4.7 Work Package Orchestration

Work packages are largely intended as a means for quality control of the results of work of the research themes. The work packages 1 and 5 (management and dissemination) run for the whole life cycle of the programme. The three ‘core’ work packages 2, 3 and 4 have started in December 2002 and are active until the end of the programme. The work package 1 has started at the beginning of the programme and will stop after two years. Figure 1.2 indicates the approximate periods of activity within the work packages.

	1.1	1.2	1.3	1.4	2.1	2.2	2.3	2.4
	June 2002		June 2003		June 2004		June 2005
	T0+0	T0+6	T0+12	T0+18	T0+24	T0+30	T0+36	T0+42
WP0
WP1
WP2
WP3
WP4
WP5

Figure 1.2: M-Zones Phase 1 &2 work package activity

WP1 will provide the initial focus of activity with a review the state of the art. WP1 has a cycle of 18 months along the typical time line of major technological changes. The main research and design work packages, WP2 to WP4, have been in the second and third quarter of 2002 respectively, once the review of state of the art has delivered the initial focus and the main body of research staff are available.

Figure 1.3 shows the distribution of deliverables for each work package. These deliverables are structured along the work packages to allow quality control of the research work. Work package leaders are responsible for ensuring the quality of research theme contributions to these deliverables related to the aspect the work package addressed. Work package leaders will therefore have to work closely with research theme coordinators in the deliverable editing process. Every year one of the WP2/3/4 deliverables will coincide with the annual report and provide supporting information for it.

These deliverables are combined with workshops to circulate the new developments and knowledge between all partners and between invited or interested international research groups. For the deliverables and the workshops we suggest the following mechanism. We will have four meetings a year. The first meeting, mid of February, is an internal M-Zone meeting that prepares the first report of the three work packages. The second meeting, scheduled for the first week of May provides a workshop where the reports of the work packages are presented and where a work plan for the next 6 months is to be agreed. The actual reports must be provided prior to this meeting. The next two meetings, scheduled for the start of September and the beginning of November, are used to prepare and to present the next series of reports. Following this scheme, all work packages (2-4) publish their reports on the same meeting by means of a workshop twice a year. Depending on the actual outcome of the work in a work package, the focus of a workshop can be assigned dynamically. This scheme provides the necessary freedom for the basic research the programme dedicated to without loosing the possibility of a permanent control of the quality of the research work.

month no.	date	WP0 Programme Management	WP1 SoA	WP2 Architectural Approaches	WP3 Modelling and Design	WP4 Experimentation Platforms	WP5 Evaluation and Dissemination
7	Dec-02
8	Jan-03
9	Feb-03		D1.1
10	Mar-03
11	Apr-03
12	May-03	D0.1
13	Jun-03			D2.1	D3.1	D4.1
14	Jul-03
15	Aug-03
16	Sep-03
17	Oct-03
18	Nov-03			D2.2	D3.2	D4.2
19	Dec-03
20	Jan-04
21	Feb-04
22	Mar-04
23	Apr-04			D2.3	D3.3	D4.3
24	May-04	D0.2
25	Jun-04
26	Jul-04
27	Aug-04
28	Sep-04						D5.1
29	Oct-04
30	Nov-04			D2.4	D3.4	D4.4
31	Dec-04
32	Jan-05
33	Feb-05
34	Mar-05
35	Apr-05		D1.2	D2.5	D3.5	D4.5	D5.2
36	May-05	D0.3
37	Jun-05
38	Jul-05
39	Aug-05
40	Sep-05
41	Oct-05
42	Nov-05			D2.6	D3.6	D4.6
43	Dec-05
44	Jan-06						D5.3
45	Feb-06
46	Mar-06
47	Apr-06			D2.7	D3.7	D4.7
48	May-06	D0.4

Figure 1.3: Distribution of Deliverables