Dear colleagues,
For your info, please find enclosed our response to the mail sent by Herink Abramowicz from Ericsson regarding their request to report PMs beyond the limits that we had decided to accept (very generously in my opinon, I have to say, as explained to Henrik in the attached mail).
If you believe there was something wrong or not accurate in our message, I happy to hear your opinion.
Cheers,
-- Juanjo
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Subject: Re: FI-WARE: Withdrawal of Ericsson. (*** VERY IMPORTANT & URGENT ***)
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:46:46 +0200
From: Juanjo Hierro <jhierro at tid.es><mailto:jhierro at tid.es>
To: Henrik Abramowicz <henrik.abramowicz at ericsson.com><mailto:henrik.abramowicz at ericsson.com>
CC: JAVIER DE PEDRO SANCHEZ <jdps at tid.es><mailto:jdps at tid.es>, LUIS GARCIA GARCIA <lgg at tid.es><mailto:lgg at tid.es>, "subsidies at tid.es"<mailto:subsidies at tid.es> <subsidies at tid.es><mailto:subsidies at tid.es>, Anders Caspár <anders.caspar at ericsson.com><mailto:anders.caspar at ericsson.com>, "jhierro >> \"Juan J. Hierro\"" <jhierro at tid.es><mailto:jhierro at tid.es>
Dear Henrik,
It was Ericsson's unilateral decision to withdraw the project. You were not asked for any reason to do so nor the project changed its position or way of working thus making you impossible to stay in.
On the contrary, Ericsson's decision put the project into real trouble.
After double-checking with all the WP leaders where Ericsson was involved, our position doesn't change: the 2,6 PMs we had planned to assign to Ericsson in addition to the PMs declared by Ericsson at month 18 are considered fair to cover your involvement until your withdrawal was officially communicated.
Of course, you may report more PMs for that period but, following our obligation as coordinators, we will report to the EC whether we agree with the declared figures or not and certainly we won't agree with any declared costs beyond those we have already tell you. It will then be up to the EC to accept or reject your declared costs and we will adjust the planning of costs accordingly.
Indeed, I remind you that some of the deliverables rejected in the 1st reporting period (which justified the rejection of costs reported for that period) were also rejected in the month 18 review. These included the Open Specifications of the IoT chapter (where Ericsson played a major role) and the FI-WARE Technical Roadmap which was made up from the contributions by all the partners (including Ericsson). Acceptance of PMs declared not only during the 2nd reporting period (months 13-24) but also the 1st reporting period (month 1-12) depends now on the extra efforts for recovering that are currently being made by rest of the partners regarding rejected deliverables. Reported costs linked to development of deliverables rejected in month 18 will be finally accepted only if those deliverables get accepted in the 2nd year review and this will be because of the merits of rest of the partners who had recovered without the help of Ericsson. Acceptance of costs declared by Ericsson until month 18 plus the additional 2,6 PMs would therefore be rather generous indeed.
Regarding your comment on consent of any amendment, note that you are not considered a member of the consortium since you notified Ericsson's withdrawal, therefore we don't need to get Ericsson's consent for any amendment we are implementing after Ericsson has withdrawn from the project. It's up to us to decide how planning of PMs can be realistically declared based on input from the WP leaders and taking into account the status of the project after the month 12 and month 18 project reviews.
Best regards,
-- Juanjo Hierro
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On 15/04/13 19:51, Henrik Abramowicz wrote:
Dear Javier et al,
We have been checking the time reporting and you were right that it did not reflect the actual work done in that month due to that our time reporting system certain months can come up with higher pms than planned. This is because it covers the last Quarter and there is lagging in time reporting which sometime means that the previous time reporting shows up later and adds up to the current month . This is actually true for most of our activities that the time reporting is lagging. I don´t think this is unusual.
We announced the withdrawal in January
For WP 5 Thierry should I have been told by our people that we have not really reported so much time as we could have in general. I believe Thierry is aware of it. End of last year there quite a lot of support of Telecom Italia for a demo and integration on the cloud infrastructure.
For WP 9 we had further development and bug-fixing of the catalogue but also a lot of support to users, preparations of webinars and actual execution of them Documentation and competence transfer to UPM .
For WP 10 we contributed on some of the deployment.
I don't believe we are blocking anything but you need to have explicit consent by us for any amendment.
