Sid Kaul

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Spring 2000 Role: Quality Assurance Manager.

Summer 2000 Role: Project Support Manager.

Project Wide Role: Client Liaison.

Studio Matrix Role: MSE Librarian.

Email: kaulsid@cs.cmu.edu

Phone: Office: 268-5545

Home: 683-0842.

Personal Web Page: Coming soon – actually I am currently working on making it more “presentable”.

Last updated on: 9^th May 2000, 9:10 PM

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Index

· Tasks

· Current Deliverables

· Owned Artifacts

· Links

· Weekly WBS Reporting

o Cycle 3

o Cycle 4

o Cycle 5 (Actually started on 5^th May 2000, but is scheduled to “officially” begin on 22^nd May 2000)

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Tasks

Last Updated: 9^th May 2000, 8:55 PM.

WBS Code	Description	Started	Completed	Hours Spent	Status
4.3.2	Turnover User Manual	-	-	-	-----------------------------
12.2.7	Watch Practice session of EOSP	5/08/00	5/08/00	2.00	Completed
-	Get room for 5/12 meeting	5/06/00	-	0.10	Currently In progress
-	Send the Postmortem to Bob	5/04/00	5/04/00	0.05	Completed
10.5	Complete Postmortem	5/03/00	5/04/00	2.33	Completed
-	Send KD the action items list	-	-	-	Waiting for team response
-	Send the action item list to team	5/06/00	5/06/00	0.10	Sent to team for review
-	Remind KD to give prior info if she is missing meetings	4/28/00	5/08/00	0.20	Completed
-	Create action item list for KD	4/28/00	5/03/00	0.20	Completed
-	SOW Review Preparation	4/29/00	4/29/00	0.85	Completed
5.2.4	SOW Review	4/29/00	4/29/00	2.25	Completed
-	Send KD the Gryphon web link	4/28/00	4/28/00	0.20	Completed
-	P 3 Integration	4/24/00	4/27/00	11.20	Completed
-	WBS Development for P 3 tasks	4/15/00	4/17/00	2.20	Completed
-	P 3 Planning and Scheduling	4/14/00	4/16/00	4.33	Completed
-	Setup Data Model Meeting w / KD	4/15/00	4/17/00	0.33	Completed – Cancelled
NA	Send postmortem to Bob	4/14/00	4/15/00	0.33	Completed
NA	Send status to Steve	4/14/00	4/14/00	0.25	Completed
-	Prototype 2 – Write data from screen to database	4/12/00	4/18/00	3.66	Completed
-	Send estimates to Steve for Prototype 3 timeline	4/12/00	4/18/00	0.33	Completed and Modified
-	Schedule internal review of SOW	4/22/00	2/25/00	0.20	Completed
NA	Remind KD to send document to Steve or Zia	4/10/00	4/11/00	0.10	Completed
-	Finish populating the database	4/11/00	4/23/00	4.50	Completed those that CAN be populated – Needs work
-	Talk to Andy on the requirements for Prototype 3	4/14/00	4/14/00	0.66	Completed – talked about requirements later as well

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Current Deliverables

Last Updated: 9^th May 2000, 8:45 PM

Deliverable	Due	Status
Cycle 4 Postmortem	5/11/00	Completed, sent to Bob on 5/04/00 and checked into Visual Source Safe
Prototype 3	4/27/00	Completed and checked into Visual Source Safe on 4/27/00
Reviewed SOW	4/29/00	SOW was reviewed, it will shortly be checked into Visual Source Safe
Cycle 3 Postmortem	4/21/00	Completed on 4/21/00, sent to Bob and checked into Visual Source Safe

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Owned Artifacts

Baselined

· Prototype 3 (P 3) This is the third prototype in a series of prototypes developed for the AQP System.

This prototype (P 3) was developed between the 15^th and 27^th of April 2000.

Drafts

NOTE: (These are the drafts of postmortems that I submitted)

· Postmortem for Cycle 4

· Postmortem for Cycle 3

Other

NOTE: (These documents are NOT owned by me – But as QA Manager I have to be responsible for their content quality and reviews – if any)

• Configuration Management Plan
• SPMP
• SOW
• Prototype 3 User Manual Draft
• Prototype 3 Requirements Document v 0.3

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Related Links

• FAA (Federal Aviation Administration Home Page)
• FAA – AQP (Advanced Qualification Program – Home Page)
• FAA – AQP – FOQA (AQP - Flight Operational Quality Assurance Program – Home Page)
• US Airways (US Airways – Home Page)

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WBS Reporting

Last Updated: 9^th May 2000, 8:45 PM.

