Mission

The ITU Security and Project Office will support consistent project management practices for the Information Technology Unit (ITU), enabling project leaders to successfully deliver their promised value to their customers. The Office ensures that effective project management is a core competency of the ITU.

Goals

Develop and maintain standard project management practices and guidelines for the ITU.

Develop an ITU Projects intranet site where projects are easily listed, updated and viewed by ITU staff. A common accessible site will foster communications between departments, identify and verify dependencies, and increase awareness of resource commitments.

Monitor ITU Projects to verify that communication between project teams and customers is ongoing, relevant, and effective, and that project teams continue to deliver value to their customers despite changes in customer circumstances.

Provide ITU coordination with other departments' projects within the university when needed.

Provide training and mentoring to current and potential project managers within ITU. A focus will be on management skills that foster collaboration, consensus building, promise management, and value delivery.

Coordinate, with Mason Web Team, a web development process that involves vendors who could develop web pages for departments and act as a contracts administrator for web development outside ITU.

Supervise IT security efforts through the leadership of the Director, IT Security and the university's Security Review Panel (SRP).

Provide assistance in major IT decisions through the efforts of a Technology Coordinator and the Technology Council.