PMO Monthly Status Report Project Name VETERANS EDUCATION TRANSFER SYSTEM Project Manager William Nyariki Reporting Period 08/2009 Project Sponsor Linda Baer Est. Proj. End date 03/15/2010 Project Owner Steve Frantz ITS Manager Alfred Essa Project Description:Create a Web application to assist military veterans registering for Minnesota State Colleges and Universities courses in understanding how education gained during military service and military occupational skills (MOS) correlate with predetermined American Council on Education (ACE) course tracks and programs. This application will provide site navigation tools and information to plan curricula and career programs, allow dynamic comparison of military transcripts and MOS with ACE, and enable informed choices regarding possible and most probable study programs.
Executive Summary
Status Green (Controlled) Yellow (Caution) Red (Critical) Schedule
Description
Reason for Deviation
The project is on schedule There are no scope changes at this time
External resources assigned to the project
Scope Budget Comments:
$300,000
Technical resources from OPI to work with the internal team to build the VETS application Technical lead is the internal staff
New/Updated Issues ITS does not support IE6 during QA Testing
Milestones/Deliverables
Estimated Completion Date
Actual Completion Date
Status (On Schedule, Complete, At Risk)
09/15/2009
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Buy/Build Approach
05/01/2009
06/30/2009
Completed
Develop Technical Requirements/User stories
07/15/2009
09/21/2009
On Schedule
Software Release 1/User Demo Feedback Software Feedback Software Feedback Release Release 2/User 3/User Demo Demo Demo Public
8/27/2009
10/08/2009
On schedule
10/08/2009 11/19/2009 01/05/2010 2/11/2010
11/19/2009 01/05/2010 02/11/2010 3/15/2010
On schedule On schedule On schedule On schedule
Software Release 4/User Feedback/Feature freeze Code Freeze/Final Launch QA/VETS
Project Assumptions and Dependencies
Assumptions
Availability of technical resources to work on the project Project is budgeted Other priorities that take up systems resources
Dependencies
09/15/2009
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