EUROCONTROL
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eDEP User Group
EUROCONTROL
eDEP Users Group: minutes of first meeting
9 June 2008
Attendees José SEIXO
:
Mohamed ELLEJMI
Vladimir BUBALO
Stéphane DUBUISSON
Leo VAN DER HOORN
Marc GRAVIS
Gerard RAMBAUD
Alan FOWLER
Jan SCHOLZ
Christopher COSTELLOE
Mike VERE
Mike BALLONE
Apologies Hervé PARVAIS
:
Karim ZEGHAL
Bogdan PETRICEL
Christopher BRAIN
Dan ROBERTS
Gary KING
Laurent GUICHARD
Sandrine GUIBERT
Author of Mohamed ELLEJMI
Minutes :
23 June 2008
EEC/RIF
EEC/RIF
RST
EEC/APT
EEC/AVT
EEC/AVT
EEC/AVT
CIMACT/LARA
CIMACT/LARA
FASTI
Graffica
Graffica
EEC/RIF
EEC/ATC
FASTI
FASTI
NATS
NATS
CATS
CATS
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Agenda
The following agenda was distributed by e-mail prior to the meeting:
Time
Item
09:30
10:00
Subject
Leader/Presenter
Arrival at EEC, reception, coffee
1
Welcome by RIF and introduction of all
participants
Hervé PARVAIS
José SEIXO
Mohamed ELLEJMI
10:10
2
ITWP Project
Stéphane DUBUISSON
Roger Lance
10:30
3
FASTI Project
PETRICEL Bogdan;
BRAIN Christopher;
COSTELLOE Christopher;
10:50
4
CIMACT and LARA Projects
SCHOLZ Jan;
FOWLER Alan;
11:10
5
AVT Project
VAN DER HOORN Leo;
GRAVIS Marc;
RAMBAUD Gerard
11:30
--- Coffee---
12:00
6
RST Project
BUBALO Vladimir;
12:20
7
Demo on HF Lab Platform
ELLEJMI Mohamed
13:00
14:00
--- Lunch --8
How eDEP is developed
Mike Vere
eDEP Users Group Synergy
Mike Ballone
Q&A session
15:15
15:40
--- Coffee--9
Road Map and Future development
Seixo José
ELLEJMI Mohamed
16:00
conclusions of the day
16:30
Return transport
All participants
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Approval of the Agenda
José opened the meeting welcoming the participants. Hervé, who was involved in
another urgent meeting, apologized and asked José to chair the meeting.
Participants introduced themselves, agenda was approved and the presentations
started.
You will find joined to the minutes the presentations of the different projects.
1. Project Presentation
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ITWP Presentation by Stéphane Dubuison,
FASTI project by Christopher COSTELLOE,
CIMACT and LARA projects by Alan FOWLER,
AVT project by Leo VAN DER HOORN and
RST project by Vladimir BUBALO
After the different presentations and due to time spent on questions and answers on
each presentation, it was decided to put the different demos at the end of the
meeting.
2. Graffica presentation
Graffica provided a presentation about:
- The company
- History of eDEP
- Current development
- Suggestions for eDEP User Group
3. eDEP core contract manager presentation
Mohamed presented the result of the previous contract in term of development and
EUROCONTROL investment.
He made the point on the actual contract and the different projects involved.
A presentation of how the contract is formulated was provided to the users
4. eDEP users Group objectives
After Mohamed presentation, José proposed a brainstorming session on the benefit
of eDEP Users Group.
Vladimir sees the UG as an opportunity to:
- coordinate the requirements and the developments: EEC as focal point for
developments
- ensure the continuation of the eDEP platform development
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learn from other projects how to improve training facilities with more advanced
systems.
Improve the knowledge of the platform capabilities
Vladimir suggests to make the requirements available via the website: change
request database available for all users. (see Vladimir presentation for benefits and
inconvenient of centralizing development)
For Stéphane, as ITWP will be used for the SESAR validation, the quality shall be an
issue to rise.
Leo stated that the eDEP user group provides a synergy with the other users such as
APT and can be used as a change control board.
Leo pointed out the following weaknesses:
- A catalog describing a description of eDEP capabilities is missing and he
suggested to share that eDEP catalog with the others users via the onesky
website for example.
- A lack of documents describing the operation (exploitation) part: configuration
files are not enough clear and detailed
- Same remark for airspace adaptation
- Missing a database to manage exercise data
Christy sees the users group as an opportunity to improve the relations and synergy
between different EUROCONTROL projects. He expects a better integration of
FASTI tools in eDEP. He wants eDEP process to remain “mean and lean”
Mike Ballone thinks that the users group:
- can provide an upfront information from projects
- synchronize the requirements
- manage the priorities
- ensure a good quality product while delivering requirements in a short time
- allow users to better share information about their projects.
His main concern is about timely requirements
For Graffica, there is a need to provide a window for the development to mitigate the
time pressure.
Jan considers the users group as a forum of feedback where the requirements are
shared and not developed twice.
He is concerned about potential lack of flexibility, reactivity (they were used to have
changes very quickly).
He aims to make their users happy and do not want to turn to the negative part
(source code not available, etc)
Alan put emphasis on the following points:
- How do users share information between projects?
- How do users manage requirements coming from different sources
- He requires robustness and safety
- He aims to be flexible (he admitted this is difficult to achieve)
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He wants to reduce individual project costs
Action
No
Person
responsible
Action to be taken
Status
Due Date
1
Mohamed
Create eDEP Users Group on
OneSky
Created
30/08/2008
5.
A.O.B.
No other issues were discussed during the meeting
6. Date and place of next meeting
It was decided to meet before the launching of next contract, the place and data were
not agreed
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1. Annex 1: Members references
Name/Forename
BUBALO Vladimir
Project
RST
DUBUISSON Stéphane
E-mail address
[email protected]
[email protected]
APT
LANE Roger
[email protected]
VAN DER HOORN Leo
[email protected]
GRAVIS Marc
AVT
RAMBAUD Gérard
[email protected]
[email protected]
SCHOLZ Jan;
[email protected]
CIMACT/LARA
FOWLER Alan
[email protected]
PARVAIS Hervé
[email protected]
SEIXO José
[email protected]
EEC
ELLEJMI Mohamed
[email protected]
PETRICEL Bogdan
[email protected]
BRAIN Christopher
[email protected]
FASTI
COSTELLOE Christopher
[email protected]
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