ABC Reporting Project

Status Status of
for period 12/1/2001 to 12/31/2001
Life Cycle Phase: Code and Unit Test Johnston McLamb
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Project Description Project Status Project Team
Phase I -- Develop 15 Business Objects reports for the Activity Based Project Lead Bill Knecht
Costing (ABC) system. This will provide ABC users with ready access to G Schedule Customer USPS
data about the cost of processing mail at processing centers nationwide.
G Resource
Requirements for these reports are described in detail in the ABC For a complete list of members see Resources
Requirements document and ABC Report Layouts. Budget
G
Resources

Schedule and Budget Summary -- Phase I, first 5 reports

Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Remaining
Unit Description Start Date Start Date End Date End Date Hours Hrs Hrs Phase Status
Project Management 11/7/2001 11/7/2001 12/28/2001 80 84.25
Planning/Analysis 11/13/2001 11/13/2001 11/26/2001 11/30/2001 76 ### 126 0 Closed
Design Phase 11/19/2001 11/19/2001 12/7/2001 12/7/2001 236 ### 132 0 Closed
Code & Unit Test 11/27/2001 11/29/2001 12/28/2001 12/31/2001 160 ### 140 0 Open
Acceptance Test 12/20/2001 1/2/2002 12/28/2001 40 ### 0 0 Open
Implementation 12/28/2001 12/28/2001 15 ### 0 0 Open
Quality Assurance 0 ### 0 0 Open

Total Hours 527 ### 398 0

Actions or Comments:
Customer is planning to modify the work order to allow more time for review and QA of first 5 reports, to allow an
additional month for the 2nd 5 reports, and to postpone the 3rd 5 reports until Phase II. They felt the schedule was too
aggressive and did not allow them enough time to incorporate feed back into the first set of reports.

*Contains labor costs and other material costs detailed in estimate.

Last Period's Accomplishments Current Period's Plan

Completed the design of the cross reference tables and data mart tables.
Populated these tables in the development environment. Worked with the
customer to finalize requirements for the first five reports. Developed,
tested, and gained customer acceptance of the aggregation routines.
Developed the first five reports.
Publish first five reports in the staging environment so that customers can
review the reports and get feedback. Incorporate feedback into the reports.
Finalize requirements for the second five reports. Begin development of the
second five reports.

Project Risks/Issues See Project Log

Issue
It will be very time consuming and inefficient to respond to requests for
changes from all the people who review the reports
Number of users at peak load times could be more than the B.O. server can
support.
Resolution
Have one person on the ABC team (Cathy Ruth suggested) who will
gather all change requests, determine the ones to go forward with, and
communicate them to JMCS.
Obtain hardware to support the expected number of users.

NOTE: Project changes identified after approval of this agreement, which affect the estimated hours, costs or schedule will be re-negotiated as to the project impacted and incorporated into this
tracking document for re-distribution and sign-off.

11/09/2017