1. the perils of putting in a portal rocks & hard places Kevin Schlag kevin@byuh.edu Educause 2006 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 license

2. about us

12. about our organization

13. Library & Information Services

14. CIO MIS IT Infrastructure IT Operations Library Web Development & IT Projects

16. director web architect web programmer portal administrator

17. our portal story

18. background

19. needs analysis

20. business case

21. the purchase

22. project kickoff

23. identify the phases

24. design

25. testing

26. implementation

27. evaluation

28. ROCKS HARD PLACES WHAT WE DID WELL WHAT WE’D DO DIFFERENTLY QUESTIONS ROCKS

30. expectations beyond our wildest dreams

31. different definitions

32. external dependencies

33. Mindy and the 9-month flu

34. 9 women can’t have a baby in 1 month

35. rolling live date

36. new business workflow

37. managing an unknown project

38. necessary scope creep

39. ROCKS HARD PLACES WHAT WE DID WELL WHAT WE’D DO DIFFERENTLY QUESTIONS HARD PLACES

41. design/usability

42. control

43. department buy-in

44. technical explanations

45. how to explain LDAP to your grandma

46. cooperation from other IT staff

47. LDAP circular argument

48. chicken vs. egg

49. who owns the errors?

50. ROCKS HARD PLACES WHAT WE DID WELL WHAT WE’D DO DIFFERENTLY QUESTIONS WHAT WE DID WELL

52. project management

53. flexibility matrix

54. least flexible kinda flexible most flexible scheduleX scopeX resourcesX

55. define definitions

56. Wikipedia: A portal is a framework for integrating information, applications, and processes across organizational boundaries.

57. existing resources

58. team work

59. agile

60. low-hanging fruit

61. consulting

62. bought not built

63. research

64. enterprise portals report http://www.cmswatch.com/portal/report/

65. integrated product

66. well branded

68. communication

69. users own features

70. data stewards

71. security

72. architecture/ environment

73. roles, not users

74. stealth marketing

76. ROCKS HARD PLACES WHAT WE DID WELL WHAT WE’D DO DIFFERENTLY QUESTIONS WHAT WE’D DO DIFFERENTLY

78. consulting

79. communication

80. marketing

81. portal first

82. old links

83. training

84. inclusive project team

85. manage misconceptions

86. the 6th toe syndrome

87. ROCKS HARD PLACES WHAT WE DID WELL WHAT WE’D DO DIFFERENTLY QUESTIONS

88. QUESTIONS? COMMENTS?

89. MAHALO Kevin Schlag kevin@byuh.edu Educause 2006 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 license