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1. Unit Test Schedule? - SF3 Upgrade will not complete until this evening & SF2 by tomorrow evening or Wednesday morning. - Impact?
   •  Update to SF3 should be completed tonight by 10:00pm.
   • SPAU - generate tonight. 
   • Tomorrow am.  Rich K. will apply SAP notes. Should take 2hrs
     • When can SPAU & action log activities begin? - Other prep. activities? (interfaces, queued data files, etc.)
       • Mods and SPAU also will start Tuesday a.m. and complete by 3:00 pm 
     • How many days are required for UNIT test / from where in the plan do we subtract the time?
       • The project plan's schedule can not be changed. We must complete unit testing by Monday 11/9.
       • SF2 will be available for testing on Wednesday by aproximatly 11:00 am
2. Unit test execution SF2
   • SF3 was offered as an alternative environment to begin unit testing however the prep.(i.e. authorizations), results logging, and issue resolution were reasons to keep unit testing confined to one system.
   • SF2 update should be completed by late Tuesday or early Wednesday (8:00 a.m.)
   • A Check-in with the core team is scheduled for Tuesday at 3:00 to confirm we are on track.
   •  Wednesday a.m. activites for SF2:
     •  Transports from SPAU work, BSI transports ~1hr#* **{*}The action log will be executed (1 - 2hrs)*
     •  Unit test start - 11am Wednesday (original scheduled to start Tue 8am - planned duration was 5 days has now been cut to 3 days)
       • Consolidated list will be split up by teams.  Each team will update their spreadsheet with Pass/Fail Results
       • Daily updates required - If updated spreadsheets can not be posted to the Wiki daily, a percentage complete should be communicated to the PM and the end of each day. Core team check-in meetings are scheduled for 3:00 PM. on Wed., Thur., & Fri this week. The plan is to test on Saturday unless status for each group is on target to completed on time without weekend testing.
       • Issues/Errors must be logged in the SAP:: Test Issues queue, email = saptest@help.mit.edu.
       • The spreadsheets will be the official test log - Results (pass/fail) and testers name must be filled in for completion of this test phase
3. Time Sheets
   • There is a steering committee mtg this Wednesday
   • We need to stay current with our time allocated to this project
   • confirm that SAIS project team members have project related tasks assigned in Daptive
4. Testers
   • SAIS should have their same authorizations in SF2. Let, Ken know if there are additional authorizations needed.
   • We are looking for the complete list of business testers for UAT and the names of those who would need to be unlocked for SIT.
5. December 24th Institute holiday - was to be the 1st day for resuming normal transports. Can this change to the 23rd?
   •  Freeze will be lifted 12/29 due to institute closing on 12/24. Payroll pension 12/22, Weekly is 12/22 & Monthly 12/23 we will consider transports for the 22nd only if there is a pressing reason.

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• Background
  • Why do we do this?  - "Because we have need to!"
  • Lessons learned
  • What's new?
• Progress to date:
  • SF2 Development Environment Support & Enhancement Packs were applied and pre-processing steps completed on 11/5/09
  • Unit Testing completed on 11/7/09
  • Issues
    • 16 logged issues 
      • 2 severe - defect is to critical business process that impacts a majority of system users 
      • 5 high - defect is to critical business process that impacts a specific business area or function 
      • 2 medium -defect is to either a non-critical function or alternative processes exist 
      • 7 low - defect may not be attributed to support pack updates and/or can not be reproduced
• Schedule

  November 2009

November  16, 2009 Core Team

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