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Project Management Design Team

Formed to compare and advance the alignment of Project Management Office (PMO) practices across Ithaca and Weill Cornell Medicine, this working group also partners with project managers across the CEMI program.

Key Update

Quarter 2, October – December: Compared project management practices and began work to align these practices.

  • Established a regular cadence of CEMI and Workday ERP project manager and project lead meetings with portfolio reviews.
  • Strengthened communications and improved project management tools, including governance for Smartsheet and ServiceNow usage.
  • Enhanced program reporting, documentation sharing, and coordination through updated SharePoint repositories, Teams Rooms, the CEMI technical vertical calendar, and Risks, Assumptions, Issues, & Dependencies (RAID) logs.

 

Next Steps

Quarter 3, January – March: Continue managing multi-campus CEMI dependencies across the Workday ERP and Kindsight Donor and Engagement Experience projects and with the Customer Relationship Management design team and other, CEMI-related initiatives.

  • Provide cross-vertical coordination and leadership reporting.
  • Evaluate ServiceNow, Smartsheets, and other tool adoptions as part of the long-term IT Service Managment (ITSM) project management strategy. See also: ITSM design team.

 

Design Team Leads

Victor Farrell
Associate Director, Service Portfolio Management
Weill Cornell Medicine

Becky Joffrey
Director of Digital Innovation & Strategy
Ithaca-supported campuses

CEMI’s Six Vertical Focus Areas or Workstreams

a table with six legs

Achieving a seamless digital environment across Cornell will require coordinated progress on six interdependent initiatives — like building all six legs while simultaneously raising the table.

 

Channels within the Technical Workstream

 

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