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March

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New Strategic decision about "Holistic approach to IT and Web systems" approved by Simon

IT Support coordination will be a responsibility of "Product and Support team". 
It is a change because up until now they handled only CT2 support.

Disadvantages:

  • additional responsibility that requires time
  • lack of knowledge and experience
    • Tira is strongly qualified (BS in Comp Sci; Master in Info Management Systems; Network certification)
    • Tracie and Denise are beginners in IT

Advantages:

  • increased value to Jaguar and Market = increased job security
  • opportunity to gain new knowledge
  • opportunity for Holistic approach (treating IT and CT2 as a whole, not fragmented); examples:
    • full vision and control over user/systems interactions and work flows
    • more services could be integrated into CT2/Cloud like web folders;
    • integration between CT2 and non CT2 system like Sugar and CT2

Transition agenda:

  • phase 1 to be completed by the end of March
  • Jaguar IT support knowledge exchange (KE)
    • 2a IT documentation: blog11, notes11, wiki IT category
    • 2b regular KEs
  • Career plan for BAs:
    • agreement on responsibilities, goals and developmental stages
    • Formal IT training

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Who is Who and Vendors list

This info is maintained in Vendors IT

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IT documentation

All wikis related to IT are in Category:IT.

IT Support MAIN WIKI has up to date instructions on how to navigate this directory.


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Desktops and users info (NY office)

It is managed xls attached to this Mantis: 0002803: ** Desktops and users info (NY office) **

Please add columns as required (MS office version, etc)

Every time document is changed new version is attached.

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March is a month of Support

To: Tira, Tracie, Andrei From: Alex

Upper management brought to my attention that number of complex and critical bugs is increasing.

This makes experience of end users very painful and leads to a lot of frustration on the part of our clients.

We need to resolve this rapidly.

I believe that this happens due to the following reasons:

  • growing list of new features increased complexity
  • we are introducing new changes rapidly and without careful analysis
  • most people on our team have only minimal understanding of CT2 components outside of components they "own"
  • not enough verbal communication between all members of the team particularly with developers
  • non technical BAs and MOs make bad design decisions and force them into development
  • SAa are doing often a poor job and creating analysis that has errors
  • MO-BA-SA-Dev-QA-BA is too long and too linear (no cross communication or group communication)

How to resolve this

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