Manpower Actions
Task list assembled covering all areas of computing as recruitment tool
- Prominent on web, response to ‘what can I do’ queries (all too scarce), and in hands of management
Management actively engaged in soliciting greater participation from the institutes
- Key point made by Iwona: growing the involvement of people already versed in the software from 0.1 to 0.6 FTE is route to (partial) manpower buildup that at least reduces the overtaxed-experts effect
- Software management books tell you that throwing manpower at a project to catch up to the schedule can slow down progress
- Experiment is close enough for students, postdocs to move focus to STAR from other experiments
- November meeting of Collaboration Council to discuss manpower commitments; software is a focus