Welcome to the Ferris State University’s project management virtual office for Information Technology (IT) projects. This site has been established to help guide our customers in requesting IT projects.

How do you know if your request is a project? If it meets two or more of the following criteria:

• Requires 80 hours or more of ITS total work effort
• Requires effort from more than one department
• Requires institutional funds (exclusive of salaries)
• Has a large university impact (affects all faculty, affects many students, Banner integration, etc.)

See the full Definition of a Project. If you have an IT request that is not a project, please contact TAC.

Information Technology Services (ITS) is in the process of implementing project management methodologies intended to improve processes, communications, and success of IT projects. To accomplish this, IT needs to thoroughly identify resources and assign priority to university projects in alignment with our mission and strategic plan.

In this section, you can review the request process, make a project request, and create a project charter.

• Project Request Process
• Submit a Project Request Form
• Work with ITS to complete a Project Charter

Information Technology Services’ goal is to collaborate with all divisions and departments to establish priorities on projects to ensure IT is aligning its resources with the University. To accomplish this in a highly integrated technology environment, the University has established the following groups to review and prioritize IT project requests:

• Applications Technical Team to thoroughly vet the technical aspects of project requests
• Functional Area Coordinating Team (FACT) to focus on Banner and Banner integrated applications (such as MyFSU)
• Applications Steering Committee to review and prioritize the application project requests.

See the full Organizational Support Model .

• Full Disk and Media Encryption -- 98% complete
• Migrate Banner servers behind the Internal Firewall -- 80% complete
• WebNT Replacement -- 70% complete
• Public Safety Video Surveillance
• Active Directory Migration -- 5% complete
• Business Continuity Software -- 50% complete
• ZenWorks 10 -- 45% complete
• KCAD Novell Server Replacement -- 5% complete
• DR & Business Continuity -- 15% complete
• Innotas - PPM Software for ITS department -- 5% complete
• DegreeWorks -- 5% complete