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Subject: Staff meeting today, Wednesday 3pm
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:44:37 -0700
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Thread-Topic: Staff meeting today, Wednesday 3pm
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From: "Jay Michlin" <jay.michlin@onstor.com>
To: "dl-Software" <dl-software@onstor.com>
Cc: "Jerry Lopatin" <jerry.lopatin@onstor.com>

Hi,

FYI, here are two topics I'd like to spend some time on during our
weekly staff meeting today:

1. Delorean -- what went wrong?
Brian will update us on the current status of the project. It has
slipped quite a bit. But worse, it has slipped progressively, with
little visibility into what has been behind the problems and when we can
actually expect it to be done.

When this occurs in a project we owe it to ourselves to learn from the
experience. I don't claim to know all the answers, and I'm definitely
not critical of any of your work or personal commitment. But I seek your
opinions and insight into what happened overall, and what we as a SW
Development organization can learn from the experience to improve for
the future.

2. The SW Development Blackberry
We all carry the Blackberry for 1-week stints (I don't carry the SW
Development Blackberry, but when Caeli is absent I rotate carrying the
management Blackberry). We ought to reach a point where this is not
necessary, but today there is not much alternative. Customer Support
people may be faced with a crisis at any time, and they need the
assurance that at least someone with technical skill in SW Development
will try to help them.

Still, carrying the Blackberry is a chore, and it may face us with
technical questions beyond our personal knowledge. So I'd like to
discuss together what is expected, what to do, and generally how to
handle this.

Thanks, and I hope to see you at 3:00 today.

jay
