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11/4 Delivery Council Notes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Ferrara)
Mon Nov 4 18:41:13 2002
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From: Robert Ferrara <rferrara@MIT.EDU> (by way of "Jagruti S. Patel" <jag@mit.edu>)
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Hello,
Here are the Delivery Council notes for 11/4 at 1PM in W92-199, thanks to
Lorraine.
Roundtable (20 min)
- IT-partners debrief
- Promo/equity for Jan 1st -- starting to build list of candidates for
promotion/equity increase. Talk to Bob or Mark to add names to the list.
- W2K server team plans -- team composition is just about set.
- 10/31 ITLT and Strategic/Business Review meeting -- Curry's overall
directive is to cut 3%-7% in each area in FY04. Within about two weeks,
each process director must compile a list of possible areas to cut. Final
draft of FY04 budget is due December 10. Due to Curry on December 16-17.
DC will discuss this at next meeting, Tuesday, 11/19. (Note: this is due at
5PM on 11/19 - Bob)
- Quarterly Report -- final updates to Bob by this Friday. (Delivery
monthly reports also due on Friday.)
- Personnel changes -- Larry Stone moving to ISST in Service. Kelly Yu
likely moving to TNS. No word yet on new hires.
- Roundtable
Tom T. -- success in building 37. Number of machines and users are way up.
Tom G. -- EAST took over the Events Calendar at the end of October.
Mark -- new vacation and bereavement policy. Will send out email on
some of the fine points.
EAST Business Plan (30 minutes) - Tom G.
Desired outcome: Critique EAST's evolving plan, identify targets of
opportunity
See Tom's mail from 11/1 for draft of model.
Issues/Questions discussed:
1. How to deal with documentation? Who does it? EAST or TPS or
subcontractor? If EAST, the team would need to gain this expertise and most
likely staff. This isn't necessarily wise. Depending on who does the
work, we need to make sure revenue is being distributed accurately to the
group(s) doing the work? Needs further conversation with Jeanne Cavanaugh.
2. Measuring Small, Medium, Large -- another vector to consider is the
range of environments supported, complexity of platforms supported. Over
time, complexity increases. Supporting old environments add to complexity.
Maybe re-phrase as Low, Medium, High?
3. Tom T. -- we need to build in the negotiation factor.
4. What about database support? Database Services does not provide bug
detection, monitoring, performance tuning, etc. What should be EAST's role
in offering/brokering these services?
5. Bob would like additional scenarios, comparing present suite of apps.
with a future state.
Next steps:
- Tom G. will review with the EAST team
- Circulate to ITLT. Target: about a month and a half. Worth talking to
Theresa, Susan, and Vijay/Phil Long in advance.
Follow-up: Delivery Council Role Discussion (25 min) - MCS
Desired outcome:
* Review what's coming into Delivery (Calendaring?, Listserv-> Mailman, W2K)
* Focused Information Sharing
* Budgeting in a more shared manner
We did not have time for this agenda item.
Next Meeting: TUESDAY, November 19 at 1pm.
