Project Title: Implementation of a replacement CyberBear portal for students and employees.

University of Montana – Information Technology

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Project Title Implementation of a replacement CyberBear portal for students and employees.
Project Topics
Skills & Expertise
Project Synopsis: Challenge/Opportunity
We are beginning to start work on replacing our legacy CyberBear portal for students and employees from our ERP vendor, Ellucian Banner. Our challenge will be to design and implement a new portal product from Ellucian that integrates our Banner Self Service functionality for things like student registration, pay your bill, accept financial aid, view grades, and other employee self service functionality. Other challenges include what features/functionality we should include for various personas/profiles, single sign-on, along with any needed customizations that need to call API's from other systems.
Pre-requisites include provisioning of cloud servers/resources from our portal vendor, Ellucian. An implementation/kickoff/training from Ellucian on what is involved in the implementation of a new product call the 'Ellucian Experience' portal. An inventory of features/functionality will have to be spec'd out to be included in the new portal. Single Sign on will have to be configured. Outreach to various departments and user groups will need to be conducted for a needs analysis of what features to include, and the 'look and feel' of how widgets are arraigned in the portal. Coordination of programmers will need to be managed in order to deal with any customizations, modification, or enhancements for API integrations or other links to outside systems.
A successful first phase would include the planning, preparation, implementation, and initial prototyping of a working 'CyberBear 2.0' portal using the Ellucian Experience platform. Wireframes or layouts of all the needed features/functionality would be mocked up and ideally layed out in the new portal environment. The project team could then hand off the project to our internal project management team at the end of the semester, with the goal to launch the new portal after some extensive testing with the various administrative departments on campus in the summer through Fall.
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Project Timeline

University of Montana – Information Technology - Implementation of a replacement CyberBear portal for students and employees.
Due Date
Activities
Deliverables
Status
Action
Sun, 04/03/22
12:00 AM UTC
Complete Temperature Check Evaluation #1
Required Evaluation
Evaluation submission is required.
Sun, 06/05/22
12:00 AM UTC
Final Presentation
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Event Description:
Students will present the project process and a draft of the final product to the sponsors on 5/2/22, 5/4/22, or 5/6/22.� These will be 30 minute presentations.� Teams have one more week to make any final changes before the product is handed off by 5/13/22
Sun, 10/02/22
12:00 AM UTC
Complete Project Kickoff Evaluation
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Evaluation submission is required.
Wed, 11/02/22
12:00 AM UTC
Negotiate and Sign NDA if required
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Deliverable submission is required.
Description:
Teams and sponsors will complete a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and sign it, if required by the sponsor.� Please use the template provided in the resources area, unless the sponsor has a NDA agreement they want to use.
Project Selection by Student Teams
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Student teams will select the projects that they want to work on by 1/31/22 and start reaching out to sponsors for a quick meeting.� The meetings can be in person or via Zoom or another video chat platform.
Project Charter
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This is the second draft of the project charter.� Teams will make edits to the first draft based on instructor feedback before seeking approval and signatures from the project sponsor.� This document includes information on the scope of work, budget, schedule, resources, and planning for the project.
System Design Document
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Description:
This is the plan of what to build the final product for the project sponsor.
Final Project Report and Hand-off
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Description:
Teams will deliver a final project report and conduct a hand-off and training meeting with the project sponsor to complete the class portion of the project.
End of Project Peer Assessment
Required Evaluation
Evaluation submission is required.
Description:
  Please complete this�Peer Assessment
Agile Development Meetings with Project Sponsor
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Description:
Team will start regular (weekly or every other week) development meetings with project sponsor to show their progress on the final product and make appropriate changes.
Sponsor Project Evaluation
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Description:
This evaluation is for the project sponsors to provide feedback to the instructor on their experience with the project and the student team.
End of Project Self Assessment
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Description:
Please complete this Self Assessment

Program Managers

Name Organization
Shawn Clouse University of Montana

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