Preparing for the
Launch
Mohammed ElAffendi
Launch Major Tasks
 The Launch is performed according to
script “LAU1”, table 3.1 in the book (page
39), and involve the following steps:
– Course overview by instructor
– Collect student information
– Sate the product objectives
– Form teams and assign roles
Launch Major Tasks
 Set team and member goals
 Explain how team meetings are conducted
(purpose, scheduling and reporting)
 Team leaders hold the first meeting
 The planning manager reviews for the team
the data required from every member every
week, and the reports to be generated
Goal Setting
 It is important to set goals for the whole
team and for individual members. Three
types of goals are expected:
– Team goals
– Member goals
– Role goals
 The goals should be measurable
 See pages 30-37 in the book
Roles: The Team Leader
 Lead meetings.
 Review agenda.
 Make sure that the meeting achieves its
goals.
 Assess risks.
 Report to instructor.
Development Manager:
 Criteria for an effective strategy.
 Conceptual design.
 Propose and evaluate alternative strategies.
 Allocate functions to each cycle.
 How to subdivide and then integrate the
product.
Quality Manager:
 Document the strategy criteria.
 Document the strategy.
 Document the meeting.
Planning Manager:
 Size and time estimates for all the current
cycle products.
 Rough estimates for the products of
subsequent cycles.
Support Manager:
 Identify the configuration control board
and procedures.
 Specify any needed support tools and
facilities.
 Reviews the procedures with the team
members for their agreement.
Weekly Meetings
 Fix a weekly time and place for team
meetings
 Follow the week script (table 3.5), page 44
to conduct meetings
 Before the meeting update your personal
TASK and SCHEDULE forms and
summarize them in the WEEK form (table
3.6)
Weekly Meetings
 The most important purpose of the meeting
is to gather and analyze team’s data for the
prior week and the development cycle to
data
 All engineers must submit individual data
to the planning manager who compiles
team WEEK, TASK and SCHEDULE
forms
Preparation for meetings:
 Each engineer should fill and submit to the
planning manager the WEEK, TASK and
SCHEDULE forms.
 Planning manager prepares the weekly
status report from the individual reports.
 Meeting agenda has been issued.
The First Meeting
 Discuss Roles: Every member should be
aware about his role
 Discuss cycle 1 goals
 Set a weekly time and place for meetings
 Agree on a time to submit the required data
to the planning manager
Project Notebook
 Establish a project Notebook for the team
using recommendations in appendix G.
 The team leader is responsible for
maintaining the notebook
Some Forms
 TSPi Weekly Status Reports.doc
 TSPi Task Planning Template.doc
 TSPi Schedule Planning Template.doc