[981] in I/T Delivery
Delivery Council notes 12/16
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Ferrara)
Wed Dec 18 18:00:41 2002
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Hi all,
Here are the notes from the December 16th Delivery Council, thanks largely to Mark Cason-Snow.
Attending: RVF, WDC, THG, LJR, TomT, MCS, MJV
Out: MCA, JAG, ST
Roundtable Updates:
- RVF:
- New hire in Warehouse: Nataraj Iyer (JDB has committed to finding $)
- working with NERCOMP on WebCT and Blackboard agreements - educating members re OKI. Hope is that they will become OKI-compliant
- TomT:
- container admin meeting this Fri. Group has been helpful in working out technical issues. Need separate containers for laptops, desktops. Not using hierarchical containers.
- work on XP support for WinAthena continues
- AFS update that will support XP will come after the holidays
- MCS:
- promotion/equity cases will be considered by ITLT after Jan 1, but will be effective Jan 1.
- Gift certificates in process for two project completions
- WDC: updates re Mozilla release and Solaris handling of partitions/Athena installation
Budget Update:
- JDB submitted budget letter with 3%, 5%, and 7% cut scenarios
- hope to know what actual % will be mid-January (JDB best guess is 5-5.5%)
What's Coming into Delivery
- reviewed list of active Delivery projects from ISWork
- Mailman: replacement for listserv; will be run by NetOps; target release for late Jan.
- MITID Database - now getting more attention
- MITnet Remote Access Delivery - coming soon; will require some development resources
- Spatial Data Services (GIS) - scope, deliverables being revised, did recently release product to MIT community
- TSM migration to UNIX - mostly W91 resources
currently in Discovery
- Windows emulation under Linux - pending
- online conference services - LJR - looking for general solution for event registrations, but focusing on 2004 linguistics conference
Milestones:
- RVF: we've gotten better at counting projects, but still not clear about when we are meeting milestones. Current measure (% major milestones reached) does not seem useful.
Discussion:
- meeting milestones should be part of success criteria
- milestones serve to keep project focused
get someone on team with proj. mgmt. experience to project milestones early on, based on initial timeline. Make comparison of actual / expected status vis-à-vis milestones part of regular project reports
- milestones not monthly, but occur at natural points
- many different types of projects; some projects can't be tied to particular times (e.g. LJR's projects) because of external factors, vendors
- forecasting is an important part of value (who needs this information?)
- what milestone information is useful at a higher level?
- unresolved question: what's the right metric? Is the current one adequate?
- need more precision about milestones (but hard to be precise when we aren't honest about resourcing, when people are interruptible).
Next steps: RVF will talk with JDB to clarify expectations and value/purpose of milestones.
Next All-Delivery Meeting:
- topic ideas:
- discussion of budget (30 min?)
- invite JDB (30 min?)
- selected project presentations: WinAthena/W2K (TomT, Kerem)?
- MCS: talk about CG liaison role (5 min)
- timing: tentatively Tues 2/18 2-4pm
- location: need room for 30 people; THG will scope out DUSP conf room, Tom T will check out Bldg 37
Next Delivery Council Meeting:
- we'll try to alternate with OWLS meetings
- next DC meeting will be Mon 1/6/2003, 2-3:30pm
