Plan to create Westwood Hiring, Timetable and Budget

In the next 6 weeks, OSAF will be working on the staffing requirements, timetable, and costs required to implement Westwood. This has been identified as the final set of product and development information required for the Mellon/CSG Westwood grant proposal.

As with all large software projects, our resulting estimates will be rough. We don't think we are any worse than other development teams in producing long-term schedules, in fact because of our combined experience in developing large-scale applications we are probably better than most, but we have no magic bullets or special insights either. Because we are creating a long-term development plan for a novel product there are unknowns. However, we will carefully describe all the risk factors we have considered in producing the schedule and budget.

To facilitate estimating the scope-of-work and associated costs, we will divide Chandler into several development projects. Examples of these projects include:

• Email
• Calendar
• Data framework
• Viewer Parcel framework
• Security framework

For each project, we will detail quarterly milestones to be achieved in order to implement Westwood. For each milestone, we will include:

• Main thrust and theme of the quarterly release
• Major features and accomplishments expected of each development project
• Accomodation in design to support Westwood requirements
• Staffing requirements
• Known risk factors in meeting this milestone

Examples of milestones are:

• Chandler Architecture Release (v0.2) which we anticipate for Sep-Oct'03
• Functionally complete Canoga alpha release (v0.5)
• Stable Beta release including major API and UI freeze

From these milestones we will roll up a product release timeline noting the incremental resources needed to support Westwood requirements, and then derive the budget required to implement Westwood.

After developing the overall plan and budget, we will identify the percentage of work related to higher education requirements. We will do this on a development project basis. (For example,the calendar project will have a higher percentage than the Viewer Parcel framework because of CAP development work.) The amount of funding requested in the grant proposal will be derived from these percentages, reflecting the additional work necessary to create a higher education version of Chandler.

We will produce a rough draft of this plan by early July, circulate that draft among CSG members, and deliver a final grant proposal by July 21st.

• From OSAF, Chao Lam, Michael Toy and Pieter Hartsook will be the key people to drive this plan.
• From CSG, Michael Gettes, Greg Jackson, Larry Levine, Jack McCredie, Joel Smith and Oren Sreebny will be providing input and higher ed perspective to the plan.
• From Mellon, Ira Fuchs will be our point person

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copied from CSG Twiki by -- PieterHartsook - 24 May 2004