[639] in magellan
Magellan ahead...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Thu May 3 15:21:54 2001
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Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 15:21:39 -0400
From: Tim McGovern <tjm@MIT.EDU>
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My magellan colleagues,
The changes affecting I/T Discovery announced earlier this week are
beginning to take shape. Joanne Hallisey, Matt Brody and I are already
beginning to manage the day-to-day activities in Discovery. We are
working hard with Jim, and the Practice Directors, to define how the
Discovery Council will operate. In the weeks ahead, more details about
these and other questions will be released as they become available.
One of the truly outstanding elements of the I/T Discovery process over
the last several years has been the bi-weekly Magellan project leader
meetings. We will be continuing these meetings, same day, time and
frequency, modus operandi and purpose. As Discovery project leaders, we
hope that you will use these meetings to share what you are learning
about Discovery, and to seek help from your colleagues. But the value
of these meetings transcends just Discovery. The meetings are open to
anyone looking to learn more about project management techniques,
practices, pitfalls and such. We ask that you take a moment to think
about staff who you interact with, and to consider forwarding this
informal invitation to them.
Our next meeting will be Thursday, May 24th. As we have done for a
while now, we will be asking each active Discovery project leader to
send a short report in the standard magellan format to the magellan
mailing list by the Wednesday before the meeting, and we will be using
the issues, learnings and team dynamics sections from those reports
to form our meeting agendas.
Although we are are skipping the next normally scheduled meeting due to
scheduling conflicts, we would like to ask all active project leaders to
send a magellan report by next Wednesday, May 9th, and to hold May 24th
on your calendars for the next regular meeting.
For more details on Magellan (including a reminder of the outline of the
bi-weekly reports), see
http://web.mit.edu/is/discovery/magellan.html
We look forward to seeing your reports next week, and to meeting with you
again on the 24th.
Tim
