Title: XSEDE doesn’t engage with users enough to identify new capability needs
New Community Engagement and Education “CEE” owned use case identification process doesn’t proactively engage users enough to identify their needs and produce new use cases (in XSEDE 1 we took the initiative to engage with user representatives and didn’t wait for tickets to come in requesting new capabilities)
Title: Lack of engaged software partners to fill capability gaps or support components
Finding willing and focused partners to fill gaps and deliver new capabilities and to provide maintenance and support for production components.
Title: Insufficient staff and expertise to deliver needed capabilities
Title: Operations deployment backlog delays delivery of production components
Title: Engineering process discourages software partners from contributing capabilities to XSEDE
Software partners with fewer/no engineering practices are discouraged from engaging due to XSEDE software engineering practices
Solution: better documentation about the benefits and risks to be avoided thru engineering practices