[7] in I/T Delivery
Delivery Meeting Minutes 10/25/96
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert V. Ferrara)
Mon Dec 30 08:47:06 1996
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 08:50:08 -0500
To: delivery-mtg@menelaus.mit.edu
From: rferrara@MIT.EDU (Robert V. Ferrara)
>Date: Fri, 25 Oct 96 13:55:13 EDT
>From: wdc@MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey On the Road)
>To: delivery@MIT.EDU, saurons@MIT.EDU
>Subject: Delivery Meeting 10/25/96
>
>Next meeting will be Friday November 8 at 10:00 AM in
>E19-741.
>
>* SAP Support Organization:
>
>A very full Org chart for the SAP Support Organiation was handed out.
>The roles are codified and clarified. There is hope that contingencies
>and identified problems will be more easily addressed and corrected by
>orgnizing the project in this way.
>
>* Goals for 5 Year Plan
>
>Last week we did brainstorming.
>Bob assembled the brainstorming into something a little more organized
>and used it to help in the Delivery side work at the 5 year plan ITLT
>offsite.
>
>We spent some time reviewing Bob's assemblage. Issues were raised for
>thinking about and word-smithing offline.
>
>* Pubs assistance to Delivery projects
>
>Sharon Belville has been authoried to spend 20% of her work week in E40.
>The schedule has not been worked out, but a place for her to sit is
>getting set up. She will help us with editorial work in documents and
>mentor us in knowing the right things to do. IE The developers will get
>a better understanding of what they need to do as part of the work of
>development so that the right thing happens with documentation. There
>are important documenting tasks that ARE the responsibility of the
>developer.
>
>We'd like to give serious consideraton to doing a Delivery web page set
>akin to the one for Discovery.
>
>* Admissions Discovery Effort
>
>The discovery report is essentially done, and the project is moving into
>the presentation/committment phase. This has been a pretty difficult
>transition . Identification of sponsors and support in the face of heavy
>loading on the admissions office has been tricky.
>
>Looking at the issue of assigning temporary IDs to potential MIT
>applicants so that they can access MIT information has been an
>interesting educational exercise.
>
>* Roundtable
>
>Rocklyn: A team to work on SAP access via The Web is formed. The SAP
>Web product is scheduled to only EVER run on an NT server. The One Wave
>product out of the box does not fit our environment as well as we had
>hoped: The server is on NT and the HP-UX port is delayed. Their client
>runs only on Windows. The team is investigating writing cgi scriptsto
>called SAP APIs for Web access. But we don't know if we'd succeed in a
>reasonably quick timeframe. The team is being open minded for other
>alternatives as they become visible.
>
>Note: We need to be attentive to who the customer for Web access is, and
>what the timeframe for best serving those customers is.
>Requisition-only access may not be viable. A broader access solution
>via the web may be more appropriate. Which tilts the balance further
>away from One Wave and towards the SAP Web product.
>
>Jana: TQF project: Migration to PowerBuilder 5 is done. Conversion to
>Mac begins Monday. Version tracking and control is an issue.
>
>Bob: Could people please sanity check the ManMonth estimates in the
>Delivery Projects spreadsheet.
>
>Bill: ABS has nearly completed the group review of the ABS master.
>We'll soon be handing the Master Spec and code to Jeff Schller for
>review. The Projects database has a draft of the requirements written.
>People who helped set the requirement should have been notified of this.
>
>Naomi: Representing QuickStation project which is now moving into the
>delivery phase. Hoping for something to be deployed by the end of IAP.
>
>MBarker: SGI has told us about their new machine the "O^2". Cheaper
>and is very different from what we have seen. An instance of the
>hardware has been promised.
>
>We also have a list of services to port from DECStations.
>
>Wade: Scopus: A demo was held this week in the Visitor Center. Release
>1 roll out is pretty much through acceptance testing. Transitioning to
>Release 2 information gathering (to define what will be in release 2)
>and then a work breakdown will be produced.
>
>Need to work on charter for Personnel change order system (for things
>like address and phone numbers, etc.)
>
>Tereasa: SAP: Reality has set in on the meaning of cutover. People are
>still assessing the issues in the changeover. July cutover for release
>2 is important to the stress level of folks doing both systems in
>parallel.
>
>Regina: EPS seems to be requiring more development work than planned
>for. Collaboration with the Integration team on the Roles database went
>very well. The other enabling technology dependencies have not gone at
>all well. Again, lots of dependencies have turned into the requirement
>that the EPS people do the work instead.
>
>Larry: Add-Strat project is on track.
>
>Tim: The writing requirement project is well in hand. The biggest risk
>is still the unknowns relating to the student services reengineering
>stuff.
>
>Paul: Hired a new UROP to work on installers. He is maiking good
>progress. Kerberos workshop coming to MIT Nov 13 and 14. Notification
>should be coming out. Qulacom has released Eudora 3.0. We've not yet
>received the disks yet. Initially the Qualcom release will be
>distributed for expiring betas. A month or so later, the MIt version
>will probably come out.
>
>Greg: ITLT report: As everybody knows, ITLT had an off site to work on
>the 5 year plan. Another is scheduled for Nov 4.
>
>People should put together their list of accomplishment for the past
>year and goals for the coming year. Threats and opportunities, etc.
>
