1. A PPARC funded project PM Report AstroGrid Project Meeting Cambridge 27-28 April 2004

2. 2 27-Apr-2004Project Meeting: Project Manager Report Focus Itn05 comments Itn06 goals Development Process

3. 3 27-Apr-2004Project Meeting: Project Manager Report Iteration 05 Feb-Mar Main Goals Consolidate Itn04.1 code Add consistent and easy UI Deliver AVO Demo Produce comprehensive documentation Still not complete User impression Failed to deliver! So what have we got? …

4. 4 27-Apr-2004Project Meeting: Project Manager Report Itn05 Actuals Components which work But don’t fully interoperate See demos later Much better UI Eg Workflow, Micro-browser But still not intuitive (eg ‘append step’) Must get decent query builder Code-level documentation But no easy ‘way in’, ‘how do I?’ So what do we do? …

5. 5 27-Apr-2004Project Meeting: Project Manager Report Iteration 06 Starts here! May-Aug Deliver Itn06 goals Deploy Itn05 system Story-based development

6. 6 27-Apr-2004Project Meeting: Project Manager Report Itn 06 Goals 1. provide SIAP service (either by wrapping call to http-based service or writing web service equivalent) deploy for WFS and GOODS images 2. provide access to EGSO Solar Event Catalogue 3. provide SIAP-like access to solar image files deploy for image archives: SOHO-EIT, TRACE, SOHO-CDS, ? 4. provide generic means of wrapping SolarSoft IDL routines, in particular data access and moviemaker 5. wrap BPZ and AnnZ (in similar manner to HyperZ) 6. provide dataset access module to retrieve data from VizieR either with user having to manually enter tables and columns or by retrieving metadata from VizieR and re-populating registry after each harvest

7. 7 27-Apr-2004Project Meeting: Project Manager Report Itn06 Process Story based (-ish) More than a story, less than a use-case Cumulative, incremental Build towards iteration goals Design, build & integrate each story Don’t move on until it is finished Stories: #1: Deliver AVO Demo – end-to-end! Basis of wg design ~1-2 weeks incl integration

8. 8 27-Apr-2004Project Meeting: Project Manager Report Itn06 Example Stories User selects point on sky and downloads associated image file (eg from WFS) User selects multiple images and feeds them into BPZ Ditto for AnnZ User selects solar event and retrieves images User feeds solar image file into IDL routine User concatenates images into movie