[469] in I/T Delivery
monthly project report - casetracker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barbara Goguen)
Mon Apr 9 10:45:35 2001
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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:42:10 -0400
To: delivery@mit.edu
From: Barbara Goguen <goguen@MIT.EDU>
Cc: tooltime-team@mit.edu
project name: casetracker 1.5
project leader: barbara goguen, oliver thomas
report date: April 9, 2001
submitted by: barbara goguen
url: http://web.mit.edu/tooltime/notebook/
accomplishments past period:
- continued to evaluate tools and set up development machine
- established task list for project work tracking
- identified solution for running oracle 8.1.7 on test server; need to
upgrade oracle client software as well.
- prepared for integration review on 4/9
- recruited additional resources to the team in part to replace nick
howard, and in part to extend our ability to design, test and operate the
new services. new resouces are likely to be barbara johnson and fred baars.
- held initial brainstorming session working toward a specifications
document for new web interface as part of phase 1.
- continued to discuss service and operations resource requirements and
possible solutions with director of delivery and project sponsor
- continued correspondence with sarah shreeves from libraries about using
casetracker for tracking bugs in aleph; met with debra wiley from fss
regarding their potential use of Casetracker.
goals for coming period:
- conduct integration review and incorporate feedback into our design
- get fred baars up to speed on project in particular the operational and
administrative pieces currently handled by oliver.
- move development server into a server closet and out of oliver's office
- hold second brainstorming session working toward a specifications
document for new web interface.
- determine timing for upgrading production machine to oracle 8.1.7
- identify and/or design a service solution that gets us away from owning
service and operations responsibilities for casetracker
- move email and web enhancements from test into production
- do preliminary tracking of expenses to facilitate the creation of a
casetracker budget should the decision be made to do so.
issues:
- still struggling to keep this work moving forward while all members of
the team have other issues competing for their attention
key learning:
- it helps to keep track of all the tasks
team dynamics:
- all is well, information is being more commonly shared.
