BYU-Idaho Application Development Policy

Applications Developed by Departments External to Information Technology

(Updated 10/2003)

• All application development project requests, including those applications to be developed by departments, must be submitted to CTC for approval. These requests should be described on an IT Project Request form with appropriate approvals.

• Applications will be developed and deployed on servers separate from the university’s production systems.
• For security and management reasons these servers and their applications will only be available on campus.
• IT will provide administrative management and maintenance on these servers.
• The sponsoring organization will be responsible to provide maintenance and support on the application.

• Requests for applications to be maintained by the university will require separate CTC approval. It is important to note that these projects will likely require a complete redesign and rewrite in order to be consistent with other university applications. As such, there should be no expectation that these requests will automatically be approved.

• All applications developed using campus resources become the property of the university (not the sponsoring department or individual developer). All students hired to develop applications are expected to sign a document that explains their obligations and limitations.

• Development of applications requiring access to campus master databases (defined as any data supervised by a data steward and managed by IT such as student, personnel, pictures, directories, or financial records), will be limited to the IT applications development department to safeguard the integrity of the data and ensure compatibility with existing applications.

• Applications should be developed using the BYU Idaho standard computer languages and development tools.
• The cost of these tools is the responsibility of the developing organization.
• It is recommended that these applications be developed using IT application development standards.
• Implementation of applications developed using non standard languages and tools may be delayed or rejected because the server environment cannot support them.
• To add servers that will support non standard languages and tools will require a budget cycle and CTC approval.

• All applications are expected to adhere to the campus style guide and other applicable web standards.

• Any exceptions to this policy will require CTC and President’s Council approval.