eRA Project Team Meeting
Date: March 13, 2001
Time: 9:00 am
Location: 6700B Rockledge, Room 1205

Next Meeting: March 27, 2001, 6700B Rockledge, Room 1205 at 9:00 a.m.

Announcements

Migration: John McGowan reported that the current problem with IMPAC II has been traced to an Oracle bug that causes problems. The bug causes a significant slowdown in a fairly routine process in the previous version of the software. Oracle has offered many solutions but not one we are willing to live with at this point. The have found a fix that speeds up the IRDB bridge. However, if the fix is used we would sacrifice in speed in the applications linked to the OLTP. We aren't ready to do that. We will keep you posted but since last week we have tried to minimize the impact of this on the user slowdowns. The problem is being worked.

Inside eRA: The team was asked to suggest topics and comment on proposed articles for Inside eRA. Pete Morton suggested that an article be prepared for the NIH Record.

Priorities
John McGowan previewed his presentation to the Steering Committee that aggregated priorities into "new development" and "ongoing" categories. Pete Morton suggested refining "ongoing" to distinguish between "continued development" and "ongoing activities". Group Advocates were asked to comment on whether the graphic represents their needs and if they agree. Advocates are committing to a long-term architecture.

Budget: In October, the Project Team will have an opportunity to make a mid-course correction of budgets for FY 2002.
Carol Martin requested a clearer picture of what is required of Group Advocates. JJ will send the team guidance which indicates dates, times, and instructions. Advocates are to create a list of needs with due dates, identify implementation teams, map back to original priority line items, and identify resource [staff] requirements and availability.

Implementation Plans: Priorities must be developed into business plans for the current budget that will actually be implemented in the out years.

Action Items:

1. Group Advocates need to develop implementation plans which map resources to priorities.

2. OER staff will work on preparing an article for NIH Record.

3. Send Thor and Eileen handouts.

Attendees:
John McGowan, Eileen Bradley *, Carlos Caban, Jim Cain, Megan Columbus, Krishna Collie, Zoe Ann C Sewell, Michael Cox, Bud Erickson, Thor Fjellstedt **, Ali Ghassemzadeh, Andy Greenleaf, Chip Groh, Marcia Hahn, Steve Hausman, Paul Markovitz, Carol Martin, Greg Milman, Bob Moore, Pete Morton, Bob Reifsnider, Wally Schaffer, Belinda Seto, Jay Silverman, Bobbi Spitzberg, Brent Stanfield, George Stone, Tim Twomey, Jim Tucker, Virginia Van Brunt

* phone
** video

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