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3rd Barton Bi-Weekly Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Jones)
Wed Feb 24 15:46:51 1999
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:44:16 -0500
To: magellan@MIT.EDU
From: Carl Jones <carlj@MIT.EDU>
Cc: 3rdbarton@MIT.EDU, hennig@MIT.EDU, jceggles@MIT.EDU, waynej@MIT.EDU,
efc@MIT.EDU
Project Name: 3rd Barton (Project to find a replacement for the
MIT Library Management System)
Project Management Team: Carl Jones, Joan Kolias, Nina Davis-Millis
Report Date: Feb. 24, 1999
URL: http://macfadden:9500/c3/3dbarton)
Note: project began Fall '98
Accomplishments past period:
- Phase 1 Project Groups defined (Communications, Market Survey,
Functionality), volunteers assigned.
- Guidelines for each group were distributed, including discussion of
expected group outputs.
- Project Charter finalized.
- Met with 3rd Barton Discovery Team (Greg Anderson, Eric Celeste,
Vijay Kumar, and Carl Jones). Presented project charter and timetable.
Reviewed status of the project so far and received some useful comments
from Greg and Vijay, including suggestion to see Scott Thorne about the
Library data model.
- Communications and Functional Checklist Teams had their first meetings.
Goals for the coming period:
- Market Survey Team set to meet later this week (Feb. 26 )
- Market Survey Team begin contacting vendors and collating responses
- Functional Checklist Team members will hold brain-storming
sessions and begin to shape the information gathered into a format
we can use to compare internal functional needs with vendor systems.
-Comunications Team - begin work on project web site (Project Notebook).
URL: /http://macfadden:9500/c3/3dbarton
- Contact Scott Thorne for a discussion of library data model.
Key Learnings:
- Project Management Team needed more time together, and commitment to a
three times-per-week meeting schedule has been beneficial.
Issues: None
Comments:
- Getting the project going has taken longer than we had imagined,
however, with meeting of the first groups, it feels like things are
finally starting to move ahead.
Additional Comments: None
