[CESG] CCSDS Strategic Plan

[Shames, Peter M (313B)]

Hi Gippo,

I do understand the point you are making, but I really question that these things belong in a strategic plan.   I hardly think that "future maintenance work" would be on anyone's Strategic Plan, but I certainly understand the need to consider it from a tactical / resource loading point of view.  For example, a statement like "I'm going to buy a new hybrid car" is qualitatively different than "I'm going to get new tires."

Similarly the parts about "we've already done this.", which are useful for understanding what has been done but not necessarily for what is intended to be done.   For example, a statement like "We've produced RF coding standards." may be relevant to "We're planning to produce new forward coding standards.", but is of little relevance to "We're planning to produce new optical comm standards."

In any event, all of the "this is what we did" parts are already in the web site.  I still do not see what benefit we get from repeating them in the Strategic Plan and it just looks like one more piece of information that we need to update and keep in sync, for no real benefit.

I do however, think that adding more explanatory material about area goals to the entries in the web site makes sense.   Many of the area pages have limited information now and embellishing them with some added goals, motivations, and plans would probably be a good thing.  That also puts it in one place (rather than two) and gets it out where people are more likely to see it.  I doubt that many of the people who find the web site will go looking for a Strategic Plan, but I think the current design leads them nicely to these pages.

Regards, Peter


From: Gian Paolo Calzolari <Gian.Paolo.Calzolari at esa.int<mailto:Gian.Paolo.Calzolari at esa.int>>
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 5:18 AM
To: Nestor Peccia <Nestor.Peccia at esa.int<mailto:Nestor.Peccia at esa.int>>
Cc: CCSDS Engineering Steering Group - CESG Exec <cesg at mailman.ccsds.org<mailto:cesg at mailman.ccsds.org>>, "cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org<mailto:cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org>" <cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org<mailto:cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org>>, Peter Shames <peter.m.shames at jpl.nasa.gov<mailto:peter.m.shames at jpl.nasa.gov>>
Subject: Re: [CESG] CCSDS Strategic Plan

Just my cent about including the published book.
It is true that they are the past but
1) they are pertinent to the given goal as they explain what it is done already (i.e. a Goal does not originate with a given version of the Strategic Plan but it is likely to be something "in progress")
2) they also give an idea of the future maintenance work that will be needed by the given area for that goal

Ciao

Gippo

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