Cycle 5

Week 1 (05/05/00 to 05/11/00) This is the time spent so far this week

NOTE: Using WBS 4 code numbers for identifying tasks.

WBS Code	Description	Hours Spent	Remarks
7.5	Overhead	0.85	Normal Overheads, Planning, EOSP slides, Action Items
8.1.1	Weekly Tasks	0.55	Librarian tasks
7.10	Customer Liaison	0.75	General communication, prototype information, Gave KD info about the Action Items Info
12.2.7	EOSP Practice Session	2.00	Attended the EOSP practice session
	Total Time	4.15

Cycle 4

Week 4 (04/28/00 to 05/04/00)

NOTE: Using WBS 4 code numbers for identifying tasks.

WBS Code	Description	Hours Spent	Remarks
7.5	Overhead	2.50	Normal Overheads, Planning and Scheduling
8.1.1	Weekly Tasks	0.50	Librarian tasks
7.10	Customer Liaison	1.33	General communication, prototype information
-	SOW Prep	0.85	Prepared for the SOW Review
5.2.4	SOW Review	2.25	SOW v 1.8 was reviewed on 04/29/00
-	SRS Help	1.25	Helped Anne with the SRS document development
10.5	Cycle 4 Postmortem	2.33	Developed the postmortem and sent it to Bob
	Total Time	11.01

Week 3 (04/21/00 to 04/27/00)

NOTE: Using WBS 4 code numbers for identifying tasks.

WBS Code	Description	Hours Spent	Remarks
7.5	Overhead	4.33	Normal Overheads, Planning and Scheduling
8.1.1	Weekly Tasks	1.50	Librarian tasks
7.10	Customer Liaison	1.66	General communication, prototype information
3.1	P 3 Overhead	7.25	Overhead, Documentation of P3 specifics, VB Content enrichment
3.11.2	P 3 Integration	11.20	Used help from Andy, Bob and Zia for integration – besides others
9.2.2.5	P 3 Meeting	2.25	Prototype Demo, etc.
	Total Time	28.19	This week was VERY heavy due to the prototype 3

Week 2 (04/14/00 to 04/20/00)

NOTE: Using WBS 4 code numbers for identifying tasks.

WBS Code	Description	Hours Spent	Remarks
7.5	Overhead	3.95	Meetings, Talk to Bob, WBS Planning, Scheduling etc.
8.1.1	Weekly Tasks	1.20	Librarian tasks
7.10	Customer Liaison	0.50	General communication, prototype information
NA	Database Modification	1.33	Modified some tables to make them more intuitive to read from
9.2.2.5	P 3 Overhead	2.67	Prototype Overhead, discussions, development planning
NA	P 3 - WBS Estimation	1.25	Meeting with Bob to figure out tasks and the times, Developing a WBS
NA	Postmortem – Cycle 3	0.33	Editing the document and submitting it
	Total Time	11.33	Initial planning and ground work for P 3 mainly

Week 1 (04/07/00 to 04/13/00)

NOTE: Using WBS 3 code numbers for identifying tasks.

WBS Code	Description	Hours Spent	Remarks
1.1.4	Overhead	3.50	Meetings, Mentors, Strategy Meeting Minutes, Scheduling etc.
2.4.1.1	Weekly Tasks	0.75	Librarian tasks
2.5	Customer Liaison	0.66	General communication for team issues
3.5.2.3	Strategy Meeting	2.66	Completed a Strategy meeting for cycle 4
-	Prototype Module	3.66	Largely completed functionality for tree traverse and save
-	Database Population	4.50	Populated all the tables that could be populated with existing data
	Total Time	15.73	Some work for P 2 and strategy for Cycle 4

Cycle 3

Week 4 (03/31/00 to 04/06/00)

NOTE: Using WBS3 code numbers for identifying tasks.

WBS Code	Description	Hours Spent	Status
1.1.4	Overhead	1.50	Meetings, Scheduling etc.
2.4.1.1	Weekly Tasks	1.25	Librarian tasks
2.5	Customer Liaison	0.58	General communication for team issues
2.6.4	Reflective Practice	6.17	Did reflection and developed a reflective practice document
	Total Time	9.50	A relatively light week with only the reflective practice to work on

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