[443] in Project_DB
Re: Project Database Review
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan S. Minai-Azary)
Fri Feb 26 14:37:04 1999
In-Reply-To: <9902212205.AA15986@MIT.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:36:05 -0500
To: Bob Ferrara <rferrara@mit.edu>, project-db@mit.edu, thorne@mit.edu
From: "Susan S. Minai-Azary" <azary@MIT.EDU>
Bob
Neither time works for me. Sorry I will not be able to attend.
Susan
At 5:05 PM -0500 2/21/99, Bob Ferrara wrote:
>Hello,
>
> At the 2/19 Project Leaders meeting, Bill Cattey reminded me that it is my
>action item to call a meeting to resolve our discussion items regarding
>SHORT TERM improvements to the Projects Database.
>
> I'd like to suggest that those interested meet Friday 3/5 at 2 in N42-286.
>The meeting should not be longer than an hour and a half. A secondary
>alternate time is Wednesday 3/10 at 1:30.
>
> These are the outcomes desired:
>
>1) Agree upon the entity-relationship diagram for the data elements. It is
>requested that Scott lead this discussion. He and I will try to prepare a
>draft and distribute it prior to the meeting.
>
>2) Decide on the fields that will be deleted/added in the near term. There
>are currently 22 fields, of which many agree that at least 6 can be
>eliminated, with thir data, now. About a half dozen new fields have been
>requested. I will distribute a summary of the fields and commentary to date
>prior to the meeting. Hopefully, Miki and Bill can have a sense of degree of
>difficulty for each as well.
>
>3) Recommend changes to reports. Here are two suggestions. It would be great
>if Miki can assess how difficult it would be to add a hypertext link to a
>project's home page or notebook on the summary report. Also, all items on
>the Modify screen should also appear on the View Project screen. If people
>have any other ideas, please let me know and they will be added to the list.
>
>Once again, this focus of this meeting is to decide the short term, tactical
>changes to the Projects Database. Make it easier to use and conform to how
>people are actually using it. In the process, we will also create material
>(e.g. E-R diagrams, recommendations) that may be used by a subsequent
>Discovery project to look at our overall project management environment.
>
>So, please RSVP, thanks, Bob
