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EAST Monthly Status Report for July 2001
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From: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <rclarke@MIT.EDU>
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EAST Monthly Status Report for July 2001
Team Name: Enterprise Application Software Team (EAST)
Team Leader: Rocklyn E. Clarke
Report Date: August 3, 2001
URL: http://web.mit.edu/east/www/
General
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General Goals for July 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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c Finalize plans for team member career development
c Begin discussions with ITAG about VPNs
- Choose individual and team EC3 modules.
General Accomplishments for July 2001:
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- Bob, Nate, and I have agreed on the eventual transition of Jana and
Kelly to E19
- Began discussion about VPNs with Jeff Schiller
- Chose two team EC3 modules:
Probing, questioning, assessing, determining real need
How to say "No" to a customer
General Goals for August 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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c Finalize plans for team member career development
c Determine feasibility of VPns for remote EDI and IPM remote admininistration
- Choose individual EC3 modules.
- Post job description for new EAST position
General Issues:
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- Henry Sennott will be local ABST contact for purchasing and reimbursements
- I would also like for Henry to verify my MIT Purchasing Card purchases
- Rocklyn moved from N42-240N to N42-250L early in July.
- Rocklyn needed more time than expected to switch from reading email
on VM to Eudora
- Rocklyn had to devote time to several other projects:
New VM rates for FY 2002
Several Telecom-related meetings
Preparing for placing Enterprise Printing Team work into production
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COEUS
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COEUS Goals for July 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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- Work on Coeus 3.8 release.
- Release a beta version of Coeus 3.8 to UCSD.
- Should complete Coeus 3.8 coding by end of July
COEUS Accomplishments for July 2001:
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- Working on Coeus 3.8
- Provided two Beta versions of Coeus 3.8 to OSP for testing
- Developed Reporting Module for Coeus 3.8
Goals for August 2001:
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- Provide Coeus 3.8 to UCLA and UCSD for testing
- Test Coeus 3.8 and fix any problems
COEUS Issues:
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None
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SAPweb
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SAPweb Goals for July 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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c Set up documentation for key SAPweb maintenance tasks
c Make requested changes to displayed help desk phone numbers
c Determine feasibility of providing automated SAP system status updates
c Finalize plans for Facilities access to SAPweb
- Understand two major SAPweb / ECAT bugs: "10 items" & "blank screen"
SAPweb Accomplishments for July 2001:
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- Developed firm estimates for Facilities and MES SAPweb mods
- Completed test version of Facilities clone mod
- Began discussion about automated SAP system status updates to SAPweb
- Corrected bug which may be a contributor to the "10 items" problem
SAPweb Goals for August 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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c Set up documentation for key SAPweb maintenance tasks
c Make requested changes to displayed help desk phone numbers
c Determine feasibility of providing automated SAP system status updates
- Understand two major SAPweb / ECAT bugs: "10 items" & "blank screen"
- Complete Facilities clone version and place in production
- Finalize plans for MES version
- Set up SAPweb "show and tell" for EAST
- Meet with Usability Team to discuss SAPweb user interface
SAPweb Issues:
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- The two outstanding SAPweb bugs are intermittent and not readily
reproduced on demand
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Telecom / ICE9
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Telecom Goals for July 2001:
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- Install new VDIN rates into production and create report with old and
new rates for verification.
- Finish cleaning of IP addresses information.
- Update v-mail information related to new type of rates before July
billing.
- Develop and test with CAO new feed into SAP.
- Install new SAP feed into production.
- Install modified (names for calling card holders) Data Warehouse feed
into production.
- Participate in a new effort leaded by Alicia Allen: IP address billing
inconsistency between Moira and ICE-9.
- Continue work in 5ESS Switch replacement team.
Telecom Accomplishments for July 2001:
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- Fixed 6 service orders.
- Produced 25 ad-hoc reports.
- Made 3 new client installations.
- Installed new VDIN rates into production and created comparison
report with old and
new rates for verification.
- Finished cleaning of IP addresses information requested by Dennis
Baron and Robin
Blanco.
- Updated v-mail information related to new type of rates.
- Developed new feed into SAP, tested it twice with CAO and installed
into production.
End-of July production run was finished on time.
- Incorporated into new SAP feed last minute specification changes
related to revenue GL
accounts and cost centers.
- Added calling card holder names into Data Warehouse feed.
- Worked with Data Warehouse on adding pager information into Data
Warehouse feed and
installed it into production.
- Produced information for frame verification by Lucent.
- Analyzed possibility of massive updates of cable and wire
information in ICE-9 after
frame verification by Lucent. It has to be done through service orders.
- Had initial meeting with IP address billing inconsistency between
Moira and ICE-9
team.
- Had meeting with Garry Zacheiss from above team discussing details
of what has to be
done in order to feed information from Moira to ICE-9.
Telecom Goals for August 2001:
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Because Kelly's and Jana's vacation only necessary production support
is planned for August.
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Team Dynamics:
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Good
Learnings:
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Same as last month
Additional Comments:
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None
