NGT web Trnsport Development Update

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NGT (web Trnsport)Development Update

• Presented by
• Ian Baldwin, Info Tech, Inc.
• October 2007

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Topics

• Focus in the Past Year
• Focus in the Next Year
• User Involvement
• Demo

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Focus in the Past Year
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Focus in the Past Year

• Extend functionality
• Improve the end user experience
• Packaging and installation
• Multiple modules ramp up

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Extend Functionality - Business

• Interfaces
• SiteManager
• DSS
• Estimator
• Includes Logging
• Proposal relet
• Section Management
• Several proposal reports
• Extend reference data, code tables
• Track much more data over 90 of PES/LAS fields

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Extend Functionality Sys. Mgmt.

• Error logging
• Security framework
• Custom process framework
• Workflow framework
• Load balancing analysis

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Improve the End User Experience

• Immediate field validations
• Edit Masking
• Two columns
• Move closer to interface of C/S
• Tabs
• List manipulation
• Date picker
• Performance improvements

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Packaging and Installation

• Base and custom installation
• Packaged contents
• Part of the test environment
• Support multiple instances
• Test
• Production
• Support version jumps
• Move from whatever version you have to the latest
  version with no intermediate installs

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Multiple modules Ramp Up

• Examples of Unification
• Database A single proposal/contract table with a
  contract screen and proposal screen
• Business Rules Validations maintained in a
  single place, library of rules can be used
  anywhere
• User Interface Items completed for
  preconstruction scope, CRLMS inherits the
  functionality
• Unified development team with different groups

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Focus in the Next Year
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Focus in the Next Year

• Completion of remaining business requirements
  Production release
• Driving consistency
• Continue building strong unified core that
  additional modules can leverage
• Support and Services Infrastructure

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Completion of Remaining Bus. Requirements

• High level list of key areas
• Interfaces (CAS, CES, SiteXchange, SAPW, General)
• Attachments
• Logging
• Breakdowns
• Addenda Details
• Funding Related Reports
• Field Level Security
• More detailed list available in Demo room
• Production release following Beta

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Driving Consistency

• User interface
• List and worksheets
• Navigation
• General look and feel
• Error and warning messaging
• Functionality within one module and compared to
  other modules

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Continue Building Strong Core

• Gets to the heart of unification goals
• Shared code base, reusable functions
• Each subsequent module will have the benefit that
  
• Easy to modify code if needed
• Already seeing benefits in development for CRLMS

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Support and Services Infrastructure

• Call ticket management
• Focused testing effort outside core development
  team
• Further integration of support and services as
  part of the development team and development
  processes

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Customer Involvement
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User Involvement

• Decision Making Groups
• Information Meetings
• Direct Agency Interaction
• Kansas
• On-site Agency Visits
• Preview Site
• Release 1 pre-production

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Decision Making Groups

• Trnsport Task Force (TTF)
• Oversite of entire effort
• Technical Review Teams (TRTs)
• Own requirements for business areas
• Preconstruction
• CRLMS
• Technical TRT
• Make recommendations to business TRTs and TTF

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Information Meetings

• Proposal thru Award TAG
• Monthly product reviews
• Interaction with
• Open Webinars
• 3 Overview meetings
• 2 Technical meetings
• 24 agencies in total participated

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Direct Agency Interaction

• Kansas DOT
• On-site and remote assistance in their drive to
  implementation
• On-site Visits
• 6 agencies visited
• FL, NC, OH, IN, OK, VT (remote)
• Review business functionality, usability
• More testing opportunity
• Generate ideas for new functionality, improvement
  to existing functionality

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Preview Site

• Data Available
• Data kept between sprints
• Validating update process each month
• Enable improved testing scenarios
• Functionality Available
• Entire web Trnsport (CRLMS, Preconstruction,
  Materials, even the beginnings of Construction!)
• Performance Improvements
• Continued programmatic improvements
• Preview machine improvements

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Release 1 pre-production

• Release 1 has been approved and is available upon
  request
• Intended use
• Test out installation within your agency
• Hands on testing, customization, configuration
• Pre implementation
• Look at list of functionality in demo room

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Demo
Web Trnsport packet in demo room