[83] in Project_DB
Directors: Is this change to Project DB OK?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Mar 31 16:25:29 1997
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 16:25:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: project-db@MIT.EDU, jis@MIT.EDU, nschmidt@MIT.EDU
To: ITLT@MIT.EDU
The Project Database Implementation Team has met and come up with a
short term change to the Projects Database that answers the following
desires:
That anyone in IS be able to create and track a project with the system.
That there be a clear difference shown between projects that are
officially sanctioned by directors.
The team proposes the following changes:
1. An access table with the names of all IS employees will be created.
(Longer term, some interface with the People Database will have to keep
this up to date.)
2. When the [add] function is used the following new behavior will be added:
If the user is on the IS access list but not a Director, the project
is created
with committment level set to 'informal' and
with project leader set to the user.
If the user is a Director, the formal/informal bit is controlled by
toggle buttons
as it always has been.
(Longer term, a rewrite of the access control system to be simpler and
cleaner is probably appropriate.)
3. The summary page will show formal projects first, and then informal projects
in a separate section further down the page.
CAVEATS:
Projects created informally in this way will show up in whatever process
the creator picked.
The project leader(s) can use the Modify Project screen to set the
project to Formal, or to alter the Process under which the project lives.
QUESTION:
Do you directors have a problem with these informal projects appearing
willy-nilly in your processes?
The team is trying to avoid a lot of patchwork changes at this time, but
could add another process "TBA" for informal projects. But again, the
project leader(s) could set the process in the Modify Project screen.
If we don't hear any objections by Friday, we'll go ahead and begin making the
above three changes. (We can begin making the changes sooner if we hear sooner
that the changes are OK.)
-wdc
