Dear Martin Thanks for your feedback. Just for clarification before the audio conference, I think there are a couple of points that it's worth to remark while looking for the best solution to this issue: * Neither the position as second representative of FI-WARE in the FI-PPP Architecture Board nor the role of "Deputy Chief Architect" of FI-WARE, if we agree to name it that way, are assigned to SAP. They are positions we agreed that should be assigned to that person who all partners feel confident can play the best role for the sake of the project, not representing the particular interest of a company but of the project as a whole. If Thomas, who had so far carried out activities for both positions, leaves SAP, then this simply means that there is a vacancy for both positions and therefore the PCC should (with participation of SAP, of course) take a decision on who is the best candidate to cover that vacancy * Despite it may have not been written anywhere in the DoW, it was well known by all the parties that a number of PMs were assigned to SAP to cover development of activities linked to the above mentioned positions by Thomas. That was understood like that tacitly. Therefore, it seems fair that some PMs get transferred to the partner the new person appointed for both positions works for. Whether such partner belongs to the original consortia or not should not prevent us to select the best candidate. The PMs will stay with SAP if the PCC finally agrees that the position will be covered by some architect in SAP. But this is yet to be decided. Regarding how many PMs we are talking about, it's true that nothing were explicitly stated in the DoW, but based on experience, we believe this would more or less 50% of a FET during the three years of duration of the project. We are happy that you propose Axel Fasse to cover the vacancy created with the leave of Thomas. However, I hope you understand that the decision on who is the person to cover such vacancy belongs to the PCC. We also hope that SAP is willing to accept the results of such decision and will not object to transfer the funding required to cover the PMs needed to carry out activities in the above mentioned positions. We are not talking about so much funding at the end of the day and what should really matter of all us, including SAP, is that we finally agree on who can cover the vacancies. As I said in one of my previous mails, this is a situation we have shared with the EC and they agree with the way we are proposing to handle it. Let's go for the PCC meeting and decide on who is the best candidate to cover the vacancies. Thinking on the best for the project. Best regards, From: Przewloka, Martin [mailto:martin.przewloka at sap.com] Sent: martes, 06 de diciembre de 2011 21:31 To: JOSE JIMENEZ DELGADO; 'fiware-pcc at lists.fi-ware.eu' Cc: JUAN JOSE HIERRO SUREDA; Bauer, Nicole Subject: RE: SAP participation in FI-WARE. Architecture Board Dear PCC members, First of all congratulations to a successful first review recently. The good rating of the M6 results and the reviewers' comments promise to meet FI-Ware's ambitious objectives including an industrial uptake of a Future Internet platform. Nevertheless, there are many challenges ahead that require commitment and dedication from all FI-Ware partners. I've no doubt that Thomas Michael Bohnert contributed very valuable results in the past. As you know, Thomas is going to leave SAP end of this year seeking new opportunities in the academic environment. SAP has decided to replace Thomas with Axel Fasse. I'm absolutely convinced that Axel is an adequate successor of Thomas both in leading SAP's activities in FI-Ware and in contributing to the FI-PPP Architecture Board. As you also know, the budget allocated to the membership in the FI PPP Architecture Board as Deputy Chief, taken over by Thomas until end of 2011, has been assigned to SAP. Axel Fasse's nomination is not only in line with the Collaboration Agreement but confirms the legit interest of SAP to be represented by its own employees. I firmly believe that SAP also acts in the interest of the consortium and aligns with the reviewers' comment to sustain the FI-Ware achievements independent of individual persons. Therefore I'll not support the PCC's proposal to keep Thomas in FI-Ware on SAP's behalf. I appreciate your understanding. