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Proposed agenda for Mike's second meeting with Rod Aiming for a meeting
in December 2002.
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Overview
Feedback on the analysis I sent to you and Gary What are your thoughts
on the following:
.. Rewriting the two documents: POIMS and Communication Metrics Rod, what's
your response to my suggestion of rewriting these documents?
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Conversation on status of SDS project
Rod, I'd like to hear how things are progressing regarding SDS. As you
know, I'm interested in what you've come up with, and would love to see
it advanced beyond your own personal use.
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Brief report on the status of my own web application for
collaborative writing
To catch you up on what I've accomplished in the past half-year, and
some key lessons that I've learned along the way.
There are so many ideas in SDS that are worthy of
re-implementing elsewhere Ease-of-use will be important.
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Porting SDS to another environment is, essentially, a
rewrite There's no such thing as an application "port" that
involves changing programming environments. These are called
application "rewrites".
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A rewrite should progress in small steps Modern software
development usually involves continuous incremental
improvement through a series of many low-risk goals, rather
than large ambitious projects.
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No one person can do it themselves You're talking about a
multi-person project.
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Recouping on investment is challenging Covering the costs of
creating such software applications is challenging.
Profiting is even more difficult.
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Few people have such a practical vision of information
management But how to exploit it?
Meet with Eric Armstrong for his perspective Eric has offered to
serve as a sounding board for ideas on how I should direct my
focus to exploit the technology I've developed.
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Gain user base Goal is to get to 25 users who have logged in 25
times. Product can then be called successful, and worthy of
following through on a business plan. Until then, it's all talk.