[444] in Project_DB
Re: Project Database Review
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Fri Feb 26 15:28:51 1999
In-Reply-To: <v0302090ab2fca80ac8df@[18.152.0.243]>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:28:11 -0500
To: "Susan S. Minai-Azary" <azary@mit.edu>, Bob Ferrara <rferrara@mit.edu>,
project-db@mit.edu, thorne@mit.edu
From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
Bob,
The Friday time, 3/5 @2 works best for me.
Greg
At 2:36 PM -0500 2/26/99, Susan S. Minai-Azary wrote:
>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
