[434] in Project_DB
Re: Project Database portion of Joint Project Leaders meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Feb 8 19:57:07 1999
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:56:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: "Allison F. Dolan" <adolan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: project-db@MIT.EDU
Excerpts from mail: 8-Feb-99 Re: Project Database portio.. "Allison F.
Dolan"@MIT.E (611*)
> Bill, with regard to Project Database - I didn't see it explicitly
> mentioned (and saw a couple of items that suggested it wasn't
> considered) - Ideally the Project DB should be able to be used by anyone
> in IS, for IT as well as non-IT projects (eg CG project and ABST
> projects) In thinking about appropriate field values, please don't
> forget that I'm a Director and that there may not always be alignment
> between a project and a Process... (I'm not asking for anything new to
> be added - just to make sure that the field definitions and any field
> validation isn't too restrictive.)
> Thank you!
> ......Allison
Allison:
Thanks for thinking about this and providing the reminders of these issues:
Usability of the Project DB outside IS.
Usability for non IT projects
Directors don't just live in Processes.
I strongly suspect that we will focus the current Project DB work on
improving the system for a narrow user community of IS IT project work.
I myself question whether there should be a Process focus to the
projects. I am hoping that discussion that comes about soon will help
us make some headway on this issue.
I also agree with your taking the position that you wanted to raise the
issues rather than call for specific work.
Thank you,
-wdc
P.S. I've taken the liberty of CC'ing the project-db mailing list with
this note because I think the others on the list would benefit from
reading it.
