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EAST Monthly Status Report for December 2001
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rocklyn E. Clarke)
Thu Jan 10 03:25:28 2002
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From: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <rclarke@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Enterprise Application Software Team <east@mit.edu>,
"Belton, Preston D Todd" <tbelton@mit.edu>,
"Johnson Sr, Nathaniel J" <njj@mit.edu>,
"Roach, Roger A" <rar@mit.edu>, "Dolan, Edward F" <edolan@mit.edu>
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Hello,
Here's the December EAST Report.
Rocklyn
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EAST Monthly Status Report for December 2001
Team Name: Enterprise Application Software Team (EAST)
Team Leader: Rocklyn E. Clarke
Report Date: January 10, 2002
URL: http://web.mit.edu/east/www/
General
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General Goals for December 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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c Finalize plans for team member career development
c Test VPNs for EDI and IPM remote administration
- Finish individual and team EC3 modules
- Get revised MIT Apache distribution with .htaccess mods
- Get approval for new business model and implement it
- Interview potential consultant for COEUS work
General Accomplishments for December 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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- Finished individual and team EC3 modules
Team:
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Probing, questioning, assessing, determining real needs
How to say "No" to a customer
Rocklyn Clarke
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Managing stress, agenda, and priorities to attend to another (done 9/05/2001)
Negotiating expectations, outcomes, criteria for success (done 11/14/2001)
Jennifer Lu:
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Speaking clearly: what's involved (done 11/20/2001)
Recognizing and responding differently to different customers (done
12/6/2001)
Jana Tarasenko:
Conveying respect, interest, concern (done 10/11/2001)
Dealing with difficult people: Resistant behavior (done 10/25/2001)
Kelly Yu:
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Speaking clearly: what's involved (done 11/20/2001)
Recognizing and responding differently to different customers (done
12/6/2001)
- Miki Lusztig finished revised MIT Apache distribution with .htaccess mods
- Gathered data to support new business model
- Interviewed potential consultant for COEUS work
- Got approval to hire Lisa Robinson
General Goals for January 2002 ("c" indicates carryover):
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c Finalize plans for team member career development
c Test VPNs for EDI and IPM remote administration
- Get approval for new business model and implement it
- Integrate Lisa Robinson into EAST
General Issues:
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- The new Central Printing Service is now in production and will need various
mods for some time to come. This will require significant time from Rocklyn.
- Need to get all team members working 20% time on team tasks
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COEUS
COEUS Goals for December 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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- Source code freeze for Coeus 3.8 should happen in first week of December
- testing of Coeus 3.8 by users at OSP
- Release Coeus 3.8 to OSP
- Migrate test database to Coeus 3.8
- Work on installers for Coeus 3.8
c Continue Java learning exercise
COEUS Accomplishments for December 2001:
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- Coeus 3.8 Source code is frozen now
- Coeus 3.8 is being tested by OSp office for last 3 weeks.
- Fixed all bugs reported so far
- Test database is migrated to 3.8. OSP is testing Coeus against the
new test database
COEUS Goals for January 2002:
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- Release Coeus 3.8 to OSP office (Weekend of 1/18)
- Upgrade Coeus production server to 3.8
- Build installers for Mac and windows
- Port Coeus 3.8 to Mac
- Test Mac version of Coues 3.8
COEUS Issues:
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None
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SAPweb
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SAPweb Goals for December 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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c Plan work to provide automated SAP system status info to SAPWeb clients
c Plan upgrade of "Sporkie", the SAPweb test/development server
c Resolve problems using Internet Explorer to create requisitions in SAPweb
- Fix bug involving reqs with large number of POs attached.
- Fix JavaScript problem when using Internet Explorer to access SAPweb
SAPweb Accomplishments for December 2001:
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- Planned work to provide automated SAP system status info to SAPWeb clients
- Investigated various intermittent/non-reproducible bugs reported by BLT
- Continued working on various reproducible problems
SAPweb Goals for January 2002 ("c" indicates carryover):
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c Plan work to provide automated SAP system status info to SAPWeb clients
c Plan upgrade of "Sporkie", the SAPweb test/development server
c Resolve problems using Internet Explorer to create requisitions in SAPweb
c Fix bug involving reqs with large number of POs attached.
c Fix JavaScript problem when using Internet Explorer to access SAPweb
- Separate test and development environments on sporkie
SAPweb Issues:
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Todd Belton took a well-deserved vacation in December
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TNS
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TNS Goals for December 2001:
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- Finish loading MOIRA IP data into TNS billing.
** This part couldn't finish in December billing because users needed more
time to clean database.
TNS Accomplishments for December 2001:
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- Fixed 24 Service Orders.
- Produced 7 ad-hoc reports.
- Made 1 new client installation.
- Continued working on the procedures to load MOIRA IPs into TNS billing.
TNS Goals for January 2002:
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- Finish loading MOIRA IP data into TNS billing.
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Team Dynamics:
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Waiting for outcome of budget process
Learnings:
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None
Additional Comments:
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None
