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EGI-InSPIRE:Requirements gathering details

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Introduction

The development of the European Grid Infrastructure is driven by user communities. One of the prime responsibilities of the User Community Coordination activity of the EGI-InSPIRE project is to capture the needs, requirements and recommendations of user communities and to forward these in a processed and prioritized way to other activities and to external technology providers. This page describes the methods, channels, processes and bodies that the User Community Coordination activity uses to capture and process user requirements.


User requirement documents

These documents are collections of requirements and recommendations provided for EGI by the user communities. The User Community Support Team of EGI.eu processes these documents, captures e-infrastructure requirements from them, normalises the captured needs and then feeds them into the User Community Board where they are endorsed and then forwarded to internal and external technology providers for implementation.

Title Provider (community) Link to document Status (processed/not) Link to captured requirements
SHARE Roadmap Healthgrid community [1] Processed
Production Grid Infrastructure - Use Case Collection v1 Open Grid Forum [2] Processed

From: EGI TF 2010 Summary

From: EEF 2010 all

From: EEF 2010

From: EEF 2008

e-NMR documents: [3] [4]

Requirements collected by EGEE: [5] (Are these still valid?)

Surveys for user communities

Surveys and questionnaires are best suited to collect input from known users and user groups on well defined topics. The User Community Support Team of EGI.eu performed the following surveys in order to receive feedback from user communities on particular topics:

Name of the survey Topic of the survey Format of the survey Sent to Sent (date) Deadline to answer Number of responses Response rate Link to survey and to collected responses
NGI User Support Questionnaire Discovering the services of NGI User Support Teams; Their capabilities for serving international collaborations; Collecting feedback from NGIs on existing user services and for their improvements Email with attached doc Main contacts of NGI User Support Teams 25.09-05.10/2010 Continuous collection of responses Processed answers
VO questionnaire on EMI middleware transition and features How does the transition of gLite services from v3.1 to v3.2 affect user communities; What enhancements user communities require in the ARC, gLite and UNICORE middleware by April 2011 (foreseen release date of EMI middleware 1.0) Email Administrators of every registered EGI VO 07/10/2010 18/10/2010 23 (out of 223) 10.3% XLS file in EGI.eu Humyo

Our partners in capturing requirements

EEF - European E-infrastructure Forum

EEF homepage - http://www.einfrastructure-forum.eu/

EEF Work documents - https://documents.egi.eu/public/ListBy?topicid=1

2010, ESFRI Projects requirements report by EEF - https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=12

2008, ESFRI Projects requirements report by EEF - http://www.einfrastructure-forum.eu/documents/EEF-report

Members:

ESFRI Projects

Requirements of Communities observed at EGI TF 2010 Summary

Reasearch Infrastructures (RIs) - http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=projects

Existing Infrastructures

Reasearch Infrastructures funded under FP7 - http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=ri_projects_fp7

List created on 2010-10-04

Engineering and Energy:

Life Sciences:

Social Sciences and Humanities:

Environmental and Earth Sciences:

Materials Sciences & Analytical Facilities:

Mathematics and Computer Sciences:

Physics and Astronomy:

New Infrastructures (or major upgrades of existing ones)

New Research Infrastructures(RIs) in preparation phase - http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=preparatory_phase_projects

List created on 2010-10-04

Biological and Medical Sciences:

e-infrastructures:

Energy:

Environmental Sciences:

Materials and Analytical Facilities:

Physical Sciences and Engineering:

Social Sciences and Humanities:

Particle Physics:

Fields of Science

Fields of Science - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_of_science


Other tools to gather requirements

1) EGI.eu google form spreadsheet

Example of forms to gather information:

User Story (View live form)

Assess requirements (View live form)

How to style google forms - http://www.morningcopy.com.au/tutorials/how-to-style-google-forms/

2) RT

Request Tracker - rt.egi.eu

3) GGUS

ggus.org

4) blogging

blog & comments & votes & RSS feeds

5) survey service

i.e. zoomerang