Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 19:38:46 -0400
To: itlt@MIT.EDU
From: rferrara@MIT.EDU (Robert V. Ferrara)
Subject: Delivery Vision for Five Year Plan
Cc: delivery@MIT.EDU

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People,
  Attached is Word document of the Delivery Process Vision. It's also in
plain text below. Obviously your comments are appreciated.    Thanks, Bob

                             DELIVERY VISION FOR 7/1/98

      This is a formatted, organized list of the ideas developed at the
10/11 Delivery Project Leaders meeting in W91. In addition, Mike Barker's
notes have been plagiarized extensively, particularly in the Operational
section.

BASIC  (ACHIEVABLE MUCH EARLIER)

*  All projects "on the radar" in a widely visible project database
*  Project notebooks standard, updates managed by project leaders
*  IS/resources database, maintained by Competency Groups, also widely visible
*  Predictable forums and sources of additional help for Delivery Leaders

OPERATIONAL

* Strong integration influence, including "checklist" (e.g. warehouse, roles)
* Core project techniques established, including :
     -  Planning and estimating techniques
     -  Standard peer reviews
     -  Project tracking  system,  with  early warning ability
* Better calibration of organizational "capacity"
* Pilot of  recommended methodology in process

ORGANIZATIONAL

* Process-oriented style firmly established
* People comfortable with multiple projects, fluid movement between
    projects and processes
* Opportunities and skill requirements very visible
* Small number of research projects supported (e.g. web interfaces,
object-oriented
     prototyping)

PROJECT-RELATED

* Several successful completion and transfers to Service and Support
* Athena source trees fully functional
* Strong IT partnerships to all non-IS staffed projects
* Good links to Reengineering initiatives

SKILLS  (FOR COMPETENCY GROUP CONSIDERATION)

* ABAP and  SAP skills in MIT community, less Contractor dependency
* More business analyst, system integration, project management talent
* Deeper Powerbuilder, Oracle,  and  Release Engineering skills
* Maintain leading edge security and web capabilities