How to communicate

Communication and document exchange

Communication tools

1 the web site http://spring.bologna.enea.it/Ishtar

The WEB site is organised with a two level architecture: a public access level, used to present and promote the project and a restricted access level containing documents to be exchanged (up/download) between the partners.

2 The mailing list e-mail:Ishtar@bologna.enea.it

The mailing list contains all the peoples that works on the project; a restricted version (coordination committee only) could be evaluated in the next future.

Rules to use the mailing list:

all the documents that are not strictly ASCII files should be attached
the attached documents should be in one of the allowed format and compressed with a .zip tool.

	Naming convention for the documents
	The naming convention for the documents is the following:TTWWW-NN xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (author).doc TT = type of document WWW = workpackage that delivered it NN = progressive number of the document of specific for that WWW and TT xxxxx= descriptive title author= the company that edited the document (optional)

This naming convention is strictly implemented by the REPOSITORY of the WEB site.

Document formats

From the report on the start-up meeting: "3.2.3 Common background (protocols and procedures to work together)

Documents will be exchanged using these formats:
MS Office 97 (WinWord, Excel, PowerPoint),

MS Project 98
A specific tool for diagrams and chart is not defined (they will be exchanged through Ms Office documents, PowerPoint).

ENEA has sent a template of document (.dot model) for the Ishtar documents and reports.

The mailing list to exchange documents is ‘ishtar@bologna.enea.it’ (please, use it!).

A common graphic language is proposed for all the diagrams and schemes in the documentation: UML (Unified Modelling Language); materials about it were sent to the partners."

The analysis, the design and the documentation of the system, is realised according to methodologies like the Structured Analysis or UML (Unified Modelling Language) for process and software analysis.

For more details look at Quality assurance plan