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To date, over 400 members of staff across units involved in the UT Works Program have had the opportunity to take part in UT Works demo sessions since they began back in February. These sessions have ranged from small in-person meetings with individual shops to a virtual town hall held for all Utilities & Energy Management (UEM) staff. With more demo sessions being scheduled, the number of folks getting their first look at UT Works will continue going up this summer.

Over the past ten weeks, the Unit Testing of UT Works modules achieved an important milestone by ensuring all the parts of the Operations & Maintenance (O&M), Capital Planning and Project Management (CPPM), Go Mobile modules, and their related components perform as expected before End-to-End (E2E) testing can begin. The inclusion of teams from each involved in the UT Works Program was critical in completing testing. These participants completed over 70 different test scenarios during the unit testing period, providing valuable feedback to the implementation team.

In this issue: Updated Phase 1 Timeline Supports Fall 2024 Goal / UT Works Program Phase 1 Fall Update / Change Management Training Supports a Successful Transition / Benefits of UT Works / Looking Ahead

With the approval of Executive Sponsor Jim Davis (SVP/COO), the UT Works Program recently released an updated Phase 1 Timeline. The updated timeline includes input from the leadership of units involved in the program and endorses the shared goal for campus to begin using UT Works in the Fall of 2024. To meet this goal, the program will adopt methodologies and practices that prioritize the timeline.

UT Works Program Phase 1 Fall Update shares the current status of each module included in Phase 1, including Operations & Maintenance (O&M), Capital Planning and Project Management (CPPM), and ReADY (Request Forms).

On Tuesday, June 20, the UT Works Program will release Prototype 2 (P2) of the Operations & Maintenance (O&M) module at a launch event kicking off the Design Confirmation process. This milestone comes after obtaining approvals from the units taking part in the program of the design recommendations documents generated by the two rounds of design sessions, which concluded at the end of March 2023.

This summer, the UT Works Program team will pull together a workgroup of representatives from across campus to learn more about how they submit work requests and how to best capture that information.

This spring saw the kick-off of work on the Capital Planning and Project Management (CPPM) module. The first round of design sessions began in April and will run until late June.

The UT Works Program passed an important milestone when the Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Design Sessions concluded at the end of March.

On March 23, members of the Transformation and Communications Networks received an update on the UT Works Program along with an introduction to the Change Management plans the Organizational Readiness (OR) team will use to prepare UT staff for the transition to the UT Works system. Meetings were held for both day and evening shift staff to accommodate as many network members as possible.