Project Office Status

An initial round of the WBS were complete in August of this year. No resource loading was done at this time. These were not updated until the end of 1998. During this time the Physics Analysis Software and Data Access projects were better understood and formulated. The scope of the  Support Database and Networking  projects have been somewhat extended to meet the Run II Needs. During the fall of 1998 projects reporting at the Run II Computing meetings presented their WBS for review.

The Enstore Project Technical  Review took place on Thursday 14th January. The report is posted here.

The current round of WBS are in progress and are about 75% complete. Resource loading is being done. A review is needed to identify  missing tasks and integration issues and understand the manpower estimates.  Project administrative assistance is being provided by  Rich Thompson, for the WBS,  Mari Herrera for the Web pages and the CD budget office for budget issues. The Steering Committee has approved the responsibility of Project Integration Engineer and Don Petravick has been asked to fill that role.

The Project Leaders will be asked to review and update their WBS quarterly.

The intent is to use the WBS as an active mechanism for understanding the scope of the work to be performed and the resources needed and to record the completed tasks and projects.  While stimulated by the upcoming review, these WBS will be in future used as the ongoing mechanism for planning, scheduling and recording of agreed to deliverables and milestones. If used in this fashion they clearly will need to evolve and be easily updated and made available. We are comfortable with near term deliverables being specified in greater detail than longer term ones. We do not plan to establish a baseline.  The WBS resource loading should be understood in the context that:

- A single resource type is considered to be Required and Available - a JPP (Joint Project Person). There is no rating of resources.
    -  Resources are required and available in units of FTE. Each actual person assigned  is estimated to contribute at most  .7 FTE. Scientists, who have up to 50% research fraction, will contribute a lower fraction of their time.
    -  Support Resources are required from an early stage in some projects. Their deliverables are ongoing and in general the  work required gradually increases to a steady state and then has local peaks for specific maintenance and support tasks (e.g. support for new versions of an Operating System). It is difficult to represent this in a WBS structure.