Preparing for the Launch Mohammed El- Affendi

Launch Major Tasks  The Launch is performed according to script “LAU1”, table 3.1 in the book (page 39), and involve the following steps: – Course overview by instructor – Collect student information – Sate the product objectives – Form teams and assign roles

Launch Major Tasks  Set team and member goals  Explain how team meetings are conducted (purpose, scheduling and reporting)  Team leaders hold the first meeting  The planning manager reviews for the team the data required from every member every week, and the reports to be generated

Goal Setting  It is important to set goals for the whole team and for individual members. Three types of goals are expected: – Team goals – Member goals – Role goals  The goals should be measurable  See pages in the book

Roles: The Team Leader  Lead meetings.  Review agenda.  Make sure that the meeting achieves its goals.  Assess risks.  Report to instructor.

Development Manager:  Criteria for an effective strategy.  Conceptual design.  Propose and evaluate alternative strategies.  Allocate functions to each cycle.  How to subdivide and then integrate the product.

Quality Manager:  Document the strategy criteria.  Document the strategy.  Document the meeting.

Planning Manager:  Size and time estimates for all the current cycle products.  Rough estimates for the products of subsequent cycles.

Support Manager:  Identify the configuration control board and procedures.  Specify any needed support tools and facilities.  Reviews the procedures with the team members for their agreement.

Weekly Meetings  Fix a weekly time and place for team meetings  Follow the week script (table 3.5), page 44 to conduct meetings  Before the meeting update your personal TASK and SCHEDULE forms and summarize them in the WEEK form (table 3.6)

Weekly Meetings  The most important purpose of the meeting is to gather and analyze team’s data for the prior week and the development cycle to data  All engineers must submit individual data to the planning manager who compiles team WEEK, TASK and SCHEDULE forms

Preparation for meetings:  Each engineer should fill and submit to the planning manager the WEEK, TASK and SCHEDULE forms.  Planning manager prepares the weekly status report from the individual reports.  Meeting agenda has been issued.

The First Meeting  Discuss Roles: Every member should be aware about his role  Discuss cycle 1 goals  Set a weekly time and place for meetings  Agree on a time to submit the required data to the planning manager

Project Notebook  Establish a project Notebook for the team using recommendations in appendix G.  The team leader is responsible for maintaining the notebook

Some Forms  TSPi Weekly Status Reports.doc TSPi Weekly Status Reports.doc  TSPi Task Planning Template.doc TSPi Task Planning Template.doc  TSPi Schedule Planning Template.doc TSPi Schedule Planning Template.doc