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions. Kind regards, Martin Przewloka Prof. Dr. Martin Przewloka Senior Vice President Internet Applications & Services, SAP Research SAP AG Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16 D-69190 Walldorf From: JOSE JIMENEZ DELGADO [mailto:jimenez at tid.es] Sent: Samstag, 3. Dezember 2011 10:32 To: Przewloka, Martin Cc: JUAN JOSE HIERRO SUREDA; Bauer, Nicole; 'fiware-pcc at lists.fi-ware.eu' Subject: SAP participation in FI-WARE. Architecture Board Dear Martin, Thank you very much for your interest in the issue. During the last meeting of the PCC we considered the issue in detail and we agreed to send you the letter attached. As indicated, we are looking forward to your proposals. Best regards Jose Jimenez and PCC From: Przewloka, Martin [mailto:martin.przewloka at sap.com] Sent: lunes, 14 de noviembre de 2011 11:57 To: JOSE JIMENEZ DELGADO Cc: JUAN JOSE HIERRO SUREDA; Bauer, Nicole Subject: RE: SAP participation in FI-WARE Dear Jose, thank you very much for your reply, and I fully understand the requirements to become an AB member. Since you will meet Axel Fasse next week, would you like to have me to setup a confcall between Axel Fasse and Juanjo Hierro beforehand? Or would you recommend to have a call afterwards to discuss next steps etc? Unfortunately I'm out of office for external meetings next week that will not allow me to come to Brussels. Nevertheless, if you don't mind, would you be available the week after or the first week of December to meet in Madrid? If required, I can make sure that Axel joins me as well to follow up on the Brussels meeting. Best regards, Martin From: JOSE JIMENEZ DELGADO [mailto:jimenez at tid.es] Sent: Montag, 14. November 2011 09:58 To: Przewloka, Martin Cc: JUAN JOSE HIERRO SUREDA; Bauer, Nicole Subject: RE: SAP participation in FI-WARE Dear Martin, I'm happy to hear that you have taken a lot of actions in response to our original email sharing our concerns regarding SAP's performance in the FI-WARE project. However, I think we should take into account that the fact that Mr. Bohnert is leaving SAP causes two types of problems that should be considered differently 1) Participation in WP 2) participation in Architectural Board and managerial activities in Fi-WARE Regarding contribution to the different WPs where SAP is involved, we welcome the participation of Mr. Fasse. We are sure he will be a good WP leader and will fulfill all WP activities. A good proof point will be the upcoming first official review of the project where we hope that SAP will get everything ready regarding activities linked to the Apps/Service Ecosystem and Delivery Framework WP you lead. This include addressing all issues and recommendations that reviewers made on the FI-WARE High-level Description (Product Vision) deliverable as well as getting everything regarding elaboration of the FI-WARE backlog (selection of Features for the 1st minor release of FI-WARE and planning of user-stories/work-items for the 1st FI-WARE Sprint) Regarding the participation in Architectural Board and managerial activities, we want to highlight that Mr. Bohnert can only be replaced by someone who actually meet the same skills/profile, therefore can play the same role in the project. Note that 36 PMs were assigned to SAP under the assumption that Mr. Bohnert, or someone with equivalent skills/profile, will participate in the project not only supporting us in global technical direction but participation in the FI-PPP Architecture Board. In this sense, note that this activity has 36 PMs assigned to one person, not the company as a whole. Certainly we are looking for a high profile professional here. Note that this profile is mostly of an architect nature, not just project management. Note this rule do not only apply to SAP. It also applies to any member of the Architecture Board and key project personnel and particularly to project manager or Chief Architect which cannot be replaced without consideration and approval by the PM and the EC Therefore, as coordinators and global responsible of the project, we, together with the Project Coordination Committee, will have to analyze the candidates you propose for the AB. Then, we should be able to decide whether the replacement is valid and consequently recommend the Project Coordination Committee to go for the replacement or try to find other alternatives. This is an issue already discussed with the EC, and we have all their support on the matter. For this reason, we would ask you to organize a confcall where Juanjo Hierro, Chief Architect and Technical Manager of the FI-WARE project has the chance to talk to Mr. Axel Fasse. Of course, Mr. Axel Fasse may join the next FI-PPP Architecture Board meeting as representative of SAP but this won't guarantee he will take the second seat in the AB representing FI-WARE until accepted by the PCC Indeed it would be a very good idea having a personal meeting. As you know, the project is meeting in Brussels the 21 and 22 for the project review. It may be a good opportunity to meet there (your presence can be also very useful since we are meeting the EC on the 22). If you could come on that date (or even the 23) it would be a pleasure talking to