Management hoo-hah Created short list for DPG coordinator ( ) – Talked with several people to converge on the list – Tiziano now has the list and is going to chat with people/candidates Made Run Coordination organigrams – 6 distinct yet related areas, each with different lines of communication and responsibilities Level-1 manager Schedule coordinator (includes CMS Tech. Coord., LHC, commissioning) LHC interface Operations coordinator (includes commissioning, tools) Shift crews coordinator  the person who was [partially] doing this is leaving Detector Performance Groups coordinator – If I can write a clean job description of each part, it will be easier to… … delegate the tasks … request manpower 26 Aug 2013G. Rakness (UCLA)1

Found my mojo again… After ~1 month hiatus, working on control room again… Includes… – … input from CMS safety – … comments from the Technical Implementation Group – … workstations (with footprint) Managed to come up with proposal that fixes all problems, satisfies all constraints, and only involves moving around furniture we already have – Realized that in order to sell it, I need to make it cost $0.00 – Not sure if this means that I win, or they win… To be presented at… – Run Meeting tomorrow – TIG again – … then XEB… 26 Aug 2013G. Rakness (UCLA)2

To do Prepare Run Coordination talk for CMS Week in Taipei Follow up on… – VME PC replacement (subsystems) – Run Control improvements for 2015 (Hannes) Discuss with Christoph Schwick about... – How should we be planning to prepare for Run 2... starting now? Brainstorming session? Have each group assemble list of commissioning tasks? Recall what we did in ? All of the above? Pick up neutron note – Read it again… what all is left to be done? – Chad’s analysis documented here: Aug 2013G. Rakness (UCLA)3