Get involved, share your knowledge, and mark your calendars for these professional development opportunities!

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 September 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.

IT Governance meetings

The full calendar is on the IT Governance web page.

September Governance meetings recap

• Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Full) – September 13
  • Link to STAC-Full Notes 
  • Upgraded WiFi enables additional devices to connect to MWireless. More testing.
• Data Governance Advisory Committee (DGAC) – September 16
  • Link to DGAC agenda
  • Personal Demographics – recommended next steps 
  • Sex and Gender Identity Data – reviewing data consistency
• ITS Unit Representatives – September 19
  • Link to Unit Reps agendas, presentations, and recordings
  • U-M Website Upgrade Project
  • Telephone Project Update
  • Apple TV in classrooms
  • MiStorage / MiBackup
• Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Core) – September 20
  • Link to STAC-Core Minutes
  • Mastering Data Management – new initiative
  • Software Directory – more titles need to be entered 
• Student Records, Curriculum, & Academic Advising (SRCAA) – September 21 
• In-Building UMNet Governance – September 23
  • MLane Update
  • Access Layer Switch discussion 
• Admitting Systems Production (ASP) – September 27 
  • ASP Introductions
  • DACA questions on applications
  • ITS Updates
• Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Full) – September 27
  • Link to STAC-Full Notes
  • ITS Web Hosting Services

Upcoming Governance October meetings:

• Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Core) – October 4
  • Link to STAC-Core Minutes
• Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Full) – October 11
  • Link to STAC-Full Notes 
• Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Core) – October 18 
  • Link to STAC-Core Minutes
• Student Records, Curriculum, & Academic Advising (SRCAA) – October 19 
• Collaboration Services Advisory – October 19 
• Data Governance Advisory Committee (DGAC) – October 21 
  • Link to DGAC agenda
• Admitting Systems Production (ASP) – October 25 
• ITS Data Center Governance – October 25 
• Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC-Full) – October 25 
  • Link to STAC-Full Notes

IT Communities of Practice activities

The full calendar is on the Communities of Practice web page.

September Community of Practice meetings recap:

• Unit Data Security Analysts – September 1
  • Discussion on conversion to Communities of Practice
  • IT Asset Management (ITAM) Auto-Discovery Business Case
• Business Intelligence – September 12
  • Business Objects upgrade and technical deeper dive
• GLAM-IT – September 20
  • Archivematica
  • Sharing 3D on the web with the UMORF viewer
• Project Management – September 21
  • Coffee Networking 
• AV – September 23
• Data Integration – September 26

Upcoming Communities of Practice October meetings:

• Project Management – October 5
  • Software Quality 101 – October 5, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.: We all want to use and produce quality software. But what is software quality? It means different things to different people – and is thus hard to define – but we surely recognize the absence of quality when a product fails to function. This presentation provides a common understanding of Software Quality concepts and terminology. You will gain an understanding of how requirements, user involvement, quality attributes, and testing all contribute to software quality, even if you only use or support vendor software products. (PDU 1 Technical)
• Unit Data Security Analysts – October 7
  • Community of Practice update
  • CUI
  • Browser isolation  
  • Research Data Stewardship Initiative
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity – October 18
  • The October 2022 meeting of the Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Community of Practice welcomes Jarrod Sandel, manager, Service Analysis & Improvement at Health Information Technology & Services (HITS), who will speak to the group about the concept of Major Incidents and the Michigan Medicine IT-specific process. (Disaster Recovery Zoom link)
• Technology Leadership – October 20
  • This meeting will have a U-M Technology Executive leadership panel that will discuss their leadership journeys and answer questions from the audience regarding leadership topics.
  • Panel:
    • Carrie Shumaker – CIO, UM-Dearborn
    • Cathy Curley – CIO, College of LSA
    • Kerry Flynn – CIO, Ross School of Business
    • Cassandra Callaghan – CIO, School of Dentistry
    • Tim Calahan – Chief Technology Officer – Michigan Medicine, HITS
    • Dan Maletta – Executive Director of Information Technology, College of Engineering
• Data Integration – October 24
• Storage – October 26
  • Community Updates
  • Brain Project Planning and Workflow – How Brain Imaging Leverages ITS Storage
    • Logan Walker, Biophysics PhD Student
    • Dawen Cai, Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Medical School Associate, Professor of Biophysics
    • https://cai-lab.org/brainbow-analysis
  • Open Discussion/Community Effort on How to Improve Usability of Data Den
    • Bring your creative, constructive ideas
  • Storage meeting notes
  • Storage Zoom link

• CRM/Salesforce – October 21
  • Winter Salesforce release notes
  • Dreamforce conference overview