[Fiware-boost-rural] ATTENTION: your SmartRural effort/budget

[Juanjo Hierro]

Hi,

   Note that allocation of budget for travels and other direct costs / 
subcontracting will also be revised and we may also come with some 
requests for alignment.

   Cheers,

   Juanjo


On 16/06/2020 19:49, Juanjo Hierro wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   We are carefully reviewing the allocation of efforts partners have 
> made for the project and have found several inconsistencies and issues.
>
>   This mail is to announce you that we will be sending tonight (around 
> 22:00 CET) a message with a list of changes to implement regarding 
> allocation of efforts.   Please stay tuned because we would like to 
> see your confirmation before 23:30 in order to implement those changes 
> and be able to submit a first version of the proposal in the late 
> night.   No response will be considered acceptance of the changes.
>
>   DON'T WORRY regarding reduction of your budget.   We are not seeking 
> at reduction of your overall budget but willing to fulfill a number of 
> rules.  There will be even some increases for some partners.   We will 
> come with specific requests regarding reduction of efforts in some 
> tasks and increasing of efforts in some others.
>
>   Some examples of inconsistencies we have found:
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>   * We need to define a common rule which establishes who will be able
>     to allocate resources in tasks 1.1 (project management) and how much:
>       o the genera rule will be that WPLs will be assigned 2 PMs
>       o it doesn't make sense that some non-WPLs have resources
>         assigned to this task while others don't
>       o therefore, those who had allocated PMs and were not WPLs have
>         to place allocated PMs in another WP (e.g., pilots)
>   * It is non-sense to allocate PMs in WP2 regarding the SmartRural
>     Digital platform and have assigned 0,5 PMs to several tasks in
>     that WP when it is unclear what you will do. Following the same
>     principle, everyone would have 0,5 PMs to every task in WP2 which
>     doesn't make any sense.   We prefer you reinforce with additional
>     resources the WP associated to pilots.
>   * In general, we would like to avoid that every WP has 20+ partners
>     ... that would be unmanageable and a reviewer may kill us
>     precisely because would know it would be unmanageable.  The only
>     exception may be WP3 and WP4, precisely because it cover
>     activities that are not cloned but replicated by pilot in each of
>     the rural areas.
>   * etc.
>
>   Again, please stay tuned.
>
>   Cheers,
>
> -- 
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> Juanjo Hierro
> Chief Technology Officer
> juanjose.hierro at fiware.org <mailto:juanjose.hierro at fiware.org>
> www.linkedin.com/in/jhierro <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhierro>
> Twitter: @fiware <https://twitter.com/fiware> @JuanjoHierro 
> <https://twitter.com/JuanjoHierro>
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