Day 1 Project Planning

READINGS

The Iron Triangle of Time, Scope, Resources; Can't increase one without increasing at least one of the others
What project management is for

Frame and Scope the Project
- What is the question?
- Charters and value propositions
- Who are the users?
- Expected outcomes, or, managing expectations
- Deliverables
- Assumptions
- Constraints
- Risks
Generate User Stories and Use Cases
- Review examples of variora, TRCs, DCEs, etc.
- Elicit and codify stories (need a scribe)
Define Requirements
- Clear and atomic requirements
- Priority level (MSCW)
Milestones
- Select, encode, and combine texts
- Annotate and extract entities
- Review and modify ontology
- Create visualizations and other downstream products
- Integrate components into final product
Roles
- Project manager
- Contributor
- Editor
- Scribe

Communication plan
- Choose a commmunicaiton platform
- Agree on frequency and response times
Change management plan
- Agree on how changes to scope and process will be handled

Frame the project
- Review examples of Thematic Research Collections, Digital Critical Editions, and Visualizations
- Take note of interesting things
- Philosophical perspective
  - The excavation of text
  - Levels of transduction
  - Interpretation, translation, remediation, transduction
  - Is the goal to precisely represent a text qua document? Or is it to interpret the text given the affordances of the new medium? Fallacy of misplaced realism.
- Define scope and create charter
Define user stories and use cases
- Reiterate the scope
- Review comparanda
  - Thematic Research Collections
  - Digital Critical Editions
  - Visualizations
  - Other genres (e.g. Neatline)
- Open discussion of what users want -- "As an X I'd like Y"
Define requirements
Prioritize requirements
Develop milestones
Assign roles
Communication
- Choose a communication tool
- Decide on other kinds of meeting (workshops, etc.)
Issues Arising
Copyright
Scholarly standards
Attribution of labor