Dear Colleagues,
Just a reminder about our latest opportunity and also that the deadline has been extended until end of Friday 25th November.
Please also note change of date for the January start-up meeting, which will now take place on Tuesday 10th January.
Best wishes,
Siobhán Burke
Introduction
Jisc and HESA are collaborating to take Business Intelligence to as wide an audience in Higher Education as possible (http://www.business-intelligence.ac.uk).
The production service,
Heidi-Plus
(https://business-intelligence.ac.uk/heidi-plus/) delivers data-derived
insights as interactive dashboards to a very large audience. Jisc has developed an approach to refresh the content through our community led dashboard creation model
Heidi-Lab (https://business-intelligence.ac.uk/heidi-lab/).
We are offering a unique opportunity for business intelligence experts together with those who have data analysis and visualisation experience to join
us in an exciting initiative, Heidi-Lab
(https://business-intelligence.ac.uk/heidi-lab/). The effort required is just 0.2 FTE over 3 months. For that
you’ll get a fantastic professional development experience as we create new content through:
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Accessing a wider range of datasets than is currently possible, for experimentation purposes, safely and affordably
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Identifying currently unknown trends and insights to provide an evidence base for sound business decisions
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Innovating through collaborative working, for example across institutional functions
Are you interested in joining one of our teams? Here are a few reasons why we think you should....
For your organisation:
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Saves effort
Gain access to insights you may not have had in-house capacity or capability to realise alone
Remove some of the resource-heavy duplication of effort
Previous participants have reported potentially significant time savings
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Saves money
Gain access to dashboards which will be chargeable to non-participating organisations
Procurement, software licences and service delivery are all taken care of
A wide range of efficiencies and improved effectiveness due to the insights themselves
Highly skilled staff through 12 days of professional development
Gain access to an extensive range of datasets, many of which are unavailable or prohibitively expensive
For participants:
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Gain experience of practices outside of your organisation, by joining a cross-institutional team
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Get practical experience of using Agile development
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Develop new skills through working with the Heidi-Lab toolset (based on Tableau and Alteryx)
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Apply the new knowledge, expertise and insights to benefit you and your organisation
How
do I apply?
Application is via a simple
online form (http://bit.ly/jisc_bi_team_application)
and should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. We will endeavour to match applicants to teams in their areas of interest indicated on the form that they are keen to explore. The process is open until 18/11/2016. We will inform successful applicants by
02/12/2016.
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What
commitment is
expected?
Building on three successful cohorts, we intend to run the fourth cycle of development teams over the 3 months January – April 2017. Cycle 5 will run April to July 2017. Our Agile development model expects as little as 15 days
(roughly 0.2 FTE) over each 3 month cycle for team members as outlined in the table below.
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Activity |
Timing |
Method |
Duration |
Effort / cycle |
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Webinar and Startup meeting |
Week 1
(9 and 10 Jan) |
Webinar,
face to face |
1 day |
1 day |
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Sprint planning |
Week 2
(w/c 16 Jan) |
Face to face |
1 day |
1 day |
|
Remote team development time |
Weeks 3, 4, 5
(w/c 23 Jan to w/c 6 Feb) |
Remote |
1 day
(more welcome) |
3 days |
|
Sprint planning |
Week 6
(w/c 13 Feb) |
Face to face |
1 day |
1 day |
|
Remote team development time |
Week 7, 8
(w/c 20 Feb to w/c 27 Feb) |
Remote |
1 day
(more welcome) |
2 days |
|
Sprint planning |
Week 9 (w/c 6 Mar) |
Face to face |
1 day |
1 day |
|
Remote team development time |
Week 10, 11, 12
(w/c 13 Mar to w/c 27 Mar) |
Remote |
1 day
(more welcome) |
3 days |
|
All hands meeting |
Week 13 (6 Apr) |
Face to face |
1 day |
1 day |
There is no charge to take part, however participants are expected to cover their own travel and subsistence costs when attending face to face project meetings.
In
addition to
Team members
we are
also seeking
team leaders.
These
will be
heads, assistant heads or similarly senior roles
charged with
steering each
team toward
creating widely
applicable outputs.
We anticipate the effort to average out at just 7 days for an entire (3 month) development cycle.
How
will Jisc
and HESA support this?
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Technical and legal framework, including Data Protection Act training
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Project management, technical and data consultancy to each team
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Access to data for experimentation purposes
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All software
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Siobhán Burke |
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T 0161 413 7522 6th Floor, Churchgate House, 56 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 6EU |
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