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Minutes of Meeting
Uppgjord - Prepared
EPL/X/AX Anders Svensson 859-3116
Datum - Date
1998-03-24
Rev
A
Dokumentnr - Document no
1/0064-4/FCP 101 0211/1 Uen
Godkänd - Approved
EPL/X/AS (C. Israelsson)
Kontr - Checked
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Tillhör/referens - File/reference
fsv_smd_ko
                                           DELTA at LMEL:
                                           V52ML: MANAGEMENT: M_MIN

FSV+SMD Kickoff, V5.2ML/EPL Subproject

Meeting data

Time         Friday 1998-03-20, 13:00-16:00
Location     'Valen' at EPL in Umeå

Facilitators:
Carina Israelsson (V5.2 ML/EPL Design Leader)
Anders Svensson (V5.2 ML/EPL QI)

Participants:
All members in the FSV and SMD design of the V5.2 ML / EPL subproject
(except Anna Jernberger and Edvard Drake busy in PC-SSS reviews).
The EPL/X/AU 'guest line manager' Peter Juszt listened to the introduction (presentation and project organisation).

1   Introduction

1.1   Presentation of project members

Each project member gave a short personal presentation, as there were some new faces in the project.

1.2   Project organisation

Carina and Anders S. gave an improvised presentation about the project organisation (because Pär Edstedt became busy with the Telstra visit). Carina presented the V5.2 ML / EPL project organisation and the names of the persons in the V5.2 ML project management team. Anders S. presented the V5.2 ML connection to PDP Access and Polaris Integration.

1.3   Time plan

Carina presented the time plan for V5.2 ML, and we had a short discussion about summer vacations. Although the scope of this kickoff meeting was FSV and SMD only, we discussed the risk with the 'big bang' AD1 (planned 1998-07-17) in the midle of the vacation period in Sweden, because the planning of the BSD phase (including vacations) depends on the FSV+SMD planning. The designers are worried that there woun't be much freedom to choose when to have their summer vacation.

2   Status of the Feasibility phase

The V5.2 ML Technical Coordinator, Patrik Jonsson, presented the status and preliminary conclusion of the Feasibility phase:

IP status
15 of 22 IPs will be technically approved at the end of March.
For more details, see [MS2].
Size
The amount of work in Feasibility consumed approx. 12.000 manhours.
Doc. Q
All IPs exited from the EPL Inspection Process at the first inspection.

Patrik also took the opportunity to thank the IP authors for their efforts and splendid results during the Feasibility phase.


3   CM and signal coordination

The V5.2 ML CM, Roland Vallgren, presented CM in V5.2 ML / EPL and signal coordination in Polaris in general.

3.1   Signal Coordination

SSI Cord
The SSI Coordinator in Polaris is John Ludvigsen (ETXT.ETXJML).
POL-SIG
The SSI for designing SDs in Polaris is named 'POL-SIG'.
POL-SWU
The SSI for generating SSs in Polaris is named 'POL-SWU'.

All designers preparing FFSLs and SDs shall read the very useful Polaris directive [SIG DIR].

3.2   DELTA

The Delta system used in the V5.2 ML is named 'V52ML' and it is administrated by Roland. The general document status notations are PREL, RFINS, EDITED, CHKD, TAPP, STFDOC, APPR and CANC. The EDITED and CHKD status notations match the EPL Inspection process. In addition to these general status notations there may be specific status notations for specific document types.

Roland will distribute authority to delete documents from Delta to one design leader or test leader per LDC. For EPL this will probably be Carina.

3.3   CR handling

CR Tool II [CR Tool] will be used for CR handling in V5.2 ML. (There will soon be a link from the V5.2 ML / CM web page to this WWW-based tool.) The series when preparing a new CR:

Access
POLARIS -> ACCESS
V5.2 ML
POLARIS -> V52ML

3.4   CVS

We discussed different solutions for a CVS structure on our local project disk. We decided that Roland shall create a team based CVS structure for the FSV+SMD phase.


4   Team Assignments

Carina distributed and presented the Team Assignment [TEAM_ASS]. Each team discussed their assignment and selected a Team Leader and discussed the need for expert help outside their team:

4.1   Team 1 'Administration'

Team Leader
Pär Rudälv
Åsa Eriksson
Anna Jernberger
Anna Mellström

Team 1 wants help from Björn Edlund 1h/week.

4.2   Team 2 'C-channel handling'

Team Leader
Håkan Omnell
Björn Edlund
Jerry Eriksson
Monica Willman

4.3   Team 3 'Tone sending'

Team Leader
Staffan Öhman
Edvard Drake
Anders Jansson
Ernesto Garcia Veloz

Team 3 may need extra help from Peter Bäckman regarding LIV5 block issues.

4.4   Team 4 'Link handling'

Team Leader
Peter Bäckman
Nicklas Hilmersson
Gunnar Strand
Leonardo Garcia Veloz

5   Quality aspects

Anders Svensson presented some general quality aspects and the most important quality issues for the FSV and SMD phase:

Competence
Anders stated that the parameter affecting quality most:
The competence of the project members.
The competence seems good as many project members have prepared the IP/FFs on which the work is based.
QI role
The role of the QI (Quality Engineer) is to:
Maximize the quality (of the product and the project) with the resources we get, by collecting idéas and developing strategies.
Signal consequences of lack of resources to the EPL/X/A line management and the V5.2 ML project management team.
Debate
The QI is dependent of an open debate climate about quality
(i.e. reviews, inspections, requirement traceability, documentation, technical solutions)
Mutual
We need a mutual exchange of review competence between designers and testers for FFs, FSs, FDs and TS/TDs.
Tracing
How do we document the requirement traces?
(RS -> IS -> IP/FF -> FS -> TS/TD)
Anders will soon arrange a local workshop at EPL for this issue.
RI plan
There will be a local Review and Inspection plan on the webpage.
Contains dates, cost estimates and support from remote LDCs (FDs, SDs).
Source doc. in CVS and SGML converted to HTML.

6   Glossary

CM
Configuration Management
CR
Change Request
FSV
Function Specification and Validation
For more details, see [MEDAX]
QI
Quality Engineer
SD
Signal Description
A document type stored in Sigma
SMD
System Module Design
For more details, see [MEDAX]
SS
Signal Survey
SSI
Source System Issue
A concept in Sigma, the signal database.

7   References

CR Tool
'CR Tool II'
http://greed.xt.etx.ericsson.se/xt/ChangeRequestII/
MEDAX
'PN Standard Processes'
ETX/PN/XS-97:0355 Uen
http://pn.ericsson.se/x_s/syspm/dpm/POLARIS/polarlib/MedaxNavigator/ETX_PN_XS-97:0355UEN/frames.html
MS2
'MS2 Review for V5.2 ML'
5/0062-4/FCP 101 0211 Uen
DELTA at LMEL:
V52ML: MANAGEMENT: M_MILEST
SIG DIR
'Signal Design and Signal Coordination within the Polaris Project'
22/0304-FCP 101 0168 Uen
http://www.tn.etx.ericsson.se/projects/polaris/docs/signal.htm
TEAM_ASS
'Team Assignment for V5.2 ML FSV & SMD at EPL'
1/0062-4/FCP 101 0211/1 Uen, Rev A
DELTA at LMEL:
V52ML: MANAGEMENT: M_GEN