Attack Plan 

Updated: July 14, 2008.  Previous month's nGenera Apps Team Attack Plan - May 2008 Next month's nGenera Apps Team Attack Plan - August 2008

The Apps Team is currently working on the following:

• CIM - lead engineer, Weidner
  • v8.1 release - target date 7/31.  Currently 70 bugs in progress
    • Code Freeze moved from 7/18 -> 7/25 due to scheduled vacations
    • 7/28: RC Build - This build will be available on a limited bases (restricted customer list).
    • DB Assessment: In process. Driving to get key data by 7/25
    • Load Testing: Tentatively scheduled for mid-August. Load Test Plan in progress.
    • End Game: 9 bugs remaining (Triage Approved) for final RC. ETA: 8/5
    • RBC Build: 7/31 - Required drop to RBC (Build 418 assumed)
    • Dev Doc Review in process.
  • Connextions Cobrowse Patch: Completed 7/15
  • JAWS / BMO Server Delivered: 7/15
  • 8.1 Early Bits for RBC: Delivered 7/15
  • v8.0.3 hotfix 2 release
    • Due: 7/18
    • Completed: 7/18
    • HF2 has been uploaded and is available for general use.
    • HF1 has been removed from the support site: Supplanted by HF2
  • ToDos:
    • Hit Glidepath for 8.1 Code Freeze
    • Schedule / Deliver 8.1 Training
    • Review / Deliver 8.1 Documentation.
    • Channels Transition Planning and Hiring
    • Channels 9.0 Feature Planning (with PM)
• Knowledge Base - lead engineer, Hemal Kothari
  • Addressing customer issues with v8.0 upgrade
    • Customers have been restored back to v7.0.1 and are fully operational, and have their modified data back.
    • Patches have been developed for issues seen under load.
    • Working on a plan for simulating load on the 8.0.3 Shared Hosted platform (as seen on Live Platform).
    • Internal Load Testing using custom scripts & existing Tools.
    • External Load Testing - looking at 3rd parties (e.g. WebMetrics)
  • v8.1 release - target date - 7/31 (Original) - Currently: 80 Active Dev bugs.
    • Code Freeze: 7/25 - has been moved out because of Shared Hosted issues.
    • RC1 Build: Week of 7/28
    • Bug Stats:

      • 80 Bugs Assigned to Dev
                        - 9 A's
                        - 24 B's
                        - 21 C's
                        - 17 D's
                        - 9 E's

      • Total Bugs for QA left to verify:
        - 224 Resolved Bugs to resolve in next build 8.1.0.16

      • Link to VS Team Site: http://hqdevtfs.talisma.corp:8090/ (or http://207.77.61.35:8090), Project CIM 8.1. [don't know if this is reachable from outside?].

  • Load Testing: Repeat same exercise (as v8.0.3) for 8.1.  Tentatively scheduled for August.
  • PM Communicated Date for Release of 8.1: Second half of August.
  • Todos:
    • Hit Glidepath for 8.1 and land the project.
    • Schedule training for Teams here (next week)
    • Waiting for draft of Documentation to review and provide feedback
    • Hiring (backfill for Dave's position).
    • Work-In-Progress - work with PM on KB 9.0 Feature planning
    • Work with team in Austin and collaborate on integration features for 9.0 and beyond.
• nGen Collaboration (aka Hub) - lead engineer, Roeder
  • v7.0 (Jira feature list), contact mroeder@ngenera.com for access.
    • Highlights:
      • First pass at content service, using personal wiki as prototype
      • Twitter integration, user tweets + 'presence'
      • Converse/Reply by email
      • Facebook integration (profile merge at user service and pushed to hubs)
      • Templates (clone conv)
      • Search++
      • Wiki Versioning (?)
  • nGenera Hub support as needed
  • todos
    
