Macquarie University has recently upgraded their Moodle to Version 3.1 in collaboration with Blackboard. In this presentation Macquarie University's Project Manager, Shirley Li will discuss the implementation of the upgrade and cover some of the lessons they learnt over the 9-month project.
Lynley Clark - Project Manager from Blackboard will discuss the processes taken from a project management point of view. We will also introduce a new Project Management platform called Teamwork that will be a shared collaborative space that will be used in all future upgrade projects to with Blackboard.
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Project Team
• Project Manager
• Technical Lead
• Testing Team Lead
• Testers: Helpdesk Support, Learning Designers,
System Administrators
• Communication Lead
• Training Coordinator
• Stakeholders: Central IT and Faculty Learning
Designers
• External: Blackboard Project Team
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Process and tasks
• Initiation phase
• Phase 1 – Testing and incremental
fixes
Initiation
Testing
and
fixes
Catchup
development
Go live
Project
Closure
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Process and tasks
• Phase 2 – Catchup development
• Phase 3 – Go Live
• Phase 4 – Project Closure
Initiation
Testing
and fixes
Catchup
DevGo live
Project
Closure