<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Great, I will have a look!<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Aug 7, 2014, at 11:29 PM, Fernando Perez <<a href="mailto:fperez.net@gmail.com">fperez.net@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I should have done this prior, but better late than never.. :)</div><div><br></div><div>I just wanted to introduce Imelda, who contacted us a few days ago and volu</div><div><br></div>
<div>I hope this will nteered her time and skills to help out IPython. Yesterday met at Berkeley with the local part of the team as well as Katy Huff from Scipy.</div><div><br></div><div>Imelda volunteered to help the project with writing from a different perspective than what we typically write: not technical docs but business/project analysis. That's a skill set different from our typical one, so I'm happy to see where this experiment can take us.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We decided a good starting point could be for her to take the view of a business analyst and look at what the project looks like *from the outside*, without much detailed guidance from us at all. I'm sure that will be a sobering diagnostic of some of our limitations in terms of docs, project presentation, website, etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>f</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Imelda Llanos de Luna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:illanos@cal.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">illanos@cal.berkeley.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div>I'm a Business Analyst, volunteering my services. I am performing analysis of the IPython project, and I have completed a DRAFT of the Business Need section of the report. For the draft, I performed a document analysis to help write the draft, pulling written sections that existed on other documents. Please review the draft, and provide feedback by Thurs (8/14). I welcome it, and any other corrections and clarifications that can be provided.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Again, this is only one section of the report, solely focused on defining the business need at a high level. <span style="font-size:12pt">There are more sections left to write</span><span style="font-size:12pt">: </span><a href="http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ofcloudpeople/Business-Analysis/blob/IPythonProject/IPython-BusinessNeed.ipynb" style="font-size:12pt" target="_blank">http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ofcloudpeople/Business-Analysis/blob/IPythonProject/IPython-BusinessNeed.ipynb</a><span style="font-size:12pt"> . </span><span style="font-size:12pt">Note also: I had to close the gap between the time the project started in 2001 to the present. I believe I was able to close it as written. If yes , then any writing in the next sections can focus on present goals and objectives, requirements, etc.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">Thank you.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">Sincerely,</span></div><div>
<span style="font-size:12pt">Imelda</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div> </div></div>
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