We invite you to get involved, share your knowledge, and mark your calendars for these meetings!
IT governance ensures the effective and efficient use of IT resources and capabilities across U-M in order to meet the goals of the university. Michigan IT Community of Practice are groups where like-minded IT professionals can share information, experiences, and ideas around a particular topic in support of the university’s missions. Advice and guidance are provided by strategic governance committees and multiple advisory groups.
Below is a summary of May and June Governance and Community of Practice activities, as well as upcoming meeting information. You are invited to learn more or to add an upcoming meeting to your calendar, visit the IT Governance web page or the IT Community of Practice web page. Get involved, share your knowledge, and mark your calendars for these professional development opportunities!
IT Governance meetings
The full calendar is on the IT Governance web page.
May Governance meetings recap:
- Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Core) – May 3
- Link to STAC-Core Agenda
- Michigan IT Revamp
- Software Directory Update
- Telephone Service Upgrade Project
- Salesforce
- Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Full) – May 10
- Link to STAC-Full agenda
- Full launch InCommon certificate service announcement
- Unit Reps – May 16
- AFS
- Website Upgrade Project
- Adobe Creative Cloud Express
- Telephone Upgrade Project
- Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Core) – May 17
- Link to STAC-Core Agenda
- Key Initiatives
- Prepping for upcoming meetings:
- June 7: A. Rosenberg
- June 21: Annual Business Meeting (charter, membership)
- Project Management CoP: RFP Process – May 18
- Data Governance Advisory Committee (DGAC) – May 20
- Link to DGAC agenda
- Charter
- In-Building UMnet Governance – May 20
- Future technologies: softphone, network, WiFi
- Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Full) – May 24
- Student Administration Strategic Advisory Committee (SASAC) – May 27
- Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Core) – May 31
- Link to STAC-Core Agenda
- Accessibility SPG Review
Upcoming June Governance meetings:
- Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Core) – June 7
- Link to STAC-Core Agenda
- HITS Strategy & Vision
- Procurement Update
- Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Full) – June 14
- Student Records, Curriculum, & Academic Advising (SRCAA) – June 15
- Collaboration Services Advisory Group (CSAG) – June 15
- Data Governance Advisory Committee (DGAC) – June 17
- Unit Reps – June 20
- Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Core) – June 21
- Link to STAC-Core Agenda
- Annual business meeting
- In-Building UMNet Governance – June 22
- Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Full) – June 28
IT Communities of Practice activities
The full calendar is on the Communities of Practice web page.
May Community of Practice meetings recap:
- Business Intelligence – May 2
- Topic TBD
- Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity – May 10
- Guest Speaker: Ray Holloman: Determining Recovery Order
- Link to Agenda
- Women in IT – BTAA – May 18
- Coffee Chat
- Project Management – May 18
- Data Integration – May 23
- AV CoP – May 27
Upcoming June Community of Practice meetings:
- Project Management – June 15
- Coffee Chat
- Women in IT – BTAA – June 15
- Coffee Chat
- Zoom link
- Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity – June 21
- For the June 21 meeting of the The Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Community of Practice we welcome Kevin Hayes, CISO of Merit Networks for a presentation on how to plan and execute a disaster recovery tabletop exercise. Kevin is an expert in this area, running Merit’s Data and Disasters exercise. This session is open to all who are interested.
- Zoom link to the June 21 Disaster Recovery presentation by Kevin Hayes
- Speaker Bio
- Data Integration – June 27