Staff Notes Daily Announcements

The Cheyenne cluster will be unavailable beginning at 6 a.m. MST on Tuesday, February 25, to allow CISL staff and HPE engineers to perform critical infrastructure maintenance, repairs, and system software updates. The system is expected to be returned to service no later than Saturday evening, February 29. This will be Cheyenne’s last scheduled outage until the third quarter of this year.

A system reservation will prevent most batch jobs from executing after 6 a.m. Tuesday. Jobs and login sessions that are still running when the maintenance period begins will be killed. Cron also will not be available during the maintenance window.

The Casper cluster, GLADE and Campaign Storage file systems, data-access nodes, and HPSS will remain available throughout the week except for approximately four hours beginning at 8 p.m. MST on February 25 while a key network infrastructure component is rebooted. Users will be kept apprised of the effort throughout the week with updates in the CISL Daily Bulletin.

Come learn how to make an impactful pitch at the U-Innovate 2020 Competition. Several of the U-Innovate judges will provide you with their opinions on what makes an impactful pitch.  The first 30 minutes will be a general session open to everyone, followed by 15-minute sessions where you can meet one-on-one with a coach to brainstorm your idea or get specific pointers.

Come with just the idea in your head or a draft pitch and presentation. It’s up to you.  This training will take place from 1 - 2:30 on Friday, February 28 at FL2 – 1001.  The general session will be webcast.

You must sign up in advance for the individual coaching sessions.  It’s first come, first served for 12 sessions, so act quickly.  (If there is more demand, we will look at scheduling more sessions.)  To sign up, please email Wendy Anderson.  The deadline to sign up is Monday, February 24, at 5pm.

UCAR Operations Innovation 3-2-1 (OI321): PPM Town Hall

Please join Wendy Torrance as she takes a deep dive into the Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Initiative, which provides a common application that enables UCAR teams to enhance project portfolio prioritization, resource management and project execution capabilities. This is an opportunity to learn more about the project, its purpose, who is involved, and the timeline. There will be a presentation and time for questions. The session will also be recorded and webcast with an opportunity to ask questions remotely.

February 13, FL2-1022, 1 PM - 2 PM

February 19, ML-132, 1 PM - 2 PM

Webcast Link for both sessions

Contact Wendy Torrance (ext. 1904) for further information.

UCAR Operations Innovation 3-2-1 (OI321) Background The President’s Council is taking a strategic investments portfolio approach to new large-scale initiatives that aligns with our 10-year Strategic Plan, and our Operations Plan. Collectively, these initiatives will be known as UCAR Operations Innovation 3-2-1 (OI321). The 3-2-1 refers to the number of years these initiatives -- and new ones still to be reviewed and approved -- will be active. OI321 will be a three year effort and see initiatives last anywhere from three years to just one year.

This approach provides a roadmap of planned activities as well as a cost model that leverages our General Fund. The portfolio will be reviewed by senior leadership (with the project managers) monthly to ensure active management, risk mitigation, and change control.

Are you leading a science and/or research project or planning to lead a project in the future? Are you willing to embrace a new way of thinking and to actively and openly discuss your science or research project? Then please join Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Lory M. Wingate for this one day learning course on March 10, 2020 from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. in CG1 North Auditorium.

Complex Systems Methodology provides some key tools and methods that can help drive research and science projects. This session will provide an opportunity to explore how to incorporate these tools and methods to advance your research and science projects. This will be an exploration, where real projects are used to tackle the most pressing challenges. This is much more than schedule, scope, risk, and budget management. Time will be spent in addressing proactive change management and emergent behavior; understand how to apply measurements and metrics to drive life cycle progression; appreciating tailoring and learning how to tailor effectively.

Learn with real-life projects of your choosing – leave with your fully developed executable plans.

To register, please visit the UCAR Human Resources Workday Learning website.