AG2 PROJECT SCHEDULE

This is the plan approved by the AGLI in March 2004. A progress report as of June 29th 2004 is attached here

The schedule should evolve from the aims and constraints, so first some general points.

(1) GENERAL POINTS

1.1 We agreed the general approach at the January AGLI meeting :

• all institutions have re-affirmed their involvement
• SSVO merges with AG2
• resource allocations deferred until after design study

1.2 Personnel management :

• agreed to extend contracts for PM, PS, TL
• other AG1 staff : announce late enough not to encourage early departures
• but early enough to give people a chance to find other jobs
• some staff contracts end in September : aim for decisions by July 1st
• additional effort from Pye : project assistance

1.3 PPARC expectations

• preliminary plans described to GSC in February
• committed ourselves to showing them Project Plan in "late summer"
• they will want to see clear evidence of organised plan of work
• but won't care about resource distribution : up to us.

1.4 Project Psychology

• PPARC thinking of us "continued AstroGrid"
• but we should think of distinct projects
• AstroGrid-1 MUST DELIVER : AG2 not an excuse to delay
• descope AG1 as necessary to deliver product
• want clear set of additional goals for AG2
• also want clear fresh-start planning without disturbing AG1 work.

(2) DOCS TO PRODUCE

2.1 Design Study

• informal documents for internal AG debate
• three parts :

(a) Technical scope (TL leading)

(b) Science scope (NAW leading)

(c) Vision doc (AL to lead)

• needs to be done pretty soon so we can iterate

2.2 Project Plan

• this is the bit that needs to re-assure PPARC
• so needs to be done by summer
• but can also be a document we circulate publicly
• parts needed are :

(a) AG2 vision document : including top-level goals

(b) Architecture overview

(c) Management Plan :

• deliverables
• milestones
• risk table
• staffing plan
• hardware plan
• budget

2.3 Design Reference Architecture

• overview architecture exists
• detailed Technical Architecture for AG1 in Itn06
• need AG2 architecture October

(3) TIMETABLE

Later dates need revising when we know GSC date.

-- AndyLawrence - 04 Apr 2004