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San Diego Unified School District Overview
Second largest district in California
226 educational facilities with 14,438 employees
132,000 students - pre-school thru K-12
Very diverse student population representing 15 ethnic
groups and more than 60 languages and dialects
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San Diego Unified School District Overview
14.9M square feet of buildings
Average building age is 43 years:
• 118 elementary and K-8 schools
• 24 middle schools
• 26 high schools
• 14 atypical schools
• 44 charter schools
$1B annual operating budget
• State budget cuts forced delay of many critical repairs
• Repairs and new schools are funded thru capital bond
measures
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Partners Consulting
Serves a wide range of clients in the
construction management and project planning
domains including: schools districts, general
contractors, municipalities, mining, and energy.
Has been an industry leader in providing
integration solutions since 2001.
Has a dedicated team of subject matter experts
excited to custom tailor integrations to solve
your unique business needs.
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San Diego Unified Background
Two Capital Bond Measures
• Proposition S 2.1B passed in 2008 about 25%
completed
• Proposition Z $2.8B passed in 2012 – will receive first
bond sales of $518M in May
Over 500 projects
Project Delivery is primarily Design – Bid -
Build (DBB)
Secondary delivery is Indefinite Quantity
Indefinite Delivery (IDIQ)
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Review of Software Systems
San Diego Unified Facilities Planning and
Construction is a project-driven organization
Project Success is measured by:
• Cost
• Schedule
• Quality
PeopleSoft
Ensures
proper
financial
controls
P6
Tracks
Project
Schedules
PCM
Manages
Contracts
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Oracle PeopleSoft (PSFT)
Project Costing Module
• Budgets
• Encumbrances
• Funding by line item
• SACS Compliance
Human Resources
Payroll
Benefits
Position Allocations
Manage Accounting
functions:
General Ledger
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Asset Management
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Primavera Project Management (P6)
• Activities are cost and resource-
loaded from PCM
• Provides Earned Value Reporting
• Measures Schedule Performance
• Manages Resources for staffing
• Forecasts cash flow over the life of
the program and projects
• Provides tools to forecast when
new Bond sales are needed to
prevent fund balances from being
exceeded
P6 provides
the ability
for the
owner to
properly
manage
multi-billion
dollar
Capital
Project
Programs.
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Business Processes
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Centric
Level 1: Project ID
Based upon
school
district
facilities
Department
ID and
number of
projects at
school site.
Level 2: Subproject
Follows the
Project ID:
0-9 / A-Z
Level 3: Phase
Determined by Project Phase
All three software systems (P6, PCM and PSFT) use this
WBS structure
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Business Processes
System Links
Work Breakdown Structure allows all three systems to
logically track schedule activities, budgets, estimates and
committed costs.
Between P6, PCM and PSFT Project Costing Module the
key is the WBS and the “Referring Schedule Activity” to cost-
load activities
• In P6, each schedule activity resides in its distinct WBS path (Task / Activity
ID / activity name is irrelevant).
• In PCM, the corresponding “Referring Schedule Activity” WBS is placed in
the document schedule activity tab / line item for the budget contract, the
estimate and committed contract.
• In PSFT Project Costing Module the Project ID, subproject and the WBS
activity are placed in the corresponding project.
So for Adams ES Playground equipment all three systems
recognize that all costs associated with design will be placed
into activity 90030001.1.D
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Business Processes
Project Creation
Projects are created in P6
with project type
templates
• New school construction
• Technology and Infrastructure
• Heating Ventilation and Air
Conditioning
• Renovation projects
Projects are then created
manually in PCM.
Budget and Estimate
imported in PCM
• The Cost Schedule Engineer
then imports the project contract
budget and estimates into the
PCM project. Import includes:
• Cost codes
• WBS referring activity ID
• Cost Amounts
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Business Processes
Cost-Loading
P6 schedules are
Cost-Loaded
• WBS entries match PCM
documents
• Cost Accounts, Budgets,
Cost at Completion, and
Actuals are managed on
the Resource
Assignments
Payments Are Made
• Each WBS line activity
has its resources updated
to the correct cost
• account with actual costs
to date
PCM Documents
Created and Modified
• Each WBS line activity
has its resources updated
to the revised amount:
• Budget revisions
• Contract change order
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Challenge
To Meet expectations of excellence from previous capital
bond programs
Proposition S and Proposition Z realities
• Value of programs = $4.9B
• Ever-changing revenue stream
• Increased number of projects
• Ever-changing project execution planning
• Increased Level of reporting
• Intense scrutiny from community
• Pressure to pay vendors more quickly
• Minimize PMO costs
• Staffing limitations – do more with less
• Strains on personnel do to double-entry
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Partners Methodology
During onsite workshops, we worked
closely with Joel and other key
stakeholders to identify requirements.
Drawing from over a decade of
experience we were able to identify
key needs and goals.
After the needs had been identify
Partners proposed a phased approach
to help the district realize its goals.
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Dimension Framework
• Sitting on top of a
thoroughly tested set of
base libraries Dimension
gets solutions done
faster.
Rapid
Development
• Consists of core libraries
and a set of connectors
that allow for the
communication to all of
your systems.
System Wide
Integration
• Provides transparency
into systems and
integration components.
• Allows for auditing and
exception notifications.
Web
Integration
Manager
(WebIM)
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Phase III – Looking Forward
Ensure data integrity between systems
• Reconcile costs and transactions from PeopleSoft to Primavera
applications
• Not all transactions originate in PCM
• Challenge: Retrieve PeopleSoft transactions and then populate
PCM with data into the correct projects / WBS
Explore moving to Primavera Unifier
• Migrate data from PCM
• Maintain WBS system protocol
• Maintain current P6 scheduling tool
• Migrate current paper-based business processes to electronic
processing
• Add ability to track project bond scope within the project
• Ability to fund projects at a more granular line-item level (i.e. design
now, construction later)
• Ability to track Facilities Condition Index data to the building level
• Ability to use Uniformat tracking for repairs and capital
improvement