Committee Meeting - July 24, 2014

Darren Bondy
Secretary to the Committee
August 4, 2014

Present:

Dave Wallace (Chair), Meltem Kurtman (acting secretary), Bruce Campbell, Andrea Chappell, Marko Dumancic, Bob Hicks, Bill Ince, Dawn Keenan, Dave Kibble, Robyn Landers, Paul Miskovsky, Carl Nagel, Terry Stewart, Jason Testart

Guests:

Colin Bell, Ted Bleaney

Regrets:

Darren Bondy (secretary), Erick Engelke

Agenda

7. Next CTSC Meeting

[Will be held Thursday, August 7, 2014, at 1:30 p.m., in MC 2018A.]

EBI – Building meaningful metrics and KPI’s (Ted Bleaney)

Ted Bleaney attended the meeting to present an overview on Enterprise Business Intelligence (EBI) and on building meaningful metrics and KPI’s. Topics included:

• EBI
• Capability vs. Technology
• Cognos 10 migration
• Methodology overview
• Metrics
  • What and why
  • Objectives
  • Categories
  • Correlation
  • Availability
• Methodology
• Cycle
• Options
• Recommend
• Implement
• Production
• Review
• Ranking Matrix – Metrics

View the full presentation on Enterprise Business Intelligence (PDF) and Building meaningful metrics and KPI's (PDF).

Developing the IST Annual Plan follow up (Dave Kibble)

Dave Kibble provided a follow up on developing the IST annual plan. Topics included:

• Project list to Portfolio
• Work to date and what’s new
• Future annual report framework
• IST annual plan
• Fall PMG update

View the full presentation on Developing the IST Annual Plan.

Chair’s Remarks

• New Provost Ian Orchard started on July 1^st; Wallace has met with him and will continue to provide updates about what is happening at the faculty level and centrally in IST.

Approval of the minutes of the meeting of June 26, 2014

The minutes of the meeting held on June 26, 2014 were accepted as distributed.

Roundtable Reporting

Science (Paul Miskovsky)

• The new version of the Student Evaluation tool has now been launched; decision to launch was made by the faculties of Science, Math and Applied Health Sciences.
  • Some initial complaints from professors was that they would have liked the results immediately.

Computer Science (Bill Ince)

• A discussion amongst the group had been initiated, via email, regarding current sprinkler setups, and best practices for avoiding this issue in the future.
  • Information from those who responded was gathered in: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/MachineRoomFireProtectionCampusPractice
  • A later discussion about appropriate access to the page resulted in it moving to: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/reports/CTSC/MachineRoomFireProtectionCampusPractice/

Updates (various)

Email (Bruce Campbell)

• No update

Active Directory (Bruce Campbell)

• No update

Campus Firewall (Bruce Campbell)

• No update

IT Strategic Plan (Dave Kibble)

• Will be giving an 18 month update soon.

IT Security (Jason Testart)

• Please provide any feedback on the Email Security Roadmap that Testart distributed to the group.

Next meeting

The next meeting will be held on Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 1:30pm, in MC 2018A.