I hope this answers the questions
BR
Henrik
From: JAVIER DE PEDRO SANCHEZ [mailto:jdps at tid.es]
Sent: den 15 april 2013 11:36
To: Henrik Abramowicz
Cc: JUAN JOSE HIERRO SUREDA; LUIS GARCIA GARCIA; subsidies at tid.es<mailto:subsidies at tid.es>
Subject: FI-WARE: Withdrawal of Ericsson. (*** VERY IMPORTANT & URGENT ***)
Importance: High
Dear Henrik, as Coordinator we cannot accept your proposal, and for last time, I would ask you again to reconsider your situation to avoid sending this information to Commission in order to solve the blocking of the amendment 4.
1.- Coordinator and Chief Architect, and WPLs knows that Ericsson withdraws the project after review M18.
2.- It is no legal to declare 1,7 PM of Jakob Saros on Dec 12. If he has worked full time, it should be 1 PM. Please check your recording systems because this is a fatal error in an audit.
3.- It is no legal to declare 1,5 PM of Vlasios Tsiatsis on Dec 12. If he has worked full time, it should be 1 PM. Again, please check your recording systems because this is a fatal error in an audit.
4.- We have checked WPL and they don't agree with the Ericsson's contribution from November 12 you said.
* FT says as coordinator of WP5 that "They cannot validate around 3 months without any contribution to a deliverable and no new software release."
* E-IIS says as coordinator of WP9 that "I do confirm that since Nov 12 the only work done was related to the take over of the catalogue by UPM".
* E-IIs says as coordinator of WP10 that "No effort provided in the concerned period".
5.- You have been receiving all the e-mail about the complex amendments where is implicit the withdrawal of Ericsson an you have no said nothing against.
6.- Regarding your current declared effort:
[cid:part9.05030804.07080402 at tid.es]
That means that there could be up to 2,6 PM to compensate/minimize the impact of your unilateral withdrawal from the project and could be explained because Ericsson has been involved in some minor tasks too, so if this is true, you could claim these costs.
Although I and WPL have asked you, you have no provided any information about the carried out work since November 2012 to December 2012, so, I think these costs will be rejected by Commission.
7.- Last by not least, as you know (it is stated in the documentation provided in the amendment), there are other partners who are going to receive the remaining budget in order to carry out the work. The project will have a big problem if the new committed budget has to be negotiated again.
Please, let me know if you agree. Please, I would like you to answer us today.
Note: If you agree, I kindly ask you again to provide the requested withdrawal letter by tomorrow.
BR
Javier.
De: Henrik Abramowicz [mailto:henrik.abramowicz at ericsson.com]
Enviado el: viernes, 12 de abril de 2013 16:53
Para: JAVIER DE PEDRO SANCHEZ
CC: subsidies at tid.es<mailto:subsidies at tid.es>; Alen Jusufbasic; Magnus Karlsson E; Anders Caspár; JUAN JOSE HIERRO SUREDA; thierry.nagellen at orange.com<mailto:thierry.nagellen at orange.com>; Andrea Manieri (manieri at eng.it<mailto:manieri at eng.it>); 'stefano.depanfilis at eng.it<mailto:stefano.depanfilis at eng.it>' (stefano.depanfilis at eng.it<mailto:stefano.depanfilis at eng.it>)
Asunto: RE: FI-WARE: Withdrawal of Ericsson. (*** VERY IMPORTANT & URGENT ***)
Dear all,
Please also find the breakdown of Person Months per month as requested which means that no work was performed in 2013
BR
Henrik
PM/WP
WP 5
WP 9
WP 10
TOTAL
Henrik Abramowicz Total
0,0
0,0
0,0
0,0
Nov 12
Dec 12
Jan 13
Jakob Saros Total
2,7
2,7
Nov 12
0,9
Dec 12
1,7
Jan Höller Total
0,1
0,1
Dec 12
0,1
John Sandberg Total
1,2
1,2
Nov 12
0,9
Dec 12
0,3
Marika Stålnacke Total
0,2
0,4
0,5
Nov 12
0,2
0,3
Dec 12
0,1
Torgny Johansson Total
0,5
0,5
Nov 12
0,3
Dec 12
0,2
Vlasios Tsiatsis Total
1,5
1,5
Dec 12
1,5
Total
4,2
1,8
0,4
6,4
From: JAVIER DE PEDRO SANCHEZ [mailto:jdps at tid.es]
Sent: den 12 april 2013 15:50
To: Henrik Abramowicz
Cc: subsidies at tid.es<mailto:subsidies at tid.es>; Alen Jusufbasic; Magnus Karlsson E; Anders Caspár; JUAN JOSE HIERRO SUREDA; thierry.nagellen at orange.com<mailto:thierry.nagellen at orange.com>; Andrea Manieri (manieri at eng.it<mailto:manieri at eng.it>); 'stefano.depanfilis at eng.it<mailto:stefano.depanfilis at eng.it>' (stefano.depanfilis at eng.it<mailto:stefano.depanfilis at eng.it>)
Subject: RE: FI-WARE: Withdrawal of Ericsson. (*** VERY IMPORTANT & URGENT ***)
Henrik, I understand that you are talking about November 2012, and that means that you didn't work later in FI-WARE project.
