Meet the IRP Student Team - Technical Delivery

The Integrated Renewal Program – Student (IRP Student) refers to the renewal of the UBC Student Information System (SIS) that the University is undertaking. The renewed system will support UBC students in achieving their academic goals and create a better experience for all users through a new set of tools and new ways of working.   

IRP Student has eight core teams – Student Solution, Ecosystem Delivery, Transformation & Change Management, Security, Access, Data and Reporting, Technical Delivery, Solution Architecture, Quality Assurance, and Program Management Office. This series aims to explain each team, their objectives, and their role within the IRP Student program in terms you, our UBC community, will understand. 

Currently Workday covers 60% of the business processes, the other 40% are covered by Point and GAP solutions. The Technical Delivery team is responsible for the delivery of technical solutions. 

The Technical Delivery team, using the latest cloud-based technology, will design and build solutions alongside the functional and architecture teams. This includes several solutions around Workday Student like Reports as a Service RaaS, Boomerangs (data coming out and back into Workday), Point solutions (Like Learner Financial Systems), GAP Solutions that are being covered by Business Process Management Software BPMS, 100’s of Integrations and Common Services through MuleSoft via restful API’s. 

Our team is made up of Technical Project Managers, Business Systems Analysts, Programmer Analysts and Continuous Integration/Development Engineers. These teams of people are responsible for the planning, design, development, and maintenance of these technical systems/solutions. 

The University of British Columbia is an extraordinarily complex ecosystem of systems. Moving from the current state Student Information System to Workday Student requires many systems/solutions that need to integrate and retrofit into this new paradigm. The Technical Delivery team’s primary objective is to ensure that all systems/solutions are developed/reintegrated into Workday and to achieve the new business continuity for UBC’s business. To achieve this, we will be partnering with many IT/business stakeholders, other groups within the IRP program and external vendors, ensuring we successfully delivery this solution together. 

 - Garry Kupecz, Associate Director – Technical Delivery.  

For more information about IRP Student teams, read the other entries in this content series on the IRP Student website.   

*Reflecting on our experience so far in working with Workday and seeing how our design is shaping up, we realize that we have to embrace change and be confident in our ability to adapt. Workday Student, along with IRP Student’s functional requirements, are evolving quickly and this could mean that we may have to adapt our approach throughout the project timeline.