    • Continue to ramp up new dev hires, John and Rodrigo, specifically towards 7.0
    • Work with Akif/platform team to hand over user service and platform build
• nGen Compensation (aka TCS) - lead engineer, Gonzales
  • v2.0 GA Release - target date 7.17 (Final QA verification in progress)
    • Feature List
  • v2.2 GA Release - target date 10.1
    • Feature Design - complete as of 7.11 (Feature List)
    • Development - start date 7.18
    • Testing - start date 9.8
  • Reporting and Datamart infrastructure 
    • Datamart enhancement to coinside with release 2.2
    • Additional features to be available in Q4 
  • enGine Performance improvements
    • Performance Results
  • Roadmap planning with SHeath and Shimberg. 
    • nGen Compensation product discussion group.
  • Widget exchange between nGen Comp and e.lab
    • Planned Release of 3 Widgets (wrapped JSR Portlets) for 2.2
      • Workflow - nGen Workflow
      • WhatIf - nGen Comp
      • Reports - Cognos
  • nGen Workflow discussion
    • Initial discussion - completed
    • Conversations created
      • Requirements
      • Candidates
    • Todo
      • Evaluation Checklist (See Requirements wiki)
      • Follow on meetings
• Platform  - lead engineer, Schriftman
  • Developing Strategy Guide
  • Supporting SimOD Development
  • Hold. BSG RA communication and socializing - via the Architecture Review Team 
  • Hold. BSG RA documentation including:
    • BSG RA Patterns and Best Practices Guide
  • nGen Sales - a SFDC mashup - requires new content API. This will initially be implemented in the hub via a new controller (content_controller) and will partially migrated to the content service when it becomes available.
    
  • Counterparty integration - early stages - negotiate feature set with PM - will lead to the possible development of a complex relationship service, along with a set of relationship widgets
    
  • .NET Toolkit (starting with user service)
  • Storage Service (Shared document storage and file handling)
    • client: promotion of "document" to conversation model
    • client: plugin
    • server: clustering
      
• Personnel and recruiting
  • Eng interviewing continues
    • JohnC, RodrigoD, AkimR, and JonathanB hired, starting 7/7, 7/7, 7/7, 7/21 
  • QA Director (MaartenM) hired, started 7/14
  • Revise personnel review forms
  • All-hands meeting 7/29
• Quality Engineering (QE) - director, Metz 
  • Formalize Quality Engineering mission and intial Quality Priorities
  • Future.  Staffing plan, processes definitions
  • Week of 8/3:
    • Visit the NY office.
      • Get better understanding of products, processes and assets
      • Present my QE philosophy and methodology
    • Started initial conversations with Ukraine and Russian offshore companies, which will soon be followed by a more formal RFI process
• Operations:
  • (Done) Configuration Jira for task management of nGen Collab and Platform.
  • Coordinate with David Krueger (and Bob Tapscott) on our datacenter strategy / migration
  • Create integration and staging environments with DavidK, MaartenM
  • (JimmyG) Upgrade Jira to head revision; install charting plugins
• Research:
  • Widgetbox
  • http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/spec.html 
  • Idea Storms (Bright Idea, etc)
  • http://graphviz.com/
  • http://www.dataportability.org/  
  • Google OpenSocial API:  http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial 
  • Google Friend Connect
  • Google App Engine:  http://code.google.com/appengine/
  • Summarization tool:  http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/manyaspects/?open&ca=dna-flht-07242008&S_TACT=106AH62W&S_CMP=NEWS
• SimOD - currently on hold pending feedback and planning session with modeling team.  Anticipated future work and task list
• Other business development activities
  • Baynote 
  • Queplix
  • SenseMaker 
  • Traverse
  • Zuora
• (Ongoing) , especially as concerns Project Butterfly and Members Hub

The following projects are on hold (reason listed in parens):

• (Need resources; waiting outcome of Traverse partnership) "YouTag" prototype
  • Phase 2: requirements collected from sourcing team (Berry, Bryan)
  • Several demos with Traverse Corporation concerning possible co-developing partnership
• (Strategy unclear) nGen Talent roadmap w/ AndyS and ScottH
• (Waiting on PM) nGen Customer roadmap planning with KellyL, FrankC, and RobB 
• (Need resources) Ideastorm prototype

Comments welcome.