you personally. Best regards ---- Jose Jimenez Telefonica I+D jimenez at tid.es<mailto:jimenez at tid.es> tf +34 91 4832660 De: Przewloka, Martin [mailto:martin.przewloka at sap.com] Enviado el: jueves, 10 de noviembre de 2011 19:20 Para: JOSE JIMENEZ DELGADO CC: JUAN JOSE HIERRO SUREDA; Bauer, Nicole Asunto: RE: SAP participation in FI-WARE Dear Jose, since your last email we took a lot of actions. Nevertheless, I'm still receiving different messages about the status of the project and the recognition of SAP's contribution. As you know, Thomas Bohnert is still leading the project from SAP perspective, and he will leave the company by end of the year. Until his leave, Thomas is fully responsible for the project, and I made sure that his priority (above all other topics) is to successfully lead and to hand-over the project. Furthermore, we worked on his successor and appointed Axel Fasse to this role 2 weeks ago. I hope this information arrived you as well, and Axel will join Thomas during the next AB meeting to get introduced to the whole team in person. We also defined clear responsibilities for the different Work Packages within SAP. I would very much appreciate to have an in-person meeting with you to get first-hand information about the current project status, any possible concerns and information about outstanding deliverables, if so. I will ask my assistant Nicole to organize a meeting with you, and I would be glad to have this meeting in Madrid, Brussels, or ... based on your preferences and your availability. Thank you very much, hope to see you soon and best regards, Martin From: Przewloka, Martin Sent: Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 15:09 To: 'JOSE JIMENEZ DELGADO' Cc: Bohnert, Thomas Michael; 'fiware-pcc at lists.fi-ware.eu'; 'JUAN JOSE HIERRO SUREDA'; Merz, Christian Subject: RE: SAP participation in FI-WARE Dear Jose, thank you very much for bringing this issue to my attention. Thomas was so kind to brief me in more details, and I requested Thomas to assess the specific (technical) areas that would require more efforts and attention. Furthermore I asked Thomas to escalate to me directly - this finally will allow me to take the necessary actions. By doing so, I'm convinced that we are able to improve the situation shortly. In any case, please feel free to contact me again in case there's no progress during the next weeks. Best regards, Martin From: JOSE JIMENEZ DELGADO [mailto:jimenez at tid.es] Sent: Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 14:34 To: Przewloka, Martin Cc: Bohnert, Thomas Michael; 'fiware-pcc at lists.fi-ware.eu'; JUAN JOSE HIERRO SUREDA Subject: SAP participation in FI-WARE Dear Mr. Przewloka Project FI-WARE is reaching the first months of its activities and important deliverables, regarding architecture and decisions on future activities are now being taken. The implication of SAP on those activities is crucial to the success of the project. SAP, as you know, is one of the key partners provided with a significant financial share. The involvement of SAP is therefore considered essential and ought to be proportional to that financial share across the various aspects of the project. Even if involvement of SAP personnel visibly taking part on technical activities could be considered satisfactory, we regret to observe lacking evidence of devoting all the foreseen resources in certain technical areas, in particular in terms of proportional technical contributions (assets) for the development of FI-WARE Generic Enablers. Apart from the above, we'd like to remind SAP to the importance of technical and managerial representatives at key meetings of the FI-WARE project. Absences mean a significant reduction of the usefulness of those meetings and imply a loss of time of other partners coming to the meeting to discuss technical results and actions. We would certainly appreciate you would take the necessary steps to correct that situation which otherwise may result in a lack of effectiveness of the effort that SAP and all partners of FI-WARE are devoting to the success of our project Best regards ---- Jose Jimenez Director Public Programs and International Relations Fi-WARE project Manager Telefonica I+D 28050 Madrid jimenez at tid.es<mailto:jimenez at tid.es> tf +34 91 483 2660 ________________________________ Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. Puede consultar nuestra política de envío y recepción de correo electrónico en el enlace situado más abajo. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee. We only send and receive email on the basis of the terms set out at. http://www.tid.es/ES/PAGINAS/disclaimer.aspx ________________________________ Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. 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