JMCS PROJECT STATUS

Application Name: Activity Based Costing (ABC) Reporting

Business Section
Business Function: Create and populate a Business Objects universe to
enable reporting from the ABC transaction database.
Use BO to create 15 ABC reports.

Planned Meetings: December 3, 2001 9:00am

December 4, 2001 1:00pm
December 10, 2001 9:00am
Management Discussion Agree on the design and content of the 5 BO reports
Topics: due on December 28.

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Accomplishments through December 4
Accomplishment 1: Continued work on defining requirements for the reports.
Finalized data requirements for the 5 reports due on
December 28.
Accomplishment 2: Established development environment and set up Oracle
reporting database. Defined Oracle tables needed for
reporting, including detailed data tables, cross reference
tables, and aggregate data tables.
Accomplishment 3: Populated the detailed data tables and cross reference tables
with data extracted from the Metify database.
Accomplishment 4: Worked with John Kelley and Bill Green to define data
aggregation rules for data for the first 6 reports to be done.
Accomplishment 5: Defined ABC security requirements.

Accomplishment 6: Worked with Bill Green to define the selection criteria

requirements for the 5 reports due Dec. 28.
Accomplishment 7: Got Tim Gatts of Armstrong Laing to agree to make some
needed changes to the Metify extract/load utility.

Planned Accomplishments for next week

Planned Accomplishment 1 Substantially complete the design of the BO universe.

Planned Accomplishment 2 Get estimates of size of initial data load, data growth
rates, and retention period.
Planned Accomplishment 3 Complete the design of all tables in the Oracle
reporting database.
Planned Accomplishment 4 Work with John South and Doug Watson to use the
Metify data extract utility to populate tables in the
Oracle database.
Planned Accomplishment 5 Finalize requirements for the report selection criteria.

Planned Accomplishment 6 Complete the SQL scripts for aggregating data.

Planned Accomplishment 7 Notify Peter Tuttle that first 5 reports will not be in a
production environment; modify SOW if necessary.

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 Issues/Risks & Schedule Exceptions
Issue/Risk 1: Inability to complete first 5 reports by the delivery date. Because of
the Christmas holidays, the Postal ABC team is doubtful that they will be able to
complete CAT testing on all reports by December 28.

Impact: This will delay the ability to have the ABC reports ready by the
delivery date.
Resolution: Delay the delivery date, if necessary, or just have fewer reports ready
for Dec 28. We will have the reports ready for CAT testing one by
one beginning about Dec 20. However, one very important part of
CAT testing is to verify that the data aggregations are correct. The
Postal team can do that earlier by directly looking at the data in the
aggregation tables that are the inputs to the reports.
Expected December 21, to determine if CAT testing can be completed.
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