[928] in I/T Delivery
9/23 Delivery Council notes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Ferrara)
Thu Nov 7 13:14:07 2002
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From: Robert Ferrara <rferrara@MIT.EDU> (by way of "Jagruti S. Patel" <jag@mit.edu>)
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Hello,
NOTE: to accommodate Scott, Mary, and possibly Chuck, the date for our
review with Jim Bruce has been moved back a week to 8:30-12:30 on Friday,
October 18.
attending: jag, ljr, mjv, msnow, rferrara, thg, mca for thorne, tomt, wdc
absent: pbh, thorne
UPCOMING MEETINGS:
10/1, 2PM: Project Review N42-Demo
10/7, 1 PM: Delivery Council - agenda to review the 10/18 presentation
10/8, 3PM: IS Forum, TDB
10/18, 8:30-12:30: Delivery Process budget meeting with JDB
* Windows strategic directions
- Bob and Tom reviewd the ITLT Windows funding decisions.
- The charter of the Windows 2000 Server and Domains Delivery Team. Theresa
Regan & Phil Long are sponsors.
- 150 known NT4 domains will need to convert to either WinAthena or a
seperate domain sometime in the next calendar year.
- Bldg 37 machines are in, seem to be working well, question of success
criteria for project.
* Roundtable
- Mozilla is default browser on Athena.
- Mozilla on other desktops is a question to be answered.
- Drafting Linux Athena Support pages (IBM's generally work, Dell's are
having difficulties).
- Revenue model for EAST being worked on by thg and ljr
- krb5-1.2.6 release out
- msnow will be following up with people who have over 40 hours of vacation
time.
- IS cookout reminder
- Reviewed Discovery project status page
* Discuss preparation for 10/18 Budget meetings with Jim Bruce and Practice
Directors.
- what else do we know about Jim's expectations?
- IS Survey: summaries available from
http://web.mit.edu/is/survey/issurvey2002/
- review a sample response: wdc on Athena UNIX
- circulate these notes on 10/7
- again, plan for 15 minutes to address the following:
JDB expects "to hear from each Team Leader on four critical aspects of
his/her team's work:
1. The critical issues his/her team is facing -- through the end of
December, as well as for the remainder of FY 2003.
2. The three or four most significant commitments each team has made for
the first half of FY 2003 including
- the key assumptions made regarding staffing and other resources
- the dependencies that the team has on work other teams will do
- the dependencies other teams have on your team's work
- contingency plans in the event that deadlines are not met.
3. How the team intends to follow up on relevant issues from the customer
survey.
4. How the team's issues and commitments relate to IS's goals and
priorities for the year."
Next Meeting 10/7 -- Possible topics:
- Review presentations for Delivery Budget meeting
- 10/21 we'll be in N42
- Possibly follow up on Delivery Council role discussion
- Review what's coming into Delivery
- Focused Information Sharing
- Budgeting in a more shared manner
- Debrief of October 1st Project Review
KERBEROS Post Mortem -
Kerberos / KfM project review by Marshall Vale
- Understand better what these do and the challenges they face
- Identify opportunities to help
- Typical postmortem is to send out a questionnaire to all members of team
- what went well, badly, what needs to change? Allow people to be
completely honest, so combo of written & in meeting helps that
- Keep info from post-mortems around internally for learning; balance to
keep confidentiality
SEE MARSHALL FOR MORE DETAIL
