[287] in I/T Delivery
Minutes: Project Team Leaders, 11 February 2000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Feb 11 11:56:08 2000
Message-Id: <ssd3w5lz00018Ku0Jf@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:55:33 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: magellan@MIT.EDU, delivery@MIT.EDU, integration-ptl@MIT.EDU,
support-ct@MIT.EDU, hogue@MIT.EDU, adolan@MIT.EDU
Project Team Leaders
Discovery/Delivery/Integration
Meeting 2/11/00
Agenda:
I. Intros
II. Build Roundtable Items
III. I-Campus Discussion
IV. Operational Plan Alive
V. Roundtable
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I-Campus:
Naomi handed out a sheet that lists proposals being considered for
I-Campus funding. She said that the proposals are very exciting.
If some of them come to fruition, the MIT experience could become
very different. She also mentioned that this I-Campus initiatve has
elicited enthusiasm from Faculty and Students the likes of which have
not been seen in a long while.
The I-Campus home page is:
http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/projects/i-campus/
The list of submitted proposals is:
http://ms-proposals.photo.net/proposals/view-props-to-develop.tcl
(This page is what Naomi handed out.)
Naomi described the different proposals in terms of the affected
departments, and possible student and curricular impacts. This sense
of the proposals is actually difficult to get from the pages above.
Naomi is drafting an article for the IS Insider, and she will
circulate some notes on this perspective soon.
Naomi and Vijay have started looking at what kinds of infrastructure
might be helpful to the proposed implementations. This will help
in the next steps of the evolutions by setting expectatons and
requirements.
--
Operational Plan Alive
Tim McGovern's Discovery Report was accepted by ITLT. The delivery
effort has been endorsed: Build a thing to display, record, and
modify the operational plan.
Tim took a little time to present his personal vision is that we are
good, and do good work, and we can do better. The way we work better
is by working together better.
There is a digital portion and a human portion of how we organize our
work. The digital part is less important, and easier. We've done a
good digital representation, but we've not reaped enough benefits.
And this is because the human side, how we use the digital stuff.
Tim chalenged the ITLT to commit to working with the operational plan,
and using it -- making it a part of their daily work.
Putting the plan where people can see it is important, and not
sufficient.
The Operational Plan Alive project is not about managing resource
allocation, or prioritization. Those are human processes that are
informed by the living operational plan.
Example: If we find ourselves doing work we said we were not going to
do, then we need to explicitly record that change, and deal with it.
Jim asked the ITLT to make the kind of committment that Tim called
for.
When the Delivery project starts up, Tim says there will be a need for
people who are good at understanding how to do both the digital and
human side.
Tim also challenges us in the room to suspend our cynicism about
previous failues to buy into the strategic and operational plans in
the past. He asks us to make a leap of faith and commit to living the
plan.
To keep the plan alive:
Keep the information on projects and activities up to date.
Get involved with leaders to keep strategies and initiatives
up to date, and to keep the work connected up with the
strategies and initiatives.
--
Roundtable
wdc updates:
Linux Athena Pilot delivered. We are now in the task of fixing the
hot new bugs we found. It's transitioning to service.
Private Athena Workstation Discovery has met initially, and handed
some initial urgent recommendations for changes to the Solaris Athena
Install to the Release Team for action. A set of comparatively
radical changes have been proposed and accepted for action.
Long jobs has been moving forward with customer outreach. If you know
anyone who has an interest in Athena-style computation submitted as
long batch jobs, please contact rbasch.
The Athena User Interface Discovery effort has been negatively
impacted by the departure of Karl Ramm and Dan Winship. The forecast
is that this project will go on hiatus until the postion opened by Dan
is filled.
IS Forum: Wong Auditorium Wednesday February 23 3:00-5:00 PM
D/D/I update items. What have we finished lately?
Nimbus 1.1, Y2K, Linux Athena Pilot, Events Calendar Discovery,
Casetracker 1.0, Parking System, Network Security Team established,
Operational Plan Alive Discovery, EMCC Established, VM Upgrade,
Campus Police E911 migration, ICE9 Upgrade, Port facilities ordering,
CEASE (SGI rampdown plan), Desktop Software Discovery, Desktop
Software release Discovery, Extended Voice Directory Services
Discovery, Web Server Access Control, SAP 4.5B, CSTR Project
completed, ADSM Upgrade, VWR ECAT2 roll-out, ECAT 1 shutdown,
Tecmail-S decomissioned.
If there are others, tell rferrara.
Staffing:
There's a lot happening:
Curtis Wood is returning to Seattle. Mike Drooker is departing. Dan
Winship and Karl Ramm have taken other opportunities. Eleanor Chavell
is moving to OSP.
Barbara Johnson has joined the Business Liaison Team.
Meya Alquist has joined the Data Warehouse team.
Matt Brody has joined us as a Senior Project Manager.
Steve Turner has had a baby.
EMCC: Mike Barker reports that this is moving forward. Internally
there has been recommendation that IS rather than the EMCC team do
Service, but this needs buyin from IS.
Sap planning
SAP Campus
Integration team membership
At the suggestion of the Provost, Professor Madnick has been added
to the team.
Rocklyn Clarke reminds us that this is a leap year. Watch out for
gotchas.
