KS Team News 15: Oct 22 2008

Team Welcome Pages
Val is encouraging teams to create informational overview pages for the upcoming Nov 6-7 Orientation Workshop. The UX team has created an excellent example, see https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/3gHlBQ.

Oct KS Board Report Highlights
Full report: https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/rM0App
App Design Team Shortage
App Design team needs 4 additional business analysts. Development plans adjusted to compensate, but expect delays in producing design specifications. New business analyst resources is a top project priority.

Release 1 Development Planning
Team leads are weighing resource constraints and delayed completion of application design specifications to craft a high level development plan for R1 services and application components. Coordinated delivery of team work products is essential to keeping development teams busy.

Initial Release 1 Functional Spec Complete
App Design team's initial functional spec is complete and a good base for defining the methodology and template for future functional specs. Further refinements may be necessary as design and development proceeds.

Use Case Transitioning to R2
7 of 9 R1 use case packages (mélanges) complete, remainder expected by end of month. R2 work begins Oct 27 at Maryland workshop. UX resources will start contextual inquiries and developing R2 personas. Contacts with R1 teams will be preserved. Continuity between R1 and R2 crucial and will stretch available resources.

Service Team Update
8 of 16 R1 service contracts at version 0.1 or better, remainder expected by Nov 7. Service implementation specs ahead of schedule to accommodate the development team plans. Tremendous amount of 'invisible' methodology work and work on infrastructure services has been completed.

Development Infrastructure
Dictionary, Search, Rules, Identity (KIM), Workflow (KEW), and Organization (KOM) services expected to be sufficiently developed to allow development on LUM services to proceed. KIM expected to fully support KS needs by Q2 2009. Creation of deployment lab to test performance, loose coupling of services, ease of installation (quality of install scripts), and accessibility making good progress.

Risks & Mitigation Strategies
a. Taking longer for R1 due to learning curve and delays in finding critical resources

• Manage scope at the detail level
• Consider contracting BA resources

b. Development activities increasingly complex with many integration points and team dependencies.

• Reinforce importance and value of status reporting and project plans.
• Hire a Project Control Manager to work with the team leads and manage the integrated project plan.

c. Alignment between KS middleware and Rice products

• Work with KF and Kuali projects on Tech Roadmap Cmte and Application Roadmap Cmte to develop strategic roadmap for RICE

Misc Tidbits
Open Office 3.0
Head to http://download.openoffice.org to download a new version of Open Office. It includes a host of new features including opening MS Office .docx, .xlsx, .pptx files and native support for Mac OS X.

Kuali Commercial Affiliates Host Web Event Nov 12th
rSmart and Sun are optimizing KFS to run on the Solaris™ OS, MySQL™, GlassFish™, OpenSSO, and Open ESB. See http://www.education-webevents.com/

Berkeley News

Team Highlights
Full status reports at https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/084 (tech), https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/ga0 (functional) Last Week:

• UC: Jiras from App Design re: Create a Course
• App Design: Finished Modify Course, started Func Specs for Retire and Modify Course
• UX: Retire and Modify Course work; developing function map; Create presentation for UC workshop; UX welcome page; Happy receipt of Tomo's "FS High level summary".
• Test lab: Install, configure open source ESBs, research easyb - behavior-driven test framework
• Services: Finished Stack Diagrams. Revising Search and Fact Finder services from MD workshop
• Rice: KIM; Gary finished loading Atomikos config, opt properties
• Dictionary/Search: Type-state config; Enumeration
• Rules: Web service implementation; Fact finder

This Week:

• UC: Conduct review of Modify Program and Organization Lifecycle melanges.
• App Design: Finish internal design of Retire and Modify Course func spec
  UX: Notification swimlane; Presentation for UC workshop; Working toward complete func specs for Create, Modify and Retire Course
• Test lab: More work on ESBs, prepare presentation for JR's group, distributed deployment of PoC (4 tomcat instances)
• Services: Review work by Scott and Norm on data aspects of LU.
• Berkeley SMEs Contacts:
  Use Case: Anne De Luca, Linda Song, Karen Denton (invited but can't attend: Anne Aaboe, Sumei Quiggle).
  App Design: Raul Infante (maybe).
  Scheduling: Jon Conhaim
  LUM: Bill Allison, Helen Lee, George Suennen, Caprice Elias, Doug Au, Rose Chan-Gee, James Collins, Karen Denton, Raul Infante, LaVern Lazzereschi, Susan Tonus, Walter Wong

Secure Web App Workshop
Gabriel Lawrence, Dir IT Security at UC San Diego, will cover basics of secure web app development and testing. Bring a laptop and follow w/ a VM image. Thu, Nov 6 @ 9-noon, see https://security.berkeley.edu/SIG/calendar.html.

Berkeley’s IT Spending
Shel Waggener and Susan McKeehan presented campus IT spending trends since 2001 to the IT Managers' Forum (ITMF) on Oct 14th. See http://snipurl.com/4l84b.

Calendar

October
27 - UX Workshop - Maryland

28,29,30- Use Case Team Workshop – Maryland

30
- Leo and Wil at Educause - Orlando
- Berkeley Open Enrollment Starts

November
6 - Secure Web App Development Workshop - Berkeley

6,7 - UW/USC/New Member Orientation Session - Seattle

12 - Kuali Commercial Affiliate KFS Web Event

17,18 - Kuali Days 7 - Newport Beach

19,20 – Post KD7 Planning Workshop – Newport Beach