If not, please let me know.
Please provide justifications of this effort.
BR
Javier.
De: Henrik Abramowicz [mailto:henrik.abramowicz at ericsson.com]
Enviado el: viernes, 12 de abril de 2013 15:38
Para: JAVIER DE PEDRO SANCHEZ
CC: subsidies at tid.es<mailto:subsidies at tid.es>; Alen Jusufbasic; Magnus Karlsson E; Anders Caspár; JUAN JOSE HIERRO SUREDA; thierry.nagellen at orange.com<mailto:thierry.nagellen at orange.com>; Andrea Manieri (manieri at eng.it<mailto:manieri at eng.it>); 'stefano.depanfilis at eng.it<mailto:stefano.depanfilis at eng.it>' (stefano.depanfilis at eng.it<mailto:stefano.depanfilis at eng.it>)
Asunto: RE: FI-WARE: Withdrawal of Ericsson. (*** VERY IMPORTANT & URGENT ***)
Dear Javier et al
I got these figures from our controller below
Hope this helps
BR
Henrik
WP 5
WP 9
WP 10
TOTAL
Henrik Abramowicz Total
0
0
0
0,0
Jakob Saros Total
2,7
0
2,7
Jan Höller Total
0,1
0
0,1
John Sandberg Total
0
1,2
1,2
Marika Stålnacke Total
0
0,2
0,4
0,5
Torgny Johansson Total
0
0,5
0,5
Vlasios Tsiatsis Total
1,5
0
1,5
Total
4,2
1,8
0,4
6,4
From: JAVIER DE PEDRO SANCHEZ [mailto:jdps at tid.es]
Sent: den 12 april 2013 15:36
To: Henrik Abramowicz
Cc: subsidies at tid.es<mailto:subsidies at tid.es>; Alen Jusufbasic; Magnus Karlsson E; Anders Caspár; JUAN JOSE HIERRO SUREDA; thierry.nagellen at orange.com<mailto:thierry.nagellen at orange.com>; Andrea Manieri (manieri at eng.it<mailto:manieri at eng.it>); 'stefano.depanfilis at eng.it<mailto:stefano.depanfilis at eng.it>' (stefano.depanfilis at eng.it<mailto:stefano.depanfilis at eng.it>)
Subject: RE: FI-WARE: Withdrawal of Ericsson. (*** VERY IMPORTANT & URGENT ***)
Importance: High
Dear Henrik, we need to close this by Monday because it is blocking the amendment 4.
Please, before sending your data to Coordinator, I kindly ask you to get a consensus with each WPL, in CC.
WP5 (FT) -> Thierry Nagallen
WP9, WP10 (E-IIS) -> Andrea Manieri & Stefano de Panfilis.
As I told you, the current information is that Ericsson finished its contribution to FI-WARE project on M18, October 2012.
Dear WPL, Ericsson says that they have been contributing to FI-WARE project since November 2012 as follows:
WP 5 440 hours
Wp 9 131,75 hours
Wp 10 97 hours
I kindly ask you to let us know if you agree, after Ericsson has been provided the requested information in attached e-mail.
BR
Javier.
De: JAVIER DE PEDRO SANCHEZ
Enviado el: viernes, 12 de abril de 2013 12:33
Para: 'Henrik Abramowicz'
CC: subsidies at tid.es<mailto:subsidies at tid.es>; Alen Jusufbasic; Magnus Karlsson E; Anders Caspár; JUAN JOSE HIERRO SUREDA
Asunto: RE: FI-WARE: Withdrawal of Ericsson. (*** VERY IMPORTANT ***)
Importancia: Alta
Henrik, please send your contribution in PM by month and by WP since November 1st, 2012, providing the justification of the work carried out.
It will be sent to WPL and Juanjo to be reviewed.
This is very urgent.
BR
Javier.
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