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Scopus Status Report 11/15/96
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Wade Neiterman)
Tue Nov 19 09:49:48 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:51:54 +0100
To: tooltime@MIT.EDU
From: Steven Wade Neiterman <wade@MIT.EDU>
Scopus Implementation
Date: November 15,1996
Working On Milestone:
- Transition to rollout continues with minor release 1.0 changes,
review of migration and activity tasks, release 2.0 pre-planning
- Customer decided best rollout window is early in IAP (January, 1997)
Accomplishments:
- Completed report on acceptance testing (11/04)
- Completed generation of a Filemaker database to better track bugs and
tasks (11/12)
- Completed known 1.0b8 changes (11/15), including bug fixes and ergonomic
changes, additional minor changes possible
- Completed Macintosh stability testing (11/15)
- Other items in progress:
- Continued technology transfer learning
- Continued data gathering bug/tasks for release 2.0
- Made contact with Customer Care Representative
- Pursued communication with Scopus on software and documentation upgrades
- Continued work on programmer's guide
- Continued learning Brio Query and generating sample reports (11/15)
- Continued release tasks - reviewing hardware listings, review final
data load numbers, user accounts for release 1.0
Goals:
- Continue technology transfer implementation
- Continue building tasks, issues and problem resolution items for R2.0,
including charter, vision statement, scope and work breakdown
- Report to Scopus Macintosh client items, deemed "non-showstoppers"
- Continue with production and test machine management -
cleanup, data export/import, automated warehouse feed, refine
SLA with Facilities Management on production machine, installing SNS
- Refine criteria for rollout and migration
- Review and adjust schedule as necessary according to rollout date
- Continue with problem resolution, Macintosh client, InformTEAM,
obtain latest documentation/software
- Complete and test release 1.0b8 as team agrees to minor changes, including
possible enhancements to Filemaker history data load and display
Longer Term Goal:
- Gather enough information to build a scope statement and work breakdown
for release 2.0.
- Continue to build release 2.0 implementation team
Issues:
- Conversations with Scopus on Secure Network Services have been escalated.
Change in personnel at Scopus seems to have some impact.
