AACRAO Spotlight interviews are published biweekly before major professional development meetings. They feature our conversations with industry experts, highlighting key issues and promoting sessions and workshops at the upcoming conference.
In this issue of Connect, we talked with registrars on how they improved their project pipeline through a Project Prioritization Process and shadow systems. We also talked with University of Wisconsin-Madison students who are redesigning their Registrar's Office in three weeks.
Do you know how many projects your office is working on at one time? Or do you have too many projects coming in and not enough resources to implement them? Learn how the Registrar's Office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison figured out how to manage their project pipeline by implementing a Project Prioritization Process.
This week, AACRAO talked with Leslie A. Gardner, PeopleSoft Developer/Project Manager and Phil Hull, Associate Registrar for Application Development and Technical Services from University of Wisconsin-Madison on their session "How Did Peter Piper Pick His Projects and Prune His Project Pipeline?"
Read our interview with Leslie here.
With limited technological resources and staff, many smaller institutions create internal systems to complement their enterprise-wide options, improvising with the technology and software at hand. These “shadow systems” are applications and databases developed and used by end users and can be a creative technology solution to improving office operations.
Andrew Marx and Sandra Fallon-Ludwig from Brandeis University will share their experience with shadow systems in their session “Improving In-House Processes Using Available Technology: The Case for Shadow Systems.” AACRAO spoke with Sandra on her upcoming session.
Read our interview with Sandra here.
The Office of the Registrar partnered with the Department of Design Studies in the School of Human Ecology to tackle an ambitious design sprint project with 15 students — redesign the Office of the Registrar’s space in three weeks. Students elaborated on the tools and practices of Design Thinking to recognize challenges and propose creative ways to transform the space of the Registrar’s Office to promote collaboration and functionality.
Read our interview with Scott, Grace, Robyn and Emily here.