[Fiware-wpa] [Fiware-wpl] Thoughts and proposed action points from Educational Session Week

Davide Dalle Carbonare davide.dallecarbonare at eng.it
Fri May 25 11:08:27 CEST 2012


Dear Juanjo,

that just say that I agree with your impressions as we already had time
to share them ...

I agree also with the actions you proposed especially for collecting
information from the UC projects.

cheers,
Davide

On 24/05/2012 16:27, Juanjo Hierro wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   These are my first thoughts and proposed action points based on 
> experience during this educational sessions week, as an input to our 
> confcall tomorrow.
>
>   First my impressions:
>
>   * UC projects exhibit different level of progress.   Regarding
>     Architecture Design of their solutions, some of them are still in
>     a very high-level.
>   * There are some cases where it is clear that the FI-WARE GEs nicely
>     fit in the proposed Architecture.   This was rather clear in
>     InstantMobility and Oustmart (though the described architecture
>     was rather high-level).  Also in Finseny to some extend
>   * The educational session have been useful to improve the
>     understanding by attendees from UC projects.   Now they realize
>     that there is concrete stuff to analyze.
>   * There is a common agreement that the communication hasn't been
>     very much productive so far because there was no real stuff to
>     discuss about from neither of the two sides:
>       o FI-WARE hadn't produce the Architecture Description nor the
>         Open Specifications so therefore UC projects could not refine
>         very much their requests on features to be supported by
>         FI-WARE GEs
>       o UC projects hadn't produce Architecture Deliverables we could
>         inspect to point out areas where mapping between enablers
>         identified by UC projects and FI-WARE GEs have to be investigated
>       o now, we have this stuff in both side so that is the time to
>         push from both sides
>   * Some UC projects claimed that some sessions run parallel so they
>     couldn't attend both.   Don't know whether we can find a solution
>     for this.
>   * More attendance on those sessions linked to FI-WARE GEs that
>     provide APIs that UC programmers have to use (Apps, IoT,
>     Data/Context and Security chapters)
>
>
>   Then, the actions I believe we have to carry out and propose:
>
>   * Action-1: We have to officially ask all UC projects to share any
>     documentation they may have regarding their Architecture, and do
>     it inmediately.
>   * Action-2: We have to document and be able to monitor progress of
>     our communication, so using a tracker system is still the right
>     thing to do.   However, we have to decide which one (or define a
>     new one).   My proposal would be not to use the "FI-WARE
>     Theme/Epic/Feature Requests" but the "FI-WARE General Support"
>     tracker because it will more agile.   Use of the tracker would be
>     bidirectional, so that we can open tickets on UC projects.
>   * Action-3: Each FI-WARE chapter should carefully study the
>     Architecture documentation by UC projects (available after
>     Action-1) to find the places where they believe there is an
>     opportunity of using FI-WARE GEs that should be explored, then
>     open the proper tickets on the UC projects to launch the
>     discussion.   Note that discussion doesn't need then to be carried
>     out always off-line.   Chapters should be ready to setup
>     confcalls, f2f meetings, whatever when necessary.
>   * Action-4: We will re-inforce the role of the dedicated team (in
>     this case, Carlos and Axel) that has to push Action-3 first, and
>     then follow-up progress and push communication afterwards.   
>     Creation of a dashboard that allows us to monitor progress will be
>     key.
>   * Action-5: Communication between the UC projects and the FI-WARE
>     chapters may lead to the need to support new features in existing
>     FI-WARE GEs, define new FI-WARE GEs, etc.   These case should lead
>     to creation of a ticket in the "FI-WARE Theme/Epic/Feature
>     Requests" backlog but, this time, the description of what is
>     required will be much more concrete and well understood from both
>     sides
>
>
>   Last but not least, some reflections regarding usage of the tracker:
>
>   * I don't know if you agree, but the presentation by people from
>     InstantMobility was probably the best one from the UC projects,
>     among other things because you could see this guy was a rather
>     technical person.   After the meeting, I had the opportunity to
>     talk with him and he told me that he though that a tracker was
>     what programmers like to use and only people who deals with
>     paperwork hate them.   I tend to agree.   It is not the tracker
>     what may fail but the people who is around who has to commit in
>     doing the work
>   * We need to document things for the reviews, like it or not.   The
>     tracker will allow us to do this without problems.
>   * We need to be able to monitor progress in order to detect when
>     things are malfunctioning and put remedy actions.   You need
>     something like a tracker to do that as well.
>   * Even most important than the previous: we should not forget that
>     FI-WARE will be extended so that may app developers will try to
>     use it after year 2.   And there, on-line communication is not
>     going to scale (despite we may organize events like the
>     "Programmers' Days" and stuff like that).   We have to formalize a
>     process and accompany them with toos, using phase 1 and first part
>     of Phase 2 of the FI-PPP to test them (taking advantage there will
>     be a limited number of projects then)
>
>
>   Your own feedback/comment is welcome.
>
> -- Juanjo
>
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