[197] in I/T Delivery
9/11/1998 Delivery Team Leader's Meeting Minutes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Sep 11 12:05:17 1998
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:05:27 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: delivery@MIT.EDU
Delivery Team Leader's Meeting
11 September 1998
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Next Meeting: 9 October 1998 at 10:00 in N42-286
Go to Java Day on 25 September!
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Agenda:
1. (20 minutes) Status/Announcements
* Hiring status
* Project DB update + training
* ITLT update, including meeting practices
* Project Mgmt.Institute and local SIG news
* Updating Delivery Process Map for project "decommisioning" and
package software acquisition
2. (30 Minutes) Next development environment
* New project starting with Jonathan Ives
* Implications for Longer Term Support
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3. (25 minutes) Updates on newer Discovery/Delivery Projects
* The 3 faces of Pismire
* Budget - BEERS replacement
* Preferred Partners
* Signature Authorization Conversion
4. (30 minutes) Roundtable
up to 3 minutes on whatever you deem relevant, but especially mention
items like
* Milestones achieved or coming into focus
* Adjustments you want to make
* Resource Needs
5. Topics for next meeting, which will likely be New Delivery Goals
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1. Status/Announcements:
ITLT Update:
Mention of work with Hot Technology Survey.
5 year Plan: A core team to work on the 5 yr plan has been picked:
Mike Barker, Brenda Gillingham, and Jeff Pankin.
The ITLT round tables seem to work better than the Delivery Team Leaders
do. We're gonna try soliciting round table items at the beginning
of the meetings, and then doing round table at the end with those items.
Project Management Institute:
We're in! People are receiving their membership packets.
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2. New Development Environment -- Jonathan Ives
Handed out a draft copy of the project charter.
Where to go with the reality of limited support for Power Builder?
Java is taking off.
What is impact of these two observed realities?
Jonathon is looking for feedback:
additional impacts.
We discussed the possible values of having a recommended Java development
environment.
Other points:
With Mac's selling again, the Mac support may improve soon.
Even so, Java is a good technology to evaluate.
Having a sense of requirements and criteria is A GOOD THING.
Just waiting will be like asking to be hit by a train.
An ongoing sense of the current Integrated Development Environment
offerings would also be a good thing.
Codifying a 'rolling list of evaluated products' might be good.
Important: Java is NOT just for web applets.
server apps -- servlets (like a CGI script)
traditional applications written in Java.
Invite people outside of IS to be on the team.
Let's warn Power Builder community as soon as possible that new
things are coming.
Communicate with other Educational Institutions for best practices
here as well:
Common Solutions Group
etc.
Liaison to people working on NEW projects might help.
Projects that are candidates for involvement here:
fewer than expected in the project db -- mostly because we're
trying to BUY rather than build.
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4. Roundtable
ReEngineering: Study beginning on the Formation of Project Teams.
Charter: get best practices on how project teams are formed.
Dani Aivazian is a principal in this effort.
She's going to begin interviewing many people on their team experiences.
Telecomm feed to SAP
Deadline was originally October. Feed was ready in July.
Missing a validation process (lack of Business Rules from CAO.)
Depending on those rules, deadline may or may not to be met.
But Dennis wants to change the nature of the feed.
December is drop dead deadline. So there is some interesting play here.
Student Life and Learning
Greg passed out the Task Force report. Says the report is worth reading.
Need to read between the lines to get role of IT from the recommendations.
W91
Nothing to report. Still waiting to hold the required discussions.
C++
for some time the Gnu folks have done little maintenance on gcc and g++
The problem was that fixing things would CHANGE old things.
So a new initiative, called EGCS (pronounced 'eggs') is exploring the work
to improve things. Some beta compilers are beginning to come out now.
IMPORTANT: the new compilers are going to be DIFFERENT from what we're
used to.
Java Day
September 25 at the Cambridge Center Mariott.
All day.
MIT resources for SAP support
Project transitioning off Contractors who deliver to MIT personnel to
service: SAP Physical Plant Accounting Project
Need folks who know about accounting to do business rules and configs.
(Business Analyst sort of person.)
The SAP support comes from many different organizations, and that will
change, but this effort cannot wait for that reorganization.
ID db status
Version 2 replacing 'the people database'
V2 is now in production.
There are facilities for old apps to use the new db.
Digital Library Status
Most of the CSTR collection has been reprocessed and is online at
ncstrl.mit.edu/
Online Thesis legacy collection from Document services (prototype)
is online at theses.mit.edu/
Meeting soon to codify pilot of Electronic Submission of Theses.
Athena Status
Athena 8.2 up and happy on Sun and SGI
SGI seems quiet. We're peeking at Irix 6.5.
Guess what? It's DIFFERENT!
SGI Install work: sent a white paper to them.
Sun Install work: trying to collaborate, delayed by NFS crisis.
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5. Topics for next meeting, which will likely be New Delivery Goals
Submit topics to rferrara or ganderso
Bob wants to revisit Delivery Goals.
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Pruned from Agenda:
3. Updates on newer Discovery/Delivery Projects
The 3 faces of Pismire
Budget - BEERS replacement
Preferred Partners
Signature Authorization Conversion
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