EDUCAUSE | Podcasts and Project Management

E07 Podcast: Improving IT Governance Through Formal Change Management

kellywalker — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:31:15 -0600

This 24-minute podcast recorded during the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference features Danny Smith, Senior Director IT Services, Marquette University speaking on Improving IT Governance Through Formal Change Management.

The session abstract:

Changes to complex systems require careful planning and coordination to ensure additional incidents are not created in the production environment. This presentation will detail how Marquette University implemented ITIL-based change management to stabilize the infrastructure, gain visibility of work, and comply with financial audits.

E07 Podcast: IT Project Management Methodology - How Much Is Too Much? It Depends!

kellywalker — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:51:34 -0600

This 25-minute podcast recorded during the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference features David B. Allen, Assistant Director, Applications and Architecture, University of Rochester and Doug Ryan, Project Manager, University of Rochester speaking on IT Project Management Methodology: How Much Is Too Much? It Depends!

The session abstract:

With focus from leadership and commitment across IT, the University of Rochester has developed and implemented a flexible project management strategy. It helps align projects into manageable programs that support the university's strategic mission. This presentation will highlight the development process, challenges, and implementation of a successful project management methodology.

E07 Podcast: Wiki and Project Management

kellywalker — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:56:25 -0600

This 41-minute podcast recorded during the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference features Geoffrey Corb, Senior Director, Student Information Systems, The Johns Hopkins University and Stephen Hellen, Project Manager, The Johns Hopkins University speaking on Wiki and Project Management.

The session abstract:

This session will introduce wiki concepts and explore their use in project management and in supporting IT systems in higher education. JHU's implementation of a new student information system extensively uses an enterprise wiki, which will be highlighted, along with use cases, examples, and lessons learned.

EDUCAUSE2006 Podcast: Developing Project Managers

Carie417 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:17:15 -0600

In this 47-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Jane Bachand, Amy Baker, Pamela Heath-Johnston & Deborah Lauriano in a session entitled Developing COllaborative Project Managers in IT. They share the steps they've taken to change from a traditional organization of technical project managers to an organization with well-rounded project managers who have additional leadership, administrative, analytical, interpersonal, and organizational skills.

E2005 Podcast: Partnering to Achieve Campus Technology Needs

podcaster — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:56:10 -0600

This 49 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled A Technical and Nontechnical Model of Partnering to Achieve Campus Technology Needs.

E2005 Podcast: Determinants for Success and Failure of Educational Innovation Projects

podcaster — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:22:15 -0600

This 39 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Determinants for Success and Failure of Educational Innovation Projects.

A Conversation with MIT's Jerry Grochow

mpasiewicz — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:02:00 -0500

In this podcast, we'll listen in on a 17 minute interview with Jerry Grochow about what's going on at MIT and gather some thoughts on vendor consolidation, project management, relationship management and the next wave of IT leaders

CUMREC Podcast on Collaborative Administrative Systems Governance

mpasiewicz — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:46:00 -0500

This podcast offers insights into Princeton University's processes involving Administrative Systems Governance. We had some problems with the audio on this one, but it seems audible. The running time is 58 minutes.

An Interview with Jaime Galiano

mpasiewicz — Fri, 20 May 2005 05:48:00 -0500

In this podcast, Jaime provides some information on the session he led at CUMREC 2005 entitled, When the Rubber Meets the Road: Moving from IT Policy Development to Implementation. He also shares a few thoughts on Project Management and the EDUCAUSE Project Management SIG/CG. (Running Time: 8:03)

Podcast on Project Governance: Avoiding Administrivia

mpasiewicz — Wed, 04 May 2005 04:57:00 -0500

In the attached recording, we'll listen in on the 2005 Western Regional Conference session from Lisa Kosanovich, a Project Manager at BYU. Her presentation is entitled Project Governance: Avoiding Administrivia