[1112] in I/T Delivery
Windows 2000 Domains & Servers: March 2003 Delivery Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kerem B Limon)
Fri Apr 4 17:12:36 2003
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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 17:08:11 -0500
To: IS Delivery Process <delivery@mit.edu>
From: Kerem B Limon <kerem.limon@MIT.EDU>
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Windows Delivery advisory council <windows-delivery-advisory@mit.edu>
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Project Name: Windows 2000 Domains, Workgroups, and Servers Delivery Project
Project Leader: Kerem B. Limon
Report Date: April 4, 2003 (for March 2003)
Project Web site URL: http://web.mit.edu/windows-delivery/
Accomplishments in March:
- The DART process design is finalized. Delivery Team is ready to move into
internal pilots, beginning next week (04/09 -).
- Completed first draft of white-paper for departments who wish to migrate
to or deploy independent Active Directory domains; second version is in
revision.
- Microsoft & Dell exploratory design effort for the PLC and Facilities is
ready to go; the Statement of Work was finalized and signed off on by Jim
Bruce.
- Delivery Team is ready to conduct hands-on testing of sample win.mit.edu
and independent domain implementations with the Delivery Team, used to
verify existing documentation/training and develop new ones in detail. This
is set to begin next week as well.
- Sent out End-of-March community announcement detailing progress so far on
running and completed pilots, the Windows vision statement, upcoming DART
announcement (slated for 04/09).
- Completed implementation project plan (available upon request) and set
milestones for the next three months (see below).
- Met with additional departments to discuss their plans, including Physics
(Junior Lab) and DUSP most recently.
Goals for April:
- Officially announce DART (04/09).
- Finalize and draft, then upload documentation supporting DART process to
Web site.
- Revise independent domain instructions/information white-paper.
- Conduct internal DART pilots with CAO, Facilities, NRL, OSP, PLC to
verify DART process and develop standard templates based on these DLCs.
- Conduct internal testing to revise existing or develop missing
documentation for win.mit.edu and independent domain pointers.
- Commence Microsoft & Dell design work for PLC and Facilities.
- Finalize a DLC customer database for DART use.
- Produce first draft of Support plan.
Next Community Milestone:
- Announcement of the finalized (initial) Design Assistance & Review Team
(DART) (04/09).
- End-of-April community announcement (04/30).
Issues:
- We need to develop a mechanism to handle the decision point for who will
be in the next round of pilots, to prevent overcommitting shared resources.
Team leader will be working with the sponsors using an aggregate of DLC
databases the Delivery Team has gathered to identify the next candidates
and resources to assist them until July.
- Occasionally when trying to implement some of the early processes, we
seem to be drifting back to discussing already made and ratified design
decisions all the way back to Discovery. There hasn't been a detrimental
impact from these few cases, but we need to be careful.
Key Learnings:
- Now that planning is largely over, we are in the implementation phase and
beginning to delivery some tangible products and it feels good.
- The next 3 months are going to be the busiest, with many parallel
components of the project being delivered.
Team Dynamics:
- Remains strong; again, there are fewer occasional (expected) discussions
that tend to digress from the agenda, and we're now much more experienced
as the Delivery Team in controlling the focus in our meetings or those that
we participate in.
Additional Comments:
None.
