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[tjm@MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern): Re-starting the Athena Backup System Project...]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Jun 30 16:43:15 1994
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 16:43:07 EDT
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
The WBS tim refers to is transaction 5 of this meeting.
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From: tjm@MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
To: jweiss@MIT.EDU, delgado@MIT.EDU, dkk@MIT.EDU, salemme@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re-starting the Athena Backup System Project...
Cc: kim@MIT.EDU
[JW: Once the discuss meeting is up, this can go in as well...]
Today, we re-constituted the team for the project that we now call the Athena
Backup System project. We assessed where we were, and then mapped out where we
are going in the short-term.
Here are the results of our first meeting.
1. The Team...
Project Leader: Tim McGovern
Sr. Technical/Designer: Diane Delgado
Programmer: Jonathon Weiss
Customer Representatives: Anne Salemme
David Krikorian (not present)
For lack of anything better, we agreed to use the Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS) that Jonathon had previously developed, and which has been
posted to the discuss meeting as transaction [0000].
2. Where are we...
Using the WBS, we determined that we have
- completed the REQUIREMENTS phase
- written a HIGH LEVEL DESIGN document, but it needs to be
reviewed again by the team, and then with key DCNS
technical experts.
In the course of coming to this conclusion, we identified a
number of the key issues that we need to resolve. The action
items that resulted from that discussion are listed below.
3. Where are we going (short-term)...
Our goal is to produce a demo-able prototype of the new system as soon
as possible. To do that, we first need to finalize a HIGH LEVEL DESIGN
document. With that done, we will be able to fine-tune the WBS in the
area of LOW LEVEL DESIGN and then move quickly to code the prototype.
4. Action Items
a1. Anne will provide a demo of the current system to Diane
a2. Anne will provide information on the Sun backup product Co-Pilot
to the team...as background for our own work. We are NOT
opposed to a purchased solution, but don't expect there will be
a good fit with our requirements.
a3. Diane will review the existing draft of the HIGH LEVEL DESIGN, and
produce for the team's review a revised DESIGN before our
next meeting.
a4. Jonathon will establish a mailing list/discuss meeting for this
project, and populate the the discuss meeting with the documents
that have already been created.
a5. Anne will ask the net about tools that might be more versative
than dbm, but still not in the Ingres/Oracle class of products,
for storing the various kinds of dbs that we need for this service.
a6. Anne will brief David on the results of the meeting.
5. Next Meeting
July 14, 1994 1:30 E40-316.
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