MINUTES OF 8 SEPTEMBER 1983 WORKING GROUP MEETING

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00142R000100030025-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: September 19, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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19 September 1983
I'4 0RANDUM FOR: Requirements and Technology
Acquisition Working Group
SUBJECT:
Chairman
Minutes of 8 September 1983 Working Group Meeting
1. The Requirements and Technology Acquisition Working Group met on
Thursday, 8 September 1983. Participants included
attended in her capacity as Working Group Coordinator.
3.I convened the meeting, asking for corrections to the
minutes of the 2 August meeting. No corrections were noted, thanks to
good job of preparing them. Bob asked everyone to check
the information oil the working group roster and add userids where
appropriate so we could begin using AIM for some of our communications.
3 presented a description of the development procedures
that uses o manage its projects. Members expressed some doubt that
such a system wo _"-nrnnriatP fn small projects in the DDI, for
example, but both'
ssured us that the question of
scaling the methodology was not a difficult one to solve. The key was to
adopt a methodology like OD&E's, then to enforce its use with an iron
discipline. (Additional:informatio presentation is available
from) notes of -the meeting.)
4, I (suggested the importance of retaining the "Technology
Acquisition" part of our working group name. strongly agreed, as
did on Mr. Briggs' behalf.
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S. announced that the ISB would like our group charter by their
6 October meeting. She handed out a list of ISB working group chairmen and
monitors, as well as minutes of all the working group meetings to date.
(All these minutes are on file with our working group minutes. Call
if you would like to see them or want copies.)
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6. A general discussion followed on the importance of having a viable
requirements process, and the role of this process in the overall planning
process. We need to focus on what the requirements process should be
recognizing that its most important function is the coordination or
integration of all requirements at the Agency (DCI) level. The group will
attempt to develop a requirements methodology and use scientific processing
as a test case.
7. The next meeting of the working group is scheduled for Thursday, 22
September 1983, at 1030 in Room 4E05. The agenda for that meeting, which is
scheduled for 90 minutes, is as follows:
a. Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting.
b. Miscellaneous old businesso
c. A presentation of
seen by OC.
on the requirements process as
d. A final look at the working group charter.
e. Discussion of a requirements methodology
O/Compt/IHG~ (19 Sep 83)
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