Goals for the FY2001 (in order of decreasing priority):
- Leadership of Deliver and Service Athena (sub-goals in
chronological order)
- Investigate student salary market parity issues and if appropriate pursue increases. --DONE
- Fill open developer position opened by departure of Dan Winship -- DONE
- Do phase II of Performance Reviews: Goal Setting. -- DONE
- Give team members explicit opportunities to lead Discovery and Delivery projects -- DONE (amb, miki, rbasch)
- Implement metrics around Athena and other Project work. -- PROGRESS (it's a moving target)
- Foster more leadership growth in the team. (Measured by examples of individuals demonstrating new leadership) -- PROGRESS
- Graceful move to W92 (Measured by team satisfaction, and lack of disruption of work.) -- DONE
- Help foster integration of E40 and W91 cultures. (Measured by examples of collaboration and benefits of doing things "the way the other guys would have done it.") -- DELAYED (few joint projects to exploit this year)
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Digital Library project with HP and MIT Libraries (a.k.a. DSpace) (milestones in chronological order)
- Fill 5 open positions by May 31. (Margret Branshofsky 5/1, 30% Larry Stone 4/1, David Stuve 5/22, Mick Bass 5/25, Peter Bretton, Joyce Ng, (Stone left), Robert Tansley, (Project Grew) Peter Carmichael) -- DONE
- Get office space ready for use by June 1, 2000 -- DONE
- Attend DL2000 Conference -- DONE
- Version 0 Specifications delivered by August 31, 2000 -- CHANGED, different project plan.
- Version 0 system delivered to Lead users by December 31, 2000 -- CHANGED: Demo System Delivered January 1.
- Version 1 revision specifications delivered by May 31, 2001 -- CHANGED Design objectives sign off February 2001.
- Version 1 system delivered to users by August 31 2001 -- CHANGED Minimal system demonstrated Aug 1, lead user system scheduled for September 30, 2001.
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Mentoring IS projects (in order of decreasing priority)
- Get team members to create and maintain project notebooks -- DONE, AUI, APSE, Long Jobs.
- Athena User Interface Project. -- DONE Shipped 26 July 2001
- Long Jobs Discovery Project -- DELAYED key stakeholders required special testing.
- Helped with check-in meeting
- Provided occasional advice to Bob on procedure, politics, and trade-offs.
- Athena Private Workstation (sub-projects in chronological order)
- Discovery Project -- DONE
- Delivery of Discovery recommended Athena 8.4 changes -- DONE
- Delivery of Kerberos and AFS unbundled packages -- DELAYED: other, higher priority work overrode this.
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Vendor Liaison (in order of decreasing priority.)
- Get bona fide contacts to replace my interactions with
- Sun -- DONE Garry Zacheiss is doing many day-to-day Sun liaison I used to do.
- SGI -- DONE. Bob Basch has taken over in almost all cases.
- Transarc -- DROPPED. Although we have left the door open, IBM seems
not to want to work with on AFS. I have a small part in the new Open
AFS relationships.
- Foster good relations with our primary Vendors. -- PROGRESS: Sun relations are friendly and productive. I've offloaded to Phil Long the Dell aspects that were bothersome to me.
- Identify and mentor next steps with Office Productivity tools for Athena. -- PROGRESS: Alex Prengel and Rich Garcia here have done very well with working with Sun on Star Office. I've cooked up a modest project plan for the next year.
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Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>