[99] in I/T Delivery
26 Sep 1995 Delivery team leaders meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey On the Road)
Fri Sep 26 13:01:23 1997
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 97 12:05:34 EDT
From: wdc@MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey On the Road)
To: Delivery@MIT.EDU
Next Meeting:
24 October 1997
in E40
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1. Status/Announcements
Hiring Status:
Bill reports Craig Fields replacement search not yet started.
The globe ad went out (but was hidden behind a bigger
ad from harvard.)
Bill said Kathy Allen reported good success with postings to
'The Monster Board'.
6 Month review of Performance Appraisal Goals
On track, but not yet complete.
Project DB
Team held a meeting last week.
brl version now live
Checking in our goals: coding goal met. brl is live
Documentation and training needs more effort.
Bob says that the quality of the content is slipping.
We agree that there is an issue about helping get
people to use it, and making sure the db has value
to project managers.
ITLT update:
Brian McDonald has been helping coach ITLT on how they
work.
Last week:
Work with ABST (Administrative Business Services Team.)
Jim proposed a different implementation plan than what
Ad/Fin originally suggested.
New team for Team Leader HR functions and Mentoring
endorsed. (See below.)
This week:
Began discussion of work on 5 Year plan
Maybe do the budget presentation differently.
Oct 9 is all day planning session.
Additional sessions on Oct 23 (1/2 day), and Nov 3
MCC seems doing quite well.
ECAT-2 seems to be on track.
N42 move news
Move dates for specific people are firming up.
Move schedules are currently planned pretty tight.
Details are falling into place for equipment etc.
2. Upcoming Discovery and delivery projects
Projects that Bob highlights as having high near-term impact:
Addstrat
Data Warehouse
Help Tools
Imaging Accounts Pauable data in SAP using IXOS
SAP Web
Calendaring/Scheduling
Electronic Catalog, next generation
Graphic Arts billing system replacement (as a special case of the
larger issue of billing for internal service providers.)
MIT Year 2000 Project
Roles
Paul Hill's NT Athena Client work.
Mail subscription services.
2 new discovery efforts:
CG planning team recommended a People and Effort tracking system be
investigated.
TLO effort.
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5 year plan inputs:
for next meeting.
people should review what we did and talk about it next week.
Production-ready web service components
for next meeting
Treating web servers as one-off server development doesn't scale.
How can we do better at this?
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3. Discussion:
Technical training:
There are opportunities internally to IS for people to offer
training to their colleagues.
The competency team would handle the logistics so that
the volunteers would only have to do the Technical/Content piece.
Possible subject areas:
NT (Many courses desired: Administration, Troubleshooting which go
beyond just basic end-user training.)
Dynamic Web page generation
NT/Oracle training
Tim points out that in our overloaded organization, the effort
of producing a course is a non-trivial additional workload to ask
volunteers to take on. We should set our expectations appropritely.
Rocklyn suggests smaller groups, like 5 or fewer, and smaller teachings
you will get some useful value with low cost. Maybe create an
infrastructure that could harvest small-scale ideas in this area.
Bill reminds us that there is also the impact of trying to interest
overloaded staff into taking time out to go learn stuff. Maybe focus
on giving content that is clearly seen as interesting rather than a
monthly effort.
Discussion of how to balance priorities and reap benefits.
Kate encourages people to send her email with topics, tools etc.
kkibbee@mit.edu
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New team for Team Leader HR Functions and Mentoring:
Current members are Bob, Bill, and Kate.
Looking for 2-4 more members.
1 or 2 staff.
1 or 2 team leaders.
Send email to rferrara to volunteer to join.
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IAP Course Ideas:
Proposals are due for IAP course proposals (It needs only be
a course name, and a length of the meeting.) by October 10.
Bob has forms to submit the proposal.
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4. Roundtable
Rocklyn: SAP Web is working to kerberize the SAP transaction interface,
but will have a fall-back position with the previous implementation
if the kerberization does not occur on schedule. (We're still waiting
on stuff from SAP.)
Bill: SGI Hell.
Lorraine: ECAT II: Personal purchases at the MCC is now done through
NECX. Departmental purchases are filtered through NECX. The end-user
interfaces have been rolled out. The closer connections to SAP are
under development and on track.
Mike: Reminder: there is now a real easy tool to crack net connections
widely available. Using encrypted telnet really is important.
We expect to have O^2's running Athena by IAP. We expect Beta in
November.
Wade: Web oracle help desk application is 85% complete. URL coming
to delivery. PLAY WITH IT! Really need testing and feedback.
Larry: IXOS stuff on track.
Ted: Kludge server to support Student services under Power Builder is
working.
The CVS server is now pretty much in production. Mac development
team is using it. NT client is ready to use.
Greg: pass.
Teresa: EPS was demoed. Making progress on connecting up with
stakeholders. Next week a big Coeus user group will review EPS.
Tim:
Bob: Next meeting is one month from now.
1st quarter reports
SAP Phase 2.
What to do about the web applications/servers going.
