March 2024 Project Update

This is an overview of the DRS Futures project updates as of end of March 2024. For the full update, please visit the Monthly Reports page.

Current Project Status:

  • Completed company profile research with HUIT Strategic Procurement and Gartner; will pursue recommendations on business continuity and disaster recovery plans as part of contracting
  • Completed change management communication plan for Phase III: Implementation
  • Started contract negotiations and requested draft SOW from vendor 
  • Started planning, prioritization and design for integration components that will be developed by LTS team
  • Surveyed stakeholders on functionality of prioritized components of the old system that will need to be replaced by new vendor or locally developed functionality and analyzed responses

Next Up:

  • Complete draft of DRS content modeling design based on vendor metadata layout
  • Define clear migration pathways for migration of DRS content to new system
  • Complete prioritizing DRS local integration components and start working on design of prioritized components
  • Continue planning and design for integration components that will be developed by LTS team
  • Start work on testing plan and assembling test data corpus in advance of software implementation and testing