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3rd Barton Bi-Weekly Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Jones)
Wed Apr 7 15:47:22 1999
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:47:03 -0400
To: magellan@mit.edu
From: Carl Jones <carlj@MIT.EDU>
Cc: efc@mit.edu, 3rdbarton@mit.edu
Project Name: 3rd Barton (Project to find a replacement for the MIT Library
Management System)
Project Managment Team: Carl Jones, Joan Kolias, Nina Davis-Millis
Report Date: April 7, 1999
URL: http://macfadden.mit.edu:9500/c3/3dbarton
Accomplishments Past Period:
Met with Communications team to be more specific about what our guidelines
for getting information to the rest of the staff, and the world at large,
would be.
Latest news is that we will have a bit more time to pull together the draft
of the Request For Solution (RFS). We had hoped to present a draft to Eric
before his last day before leaving for vaction (April 9), but we realized
this would not be possible. This will give us time to put together a more
carefully constructed document upon his return, which will then be taken to
the Library Steering Committe for feedback and/or final approval.
There will be some impact upon scheduling our first round of introductory
vendor demos. We had hoped to start in May, but the reality is we will not
likely be ready until June (or perhaps even July). We had given ourselves
through the end of the summer (and potentially into early fall) on our
timetable, however.
Market Survey Team is working towards turning in its report and will turn
their findings over to the Project Management Team during the coming week.
Functional Needs Checklist Teams have completed their work and their report
was handed off to the Project Management Team.
Met with Eric Celeste, the project sponsor, to discuss the RFS and Market
Survey reports; what form they should take, criteria for including (or
excluding vendors), how descriptive they should be, etc.
Eric C. took the functional needs checklist data and imported it into Excel
spreadsheet and FilemakerPro database form. This will allow us to more
accurately identify items into categories such as basic functional
requirements,important, would be nice, enhancements, pie-in-the-sky, etc.
Meeting with Scott Thorne re. the library data model will have to wait for
scheduling until Eric Celeste returns from Austria in 3 weeks time.
Issues: None
Key learnings:
Meeting with the Communications Team brought out the fact
we had not been very forthcoming with instructions to the working groups
about what kinds of information they might have been feeding to the
communications team as a result of their brainstorming sessions.
Consequently, they were somewhat unprepared for the questions being put to
them as to what kinds of information could be released to the general
library staff about the
process they were engaged in. In dealing with future working groups, we'll
be sure to address this issue.
