[400] in I/T Delivery
12/08/2000 Enterprise Print Delivery Project Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Fri Dec 8 19:05:00 2000
Message-Id: <10012090004.AA05579@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 00 19:02:48 EST
From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.Edu>
To: Roger A Roach <RAR@MIT.EDU>, delivery@MIT.EDU
Cc: Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>,
Jonathon Weiss <JWEISS@MIT.EDU>, ASST <asst@MIT.EDU>,
David G Kalenderian <DAVEK@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Project Name: Enterprise Printing Delivery Project
Team Members: Mary Ellen Bushnell, Rocklyn Clarke, Lynne Durland,
Dave Lambert & Cecilia Talamantes
Report Date: 12/08/2000
Project Notebook: http://web.mit.edu/is/delivery/enterprint/
Accomplishments for the past period:
- ASST installed Apache, Kerb 5 & LPRng on the test IPM server Pillage
- continued documentation of the Business Model; formulated a rate model
- IBM wrote a prototype of the web server to our specs and began
installing it on our IPM server
- tested SSH and X-Windows to support Java GUI - no go due to very
poor performance; successfully negotiated with Anne Salemme to
help with efforts to implement a mini version of DCE to work
within our Kerberos environment
- met with R3-Admin and Jonathon Weiss to clarify issues around
adding SAP queues, Moria/Hesiod stuff, project scope, etc.
- 3827 to 3160 printer conversion efforts were completed with
the assistance of Rachel Sage, Bill Furtado, Art Anger & Lynne Durland
- met with Mail Services to clarify potential delivery issues
- began initial evaluation of IBM's 6400 network attached shuttle
matrix printers as a way to provide impact printing with IPM
- met with Jonathon Weiss to discuss potential organizational fit
options for supporting IPM
- installed a loaner HP4050 printer from OCMG for testing purposes
- finalized Statement of Work (SoW) & Project Change Request (PCR)
contract wording and forwarded same to Legal & Procurement
- negotiated with VM-SST for replacement resource to install mainframe
AFP patch to allow VM to print via TCP/IP connected printers
- continued testing IPM accounting; reviewed current accounting
practices on the mainframe; finalized IPM accounting requirements
- setup test print queues for FSS but suspended this work due to
higher priority project work; started Admissions testing for
their new PDF application submittal process
Goals for the coming period:
- get commitment on the IS organizational fit for IPM maintenance
- test the IPM prototype web server functions & interface, and
provide feedback to the IPM developers; get an approved PO for
the Statement of Work (SoW)
- determine the feasibility of AIX/DCE interoperability with MIT Kerberos
- complete the Business Model and get it approved by ISFT, RAR & JDB
- finalize operational training, and descriptive overview and "how to"
documentation
- get the accounting close to production
- begin user documentation to be linked from the "printing@MIT" page
- get the mainframe AFP patch installed with VM-SST assistance
- further evaluate IBM 6400 shuttle matrix printers as a way to
support impact printing with IPM
- update WBS & timeline (carry over)
- modify IPM to accept Moira feeds
- work with ASST to get KLPR running on the production & test servers
Issues:
Serveral additional conversations occurred this reporting period
around the issue of the organizational fit for IPM maintenance.
The team is hoping the issue is resolved soon to begin knowledge
transfer for the ongoing IPM support folks.
The team's resource for the Business Modeling work is available again
and good progress is being made now.
Key learnings:
Project success needs to include the quality of the project's output
in addition to being on time and on budget (from recent PMI gathering).
Team dynamics:
We be fine. Thanks for asking.
Additional comments:
none
