UCB Deployment Priorities June-July 2013

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Last updated: Jun 17, 2013 by Aron Roberts (Unlicensed)Version comment
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Note that the following priority work areas are listed in priority order.  However, there are high priority individual tasks that are further down the page in lower priority work areas.  All of these work areas are important.  Some will have significant attention in the current sprint; others are a thin thread of activity at this time.  The real activity tracking happens in Jira.  This page is not a replacement for that system.  It is a higher level planning document.

In addition to identifying specific tasks, this version starts to incorporate targets or goals for each work area, some of which are quite a bit further out in time.

Work areas

Conduct initial planning for PFA-CSpace

Targets

June - Kickoff meeting with project team
July - Kickoff with BAM/PFA
July - Documentation of existing systems and fit-gap performed
August - Scope signoff
End February - Launch?

Tasks
  • Retrospective with team about Bot Garden migration (STIM/Discussion scheduled for June 6)
    • Write up and identify improvements for next time (June) (Priority task for John L)
    • What lessons can we carry forward to CineFiles?
    • Is the timetable for CineFiles realistic? Too short or too long?
  • Discuss approach to ... (DAG, CH, PS) (June, July)
    • Project expectations/SLA
    • Project methodology and management
    • Functional fit-gap/design
    • Data analysis/design
  • Begin documenting CineFiles (June)
    • XDB functionality
    • XDB data (priority task for Glen)
    • Image workflows
    • CineFiles web site
  • Begin documenting other BAM/PFA collections requirements (July)

Django-based web applications

Targets

July - UCJEPS prototype developed
September - UCJEPS and UCBG portals launched

Tasks
  • Document procedures, with examples (CSPACE-6002, CSPACE-5990) (June) (Priority task for Amy)
  • Add new styling to Bot Garden reports that take parameters (UCBG-282) (June)
  • Determine whether to access data directly in CSpace database or via a snapshot (June)
  • Add functionality in a series of iterations (searching, images, downloading data, mapping) (July, August)
  • Next stage of design work with UCJEPS and UCBG (UCJEPS-404) (June) (Priority task for Amy)

Develop process and SLA with customers to manage expectations and set priorities

Targets

July - Service Level Agreement and advisory group processes drafted
August - SLA signoff

Tasks
  • Hold conversations with UCJEPS, PAHMA, Bot Garden, BAM/PFA (June) (First meeting scheduled June 28)
  • Develop SLA regarding common and locally-specific requirements and process to handle requests (July)
  • Hold conversations with HAVRC and CEDVRC (July)

Make progress on Delphi integration for PAHMA

Targets

Tasks

June - determine how to get images
July - next phase of work on tasks
When? - launch

  • Tasks TBD (Priority task for John L)

Determine whether we have performance problems, especially from the user perspective

Targets

August - Performance on three production systems is stable

Tasks
  • Review information gathered by Rick (June)
  • Identify tasks that are high priority to address performance issues (June) (Priority task for Rick and Chris)
  • Improve database performance on UCJEPS production server (June, July) (Priority task for Ray)

Address critical stability bugs for existing deployments

Targets

July - Critical stability bugs are fixed.

Tasks
  • Test and confirm fixes (June) (Priority task for Ray)

Perform post-launch support for the Bot Garden

Targets

August - Botanical Garden system in production support

 Tasks
  • Training for horticultural staff use (June) (waiting for Bot Garden to schedule meeting)

Decide how we want to host and operate deployed systems

Targets

July - Select architecture for hosting CollectionSpace and web applications
July - Select system/customer for initial transition
December - Other systems transitioned

Tasks
  • Follow up with database team (June)
  • Meet with Unix team (June)
  • Perform more detailed financial modeling (June)

Perform identified work for CollectionSpace 3.3 and Mellon Officers Grant -- see the v3.3 release page

Tasks
  • Unified config and other bug fixes (June, July)
  • Contribute UCB customizations to project (Show Related Objects; Add to Record; maybe others) (June) (Priority task for Ray)

Incorporate Citation contribution from SMK

Tasks
  • Review, integrate (including modifying code/config as needed), and test contribution (CSPACE-6006) (June)
  • Map SMK schema to PAHMA/TMS data (June)
  • Update UCJEPS and UCBG with Citation authority, perhaps via 3.2.3 upgrade (July)

Other irons in the fire

  • Get backups going on dev.cspace (May)
  • BerkeleyMapper integration
  • Geomancer integration
  • Mellon Officers Grant UI/Fluid documentation tracking
  • PAHMA reports (Priority task for Tom)

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