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Minutes of 10 December 1999 Project Team Leaders Meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Dec 10 12:12:28 1999
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:16:37 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: magellan@MIT.EDU, delivery@MIT.EDU, integration-ptl@MIT.EDU
To: magellan@mit.edu, delivery@mit.edu, integration-ptl@mit.edu
Project Team Leaders
10 Dec 1999
Next meeting is January 14th in E19-732
Meeting after is probably Feb 11 also in E19.
Agenda:
1. Round Table Items
2. Operational plan updates
3. Measures
4. Roundtable
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OPERATIONAL PLAN UPDATES
The contents of http://web.mit.edu/pm have been updated.
Check them out!
Tim handed out a print out of the pm pages related to the project
notebook and other project documents. Tim asked for discussion and
feedback.
Tim suggests that, in addition to providing the templates
for basic items in the project notebook, that the various
project document, for example Entity Relationship Diagram,
should have more explanation, perhaps templates, and examples.
Tim got volunteers to work on some of these.
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Tim is working on the Discovery project to make the operational
plan a living document. He's inventorying the various documents
that capture the IS work (including the Project Database), and then
will take those documents to various stake holders to learn how they
want to work with them. An important goal is to come to an
understanding of how IS decides to keep track of work.
Check out: http://web.mit.edu/is/discovery/iswork
for the project notebook.
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MEASURES
What are useful project measures?
How do we appropriately modify the IS Strategic and Operational
Plans?
How will we know that we're doing the right thing?
How can we pick the measures that are meaningful but not a big pain
to make?
Greg drew a matrix of Project Success Measures:
High Level Criteria Results Process Relationships
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Business Objectives
End-user Satisfaction
Attaining service levels
Proj. Management
Timing/Tracking
of Proj. Work
Productivity Improvement
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and kicked off a discussion of some of the ideas for measurement.
Some metrics were brainstormed:
- Number of projects (measured by Directors)
by Theme, practice, etc.
- Number of projects that have project notebooks
- Time
Did project meet schedules (3 point estimates)
milestones and risks
- Are we doing hte right work for our customers?
- Ask the customer "Are you satisfied yes, or no?" periodically.
- How did project team feel about the work?
- Was there rework or problems after deployment?
- Was there successful transition to other processes.
- Was there resuse and leverage of what we already have?
Projects may have different success criteria
Multiple views of project success:
- Sponsor
- Process Directors
- Customers
- Team Leaders
- Team members
- etc.
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ROUNDTABLE
0. We're all sick to death of Y2K
rferrara -- Susan Rogers, Donald Knuth, PMI, I-campus, Perf Appraisal
Susan Rogers, former CIO of Harvard business school is speaking
12:00-2:00 Tues 9/14 in the LINC room 9-057
Right after IS Party, Donald Knuth is speaking in 10-250 (6:30 PM)
We've received our Project MAnagement Institute Plaque.
Greg Anderson is talking with Vijay Kumar about how I-campus
integrates with IS.
Mid-year check in -- chat with primary reviewees.
Tuesday's ILEAD is about Performance Appraisal and the administrative
classification system.
janat -- E-911, ICE-9
E-911: Questions about how this should have been managed as a project.
ICE-9 -- really telecom -- We are nearly done. Y2K certified now.
A little behind schedule -- A snag with the production hardware.
Should deploy just in time for the change of year.
sturner -- Events Calendar
Finally agreement with student executed, and received code.
The schedule shifted until those milestones met.
Scheduled end date is mid March.
tomt -- Pismere
Delivery of pilot to Urban Studies planned for IAP.
Contingent on getting W2000 domain controller to work with
MIT Kerberos.
dsheehan -- Spacial Data
Project charter is almost ready. Team being assembled.
Just getting started looking at the candidate technologies.
ganderso -- EMS -> EHSS
Environmental Management System renamed to Environmental Health and
Safety System to make a less ambiguous acronym. Project is just about
to begin.
Has 3 components:
Inventory of Hazardous Materials
Regulatory Briefings (Euphamism for Training)
Regulatory Compliance
