very very urgent: FITS Your Experiences

[russdev]

Have you implemented or started to implement FITS and love to talk about your experiences then we may have great opportunity for you please email me [email protected] for more details.

 

Sorry cannot talk about it much more on forum.

 

Russell

[beeswax]

FITS Your Experiences.

 

Hmm, not as catchy as Suit You, Sir.

[markcuk]

hi

 

we are supposed to be trying to implement FITS here but to be honest our LEA trafford havent even bothered to inform the headteachers of the scheme so we dont get much backing of them trying to implement it.

 

and to be honest its just a pen pushing pile of dung!!!!! some of the things are ok you know get a helpdesk up and running try and stop staff asking you on the corridor etc but everyone works different and has there own ideas on how support should work etc.

 

 

mark

[russdev]

*bump*

[GrumbleDook]

Are their any members from Sheffield or Coventry here that would be willing to let Russ know about their experiences?

[PEO]

I would not bother mentioning it to my NM and ICT coordinator. My advice or opinion is never appreciated and ignored. But its something i have looked ot for a wee while and I would implement it.

[bossman]

I have filled in the first part and have got feedback from that but honestly speaking i havn't had the time recently.

 

I will be spending more time on this as my role within the school is changing to that of SLICT (strategic leader of ICT) which will be totally new to me but i like a challenge and Webman will then move into my role as NM.

[Guest richard]

Tried to implement it at my old school and came up against so much apathy that I gave up as it wasn't worth the hassle.

[6Foot2]

I can't remember when I looked at this originally [a long time ago: months and months] It went nowhere. Now abandoned.

[GrumbleDook]

I have filled in the first part and have got feedback from that but honestly speaking i havn't had the time recently.

 

I will be spending more time on this as my role within the school is changing to that of SLICT (strategic leader of ICT) which will be totally new to me but i like a challenge and Webman will then move into my role as NM.

 

Ooohhh ... another turns to the dark side of Manglement!

[mortstar]

Are their any members from Sheffield or Coventry here that would be willing to let Russ know about their experiences?

 

Why Coventry specifically?

[russdev]

No anywhere in the UK

 

Russ

[GrumbleDook]

Are their any members from Sheffield or Coventry here that would be willing to let Russ know about their experiences?

 

Why Coventry specifically?

 

Because Coventry and Sheffield both had projects to deliver and develop FITS in schools ... I was hoping to prod a few members involved in that to respond.

 

As Russ has said ... anywhere in the UK.

[Sylv3r]

I have filled in the first part and have got feedback from that but honestly speaking i havn't had the time recently.

 

I will be spending more time on this as my role within the school is changing to that of SLICT (strategic leader of ICT) which will be totally new to me but i like a challenge and Webman will then move into my role as NM.

 

Congratulations Bossman, I am being pulled that way here also working more with strategic ICT including e-Learning, but will still be holding on my Network Manager responsibilties - will be interested to see how it works.

[Oops_my_bad]

hi

 

we are supposed to be trying to implement FITS here but to be honest our LEA trafford havent even bothered to inform the headteachers of the scheme so we dont get much backing of them trying to implement it.

 

and to be honest its just a pen pushing pile of dung!!!!! some of the things are ok you know get a helpdesk up and running try and stop staff asking you on the corridor etc but everyone works different and has there own ideas on how support should work etc.

 

 

mark

 

Tend to disagree a little bit - trafford were actually quite good and pushed this (certainly in our school) did you not attend all the workshops? They were quite eye-opening 8O It was received very well by SMT here and had no problems convincing them afterall it's just best practice.

[budgester]

I started using fits a couple of years ago, it works really well here.

 

You have to remember that it's a framework not a 'you must do this'.

 

So the two main tools I use to track fits are the secondary_fits_assement spreadsheet and the expediture spreadsheet.

 

I use IRM, for helpdesk, inventory, and software tracking, we have one of the admin people in the student office to take job requests for us, I also have a wall mounted LCD in the ICT office that shows High priority jobs, just need to add a siren to it.

 

Nothing should get done without a request going through this system, no matter how urgent, even if I have to add a job onto the system myself.

 

We have all of our software lableled with an inventoty number that corresponds to the record on the invetory system, this make software really easy to check, and has saved hours of time.

 

The expenditure spreadsheet is setup to mirror our budget codes that the bursar gives us, then we track our own purchase orders, against our budget and I know instantly how many pennies I have left, this again has saved my butt on occasion e.g. when finance have allocated a £5000 invoice twice against one of my budgets, I can quickly point it out.

 

And if you are running a halfway decent support operation you are probably doing at least 50% of fits already anyway, then you can say to manglement during your next appraisal session look this is what I am doing, then pick some easy targets of the fits framework and make it an easy reachable target for next year, (get it raise linked if you can as well :-)

 

It works for us, as a framework.

 

Regards

 

Budgester

[MkII]

Our leadership team are positively hostile to it. Then again they are power mad dictators! (aren't all managers! *ducks*))