO Coordinator. This team is developing a consolidated project plan which considers key CSU and Civil Service milestones.

• Business Process Team Update
  • Business Process documentation was posted to the 21^st Century website on March 11, 2008 for campus review through April 30^th. The input received from campuses will be incorporated and communicated to Campus Coordinators and other campus stakeholders via webcast in May. The team is now focused on confirmation of the Official Employment Roster with the State Controller’s Office and analysis of Benefits specific business processes for subsequent campus review and input. The team will also contribute to the development of a survey of campus practices related to specific functional areas of CMS baseline utilization.
• Application Integration Team Update
  • The team continues to focus on developing and testing connectivity between the CSU and SCO environments, including infrastructure, communication and security issues. The team also continues to develop and review the areas of application integration which include:
    • Employment and Payroll Related Transactions
    • Time and Labor Data
    • Benefits Data
    • Labor Cost Distribution
• Data & Reporting/Data Warehouse Team Update
  • The team is preparing to share documentation regarding the results of Data Warehouse requirements with various campus constituent groups. This activity is targeted for May.
• Change Management and Communication Team Update
  • The CSU Project Management Team has conducted campus visits at all CSU campuses and the Chancellor’s Office, except one which is scheduled during April. At the conclusion of the visits the Change Management and Communication (CMC) Team will update the project Communication Plan based on feedback received from campuses.
    
    The CMC team will be participating in the development and communication of the above mentioned campus survey.

Be sure to check out the CSU/SCO 21^st Century Project list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) which is maintained on the project website. If you have any questions that you would like to see included in the FAQ list, please send them to 21questions@calstate.edu.

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