1 Introduction
This plan covers the content and enablement portions of the EPF 1.0 project. A separate plan covers the tooling
component.
2 Project Organization
See also: http://www.eclipse.org/epf/
The work is divided into a number of content areas. Each content area is lead by a committer that is the content lead,
working closely with a number of committers and contributors. The content lead is responsible for making sure that bugs
and enhancement requests are triaged and assigned, and responsible for updating the project burndown (status) on a
weekly basis.
We also have a content architect (Ricardo Balduino), who is responsible for the overall structure and integration of
content from all content areas.
The work is divided into the following content areas:
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Project management: Chris Armstrong (lead), Jochen Krebs, Per Kroll
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Requirements: Chris Sibbald (lead), Paul Bramble, Ana Paula Valente Pereira, Leonardo Medeiros, Kurt Sand, Bruce
MacIsaac, Jim Ruehlin, Ricardo Balduino, and others.
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Change management: Chris Sibbald (lead), Kurt Sand, and others.
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Development: Brian Lyons (lead), Scott Ambler, Ricardo Balduino, and others.
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Architecture: Mark Dickson (lead), Jim Ruehlin, Ana Pereira, Chris Doyle, and others.
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Test: Brian Lyons (lead), Nate Oster, Jeff Smith, Dana Spears, and others.
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General: Steve Adolph (lead),
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Developer outreach: Per Kroll / Naveena Bereny (leads), Ricardo Balduino, Scott Ambler, Kurt Sand, and others.
3 Project Practices and Measurements
The OpenUP component team will use OpenUP practices adapted to address the fact that we are doing content development
rather than coding. Key artifacts include: Project Plan (Word), Work Item List (Bugzilla + Excel), Iteration Plan
(Word), and Status Assessment (Word).
Progress is tracked using two primary measurements using a point system. It is estimated that 1 point represents 2h of
work:
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Project backlog: The project backlog shows progress relative to overall work to be done within the project.
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Iteration backlog: The iteration backlog shows progress relative to work intended for the current iteration.
4 Project Milestones and Objectives
This section covers objectives for the entire EPF 1.0 project.
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Governance process in place, including guidelines for how to work with CVS
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Tutorials available to help people adopt EPF composer
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Process tools matured and usable to produce a broad set of processes and method content.
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Basic set of interfaces / APIs defined, stabilized, and delivered.
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Deliver basic printing capability.
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Mature content. Deliver a mature OpenUP, and beta quality of one or more other processes, whereof one should be
another agile process.
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Generate a high level of interest around EPF v1.0. Press releases, papers, tutorials, workshops, presentations,
etc.
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Identify a broader set of process champions with an interest to contribute to EPF within a specific domain, such as
MDA or project management, or a specific vertical such as telecom.
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Phase
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Iteration
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Primary Objective (risks and use cases scenarios)
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Scheduled start or milestone
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Duration Estimate (calendar days)
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Inception/ Warm-up
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M0
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Project acceptance and provisioning.
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IBM donation. Project environment established.
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Committer meeting. Project organization and plan agreed to.
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12/23/2005
1/15/2005
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24 days
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Elaboration
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M1
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Legal process to be completed by initial committers
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Train all committers.
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Provision project, set up website, mailing lists, etc.
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Agree on structure of OpenUP; agree on how to structure of OpenUP into work units, principles and
resources to evolve each unit.
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Identify outreach activities
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1/16/2006
2/28/2006
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43 days
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Elaboration
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M2
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Agree on naming conventions
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Agree to key structural information for OpenUP (e.g. tasks, work products, etc. defined)
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Engage with additional contributors
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Agree on user experience and have a few examples for OpenUP
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Validate extensibility / composibility of OpenUP
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3/1/2006
4/15/2006
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45 days
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Elaboration
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M3
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Identify an initial set of key promoters presenting at conferences, writing blogs and articles,
etc.
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Agree on general structure of OpenUP
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4/15/2006
5/31/2006
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45 days
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Construction
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M4
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Produce realistic plans for M5
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Agree on a management process
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Have all structural content decisions taken
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Have 30% of content ready for review
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Plan Agile2006, SD Best Practices, and other outreach activities
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6/1/2006
7/16/2006
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45 days
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Construction
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M5
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Finalize structure
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Improve usability and first impression
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Review 30% of content
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Make additional 30% of content available for review
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Establish a functioning management process for the project
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Establish a review board
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Produce initial draft collateral for EPF 1.0 launch
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Make preview at Agile 2006 successful
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Start to build a user community. Identify 2 pilot projects.
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7/17/2006
8/4/2006
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21 days
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Construction
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M6
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Improve usability and first impression
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Have 60% of content reviewed
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Make the final 40% of content available for review
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Produce more draft collateral for EPF 1.0 launch
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Continue building a user community
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8/7/2006
9/1/2006
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28 days
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Transition / End Game
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M7
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End game
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Finalize content 0.9
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Finalize launch collateral
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Plan next release
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9/4/2006
9/29/2006
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28 days
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5 Deployment
N/A.
6 Lessons Learned
N/A.
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