[156] in I/T Delivery
REVISED: 24 April 1998 Delivery Team Leaders Meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Apr 24 12:01:21 1998
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 12:01:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: delivery@MIT.EDU
Next meeting 29 May 1998
10:00-12:00 N42-286
NOTE: Just as the meeting was breaking up, we noticed conflicts with an
earlier date of 22 May, so it's pushed to the 4th Friday -- May 29.
Allison Dolan will join us.
Agenda:
1. (20 minutes) Status/Announcements
* Hiring status
* Project DB
* ITLT update
* Updated list of Delivery Goals
2. (20 minutes) Project Management Institute Membership
3. (10 minutes) Monthly Reports due 4/29
4. (60 minutes) Normal + Structured Roundtable
up to 5 minutes on whatever you deem relevant, but also
for each project of yours
* Milestones achieved or coming into focus
* Adjustments you want to make
* Resource Needs
Hiring Status
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Detail:
* Project Management Institute Membership
Brenda told us about the Project Management Institute -- an association
for practioners if project management.
We're contemplating getting MIT a corporate membership.
She handed out an overview handout, a membership packet, and several PMI
publications.
More information is available at http://www.pmi.org
Joining gives us discounted access to PMI resources such as
Publications, Meetings, Chapter and Special Interest Group membership,
Conferences, and the PMI Accreditation process.
Anyone interested in being one of the folks officially listed as MIT
members, contact Bob (rferrara) or Brenda (brendakg).
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Status/Announcements
Hiring:
The biggest need we have at this moment is filling slots in Project Pismere.
Bill and Mike are gathering their strength for the push to fill their
last open slot.
Keep your eyes open for folks to recommend to our employment.
The issues of compensation that we have been raising are showing
encouraging signs of project.
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* Project Database
We finally fixed the corrupted item in the project database that was
preventing Dennis Barron from updating a project of his.
We also identified what was filling up the root filesystem and causing outages.
Project Database work of any sort is pretty much on hiatus because Miki
is critical path for the push for the Athena release roll-out.
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* ITLT Update:
Allison Dolan is starting to take notes and publicise them, and Bob
things that those will be a better source of information than ad-hoc
updates in the meetings. So maybe ITLT Update will fade out of the
Delivery Team Leaders meeting.
ITLT Topics:
Web based Teaching and Learning environments
Business model.
Some discussion on Software Licensing
Roger Roach talked about an SAP Printing Discovery Project
Some discussion of the Hot Technology Survey
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* Monthly Reports:
OOPS! They're not Monthly. Sorry! Bob didn't mean to scare everybody.
They're quarterly reports that are due.
Bob will take anything and everything you care to supply.
Next one is Due 5/1, but Bob is away just before then, so please try to
get them in a little early.
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* Round Table
wade:
2 parallel tracks are going with help tools: Service, making
incremental improvements, and Delivery: putting out for bids to
migrate away from Scopus towards a power builder-based
implementation. Wanting to try and get a very well done
specification for a fixed price bid that is held to.
ADDSTRAT is on track for a July release.
Office and Corporate Relations Discovery project: get rid of legacy
system that did not meet needs, along with the shadow systems that
sprung up. Plan to recommend next steps the last week of June.
Jana:
working Telecom Issues.
TQF testing is going on. Works fine under system 8. Y2K:
Continuing publicity.
Working on a new web page, and a Tech Talk article. The current web
page is http://mitvma.mit.edu/mity2k/ The update will happen
sometime near the end of april.
Mary Weisse:
Data Warehouse: Financial Master and OSP data are in the warehouse.
The schedule has slipped for a couple departmental efforts.
Purchasing data feed is ahead of schedule. look at
http://web.mit.edu/warehouse
Parking system is being abandoned by the company that developed it.
It's OS/2 and not Y2K compliant. We're looking at other companies
to replace it.
Rocklyn: SAP Web: We can now create requisitions on the web. Focusing
on connection with NECX. Using the OBI standard. Expect interface
piece to be done ~June 15.
Ken Higgins: pass
Craig Counterman: Web crossing: Proceeding. We'll be going public at
the beginning of June, primarily for the Alumni. Academic and CWIS use
should be in full production in mid August.
Tereasa Reagan: OSP: The last 4 weeks there have been lots of resource
issues -- people coming and going. Electronic proposal is currently
being integrated. Target date is mid July. Still unable to pilot the
application. The required driver is not available for the Mac. (A
promise made to us 18 months ago was not kept.) This issue is going to
be picked up in a serious way in May. The server has been requisitoned.
The existing application has, thankfully, remained quite stable. Coeus
presents some interesting Y2K issues: To certify it as compliant
requireds specific versions of a wide collection of third party
components, including the operating system that Coeus runs under.
Lorraine: ECAT-II is making steady progress. Timetable has slipped.
SAP configuration issues and resource contention issues were some of the
cause. Hope to have a pilot roll-out in July. Also working to form
other business partnerships for different sorts of ECAT. The MIT
publishing Services bureau is involved in one such. Unlike the earlier
jjv: Application developent is moving forward. NT Zephyr is moving
forward. Hope to have something in Beta soon. Hiring continues to be a
challenge.
wdc:
The Alpha release for the new Athena release has slipped a bit. We
think this will mean that equipment put-in will slip to July 15
instead of July 1.
As Jonathon and Mike Whitson evaluate disk arrays for AFS servers,
Bill is watching to buy a similar configuation for a new library
server with end of year money.
The Athena Renewal continues to be exciting and stressful in a
different way than last year. We've learned that we really are at
the mercy of vendors for what kind of form-factor Athena
workstations come in. We're dealing with a snag with the PROMs in
the Sun hardware we wanted to buy. Sun seems to be on track with
remedying this.
Bob Ferrara:
NEW-ABS team: The Administrative Business Services Team is working
on redesigning. They're in the information gathering phase right
now.
Carol Van Aken broke her hip. She is a key SAP person, so there is
some work to compensate.
SAP Rollout: Went public with the plan. THIS is the year of SAP roll-out.
Went to the kickoff of new MIT Technology Review. Focus of the new
publication is Innovation.
