EDUCAUSE presentation by EITS staff focuses on project management tools

Office of the Chief Information Officer Press Release
The University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

Friday, July 20, 2008

WRITER: Bert DeSimone, 706/338-9849, bert@uga.edu
CONTACT: Lynn Latimer,706/542-7620, llatimer@uga.edu

Patrick Wagman (left) and Lynn Latimer presented at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference in Jacksonville, FL

ATHENS, Ga.— On Monday June 2, 2008, Lynn Latimer and Patrick Wagman, EITS Planning and Decision Support, presented a session on Using Project Management Tools to Manage Services at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference in Jacksonville, FL.

The presentation looked at the use of project management tools as the tools for documenting, gathering and providing basic analysis of the identified services. The specific tools discussed were the QuickBase database system and the Clarity Portfolio and Project Management system.

Mike Dennis, associate CIO for Client Services, Infrastructure, and Operations noted that "they represented EITS well and it was one of the best attended presentations at the conference."

To download and view Lynn and Patrick's presentation (requires MS PowerPoint), please click below:

eits.uga.edu/cioIO/presPapers/pmtools-educause-0608.ppt

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