[88] in magellan
Information Broadcast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Wed Mar 10 16:17:46 1999
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:15:53 -0500
To: magellan@mit.edu
From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: tregan@mit.edu, salemme@mit.edu, joanne@mit.edu
Project Name: Information Broadcast
Project Leader Greg Anderson
Report Date March 10, 1999
URL: http://web.mit.edu/is/discovery/broadcast/charter.html
Accomplishments past period
- New project - small 'p' heritage, but with two components:
status/outage and bulk communications mechanism.
- Team is together: Suzanna Lisanti, Joanne Costello, Anne Salemme,
Theresa Regan, Greg.
- Charter reviewed and in place
- Have held several broadly representative meetings for input/buy-in
- Data gathering, problem definition, design principles completed.
- Began implementation of the voicemail component for status : 3-DOWN
- Began design component for web pages for status/outage
- Presented preliminary findings and design at OCMG on 3/9/1999
Goals for the coming period
- Gather data to inform the web design.
- Build plan for input/feedback from identified customer groups
- Continue to build relationships with those key units involved and with
the stakeholders.
- Begin discussion of long term placement of this service and the process
to scale it up for other systems/services
- Begin planning for next OCMG meeting and for IT partners.
Issues
- There are still update/decision discussions that need to be clarified.
- Insuring buy-in, setting expectations, and reducing the surprise element
for all concerned.
Key learnings
- This is a project that is a win for IS and for our customers.
- Setting the principles and creating a balance among various dynamics was
importnat.
Team dynamics:
- The team has held together well. Now that the work is progressing beyond
the agreement and design components, the entire team will become more fully
involved as the work expands.
- Once we accomplish the first part of the project (status/outage) we will
need to maintain energy to address the bulk communication mechanism.
