[31] in Project_DB
Re: What practices?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert V. Ferrara)
Wed Mar 5 09:10:13 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:13:28 -0500
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, project-db@MIT.EDU
From: rferrara@MIT.EDU (Robert V. Ferrara)
See below
At 6:36 PM 3/4/97, Bill Cattey wrote:
>I think the intent of this field in the database is to name the practice
>director most closely affiliated with the project so that we can help
>identify the customers and stakeholders.
>
>As informal chat with Miki pointed out, this field is NOT the same as
>Customer. There IS a customer field in the database.
>
>To unify what Tim and Bob suggested with regards to practices I see the
>following principles:
>
> Take our organization seriously.
> Allow flexibility for internal projects.
> Allow flexibility for external projects.
>
>I agree that Miki did the right thing in allowing NULL practice for
>flexibility.
>
>Clearly our existing practices:
>
>ACADEMIC
>OFFICE
>TELECOM
>
>need to be present.
>
>Bob: Can we move all those other "Practices" into the "Customer" field,
>keep the Practice field of our db cleanly based on our organization, and
>allow just those three and NULL for projects that are not under the
>auspecies of one of our process directors?
Yes, sensible idea. Thanks, Bob
>
>-wdc
