[102] in magellan
Pismere Business Models
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Wed Mar 24 15:18:13 1999
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:16:32 -0500
To: magellan@mit.edu
From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: pbh@mit.edu
Project Name: Pismere Business Models
Project Leader Greg Anderson, Jonathan Venezian
Report Date March 25, 1999
URL: http://mit.edu/pismere/business/business.html
Accomplishments past period
- Sub-group is working on a pilot scenario
- Team formation is more clear: Naomi, Marine, Lorraine, Jonathan,
Brian Murphy, Mike Barker (in limited capacity),
- Had informal update session with Mike Barker and Jonathan Venezian
- Naomi and Alex Prengel have begun to gather information about 3rd party
software availability for Windows 2000.
Goals for the coming period
- Check in with sub-group
- Build plan for input/feedback from identified customer groups
- Begin planning for next open meeting - customers, business stakeholders,
others as identified - possible target mid-April
Issues
- Timing issues are getting bigger - when will technical environment be ready;
will that coincide with readiness for pilot, and will that coincide with
availability of software.
- We need to begin to conceptualize what the new academic computing
environment will be like - Athena, Pismere, Linux, etc.
Key learnings
- The scenario building is a useful way to get from strategy altitude to
real numbers.
- Getting input from customer groups and managing expectations will become
increasingly important.
Team dynamics:
- It's very helpful to observe how people work in groups on a task and also
work on particular tasks individually.
Additional comments:
- We (IS) need to reconfirm the strategic importance of this work and
remind ourselves of its priority.
