EVS Focus Meeting Minutes - 13 August 2014

Attendees

#	Assigned	Description	Date Identified	Due Date	Date Completed	Status
	Mayo/Jason	We have run into multiple issues where the performance on the DEV tier has be a problem due to Mayo not being able to replicate the slow points due to the drastic difference in DEV resources. We discuss this with the systems team and they requested us to put in a DRT ticket that provides the specs to match the Mayo DEV server.	08/30/13		7/16/2014	A new development server has been procured and is currently being setup. This AI will be closed.

Area of Interest	Details
LexEVS 6.2	The container have been created but waiting for the AntHillPro setup. Mayo setup a SSD on their development server to test out performance with SSD drives on the indexes. Mayo is updating the test scripts.
Report Writer	We spoke with Larry Brem yesterday for the impact of removing the caCORE components from the Report Writer. We are looking at removing the user login and access control from the Report Writer application and just focus on supporting it for operations team use. This would significantly lower the effort.
Term Browser	Troubleshooting an issue where the Term Browser will not come up with the new data release. Continued work of the 2.6 release items. The containers are still being worked on for the new development environment. Systems team said it should be completed by the end of the week. Confirmed there will be a separate DEV and QA environment. Put in a DRT ticket for the QA tier.
Meta Download Validation App	Deployment to production has been completed. We may need to revert to the old site because permission to update the CBIIT website have been taken away.
Term Suggestion Form	The containers are still being worked on for the new development environment.
NCIm Browser	The containers are still being worked on for the new development environment. Created a new tag for QA: 2014-07-23.1-v2.5.

Issue Number	Description	Status
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#	Description	Due Date	Resources	Notes	Risks	Mitigation

Area of Interest	Details
Term Browser 2.6 Release	Continue design activities for new feature requests
NCIm Browser 2.5 Release	Deployment to the DEV tier.
Term Browser 2.5 Release	Deployment to the DEV tier.
Term Form 2.4 Release	Deployment to the DEV tier.

#	Opened Date	Due Date	Description	Likelihood (H, M, L)	Impact	Assigned	Status	Mitigation Strategy
	04/10/14		Deployments have been taking long periods of time. There is a lot of overhead getting through the iters	H	H		Speaking with members of the QA team to find ways to streamline the testing/deployment process	Finding ways to better integrate the development and QA team. Spoke to EVS Tools TPM requesting the correct communication channels.

Opened Date	Description	Impact	Status
7/17/2014	Deployment of software, even small upgrades, have been a lengthy process.	This especially affects smaller releases in which there are security or bug fixes.	Looking to implement more agile practices. Met with Suzette Johnson from NG to get an overview the Agile Framework to see where is can apply to EVS.