Lessons learned from technology commissioning. Technology
commissioning is a quality-oriented process for achieving,
verifying and documenting that the performance of educational
technology systems and assemblies meets specifications. In any
project, contractors and various subs each do their jobs, but
the results may not be satisfactory. It can take months to
remedy problems. A commissioning agent tests systems to ensure
that everything works as designed. Interest in technology
systems commissioning is growing. It offers many obvious
benefits, but it requires an investment of time and money, which
can become significant depending on the complexity of the
systems involved. At the heart of commissioning, functional
performance testing is the most critical and time-consuming
step. This is the point at which all components and subsystems
are tested together to verify that the overall facility meets
design objectives from a systems perspective. This step takes
time because it generally requires coordinated partic