TRNS

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TRNSPORT 1999Life Be On BAMS
TRNSPORT

• By Mike Jenkins
• Chair, Trnsport User Group

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Northerners Visiting to the Southern States

• If you run your car into a ditch, do not panic.
  Four men in a four-wheel drive pickup truck with
  a 12 pack of beer and a tow chain will be along
  shortly. Do not try to help them just stay out
  of their way. This is what they live for.
• Do not be surprised to find movie rentals and
  bait in the same store. Do not buy food at this
  store.
• Be advised that He needed killin is a valid
  defense here.

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Northerners Visiting to the Southern States

• Remember Yall is singular, All yall is
  plural, and All yalls is plural possessive.
• Get used to hearing You aint from around here,
  are ya?
• You may hear a Southerner say Ought! to a dog
  or child. This is short for Yall oughta not do
  that! and is the equivalent of saying No!

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Northerners Visiting to the Southern States

• Do not be worried at not understanding what
  people are saying, they cannot understand you
  either.
• The first Southern expression to creep into a
  transplanted Northerners vocabulary is the
  adjective big ol, as in big ol truck or
  big ol boy. Most Northerners begin using
  their new Southern-influenced dialect this way.
  All of them are in denial about it.
• The proper pronunciation you learned in school is
  no longer proper.

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Northerners Visiting to the Southern States

• If you hear a Southerner exclaim, Hey, yall,
  watch this, stay out of the way. These are
  likely to be the last words he will ever say.
• If there is the prediction of the slightest
  chance of even the smallest accumulation of snow,
  your presence is required at the local grocery
  store. It does not matter whether you need
  anything or not. You just have to go there.

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Northerners Visiting to the Southern States

• When you come up on a person driving 15 mph down
  the middle of the road, remember that most folks
  learn to drive on a John Deere and that this is
  the proper speed and position for that vehicle.
• Do not be surprised to find that 10 year olds own
  their own shotguns and are proficient marksmen.
  Or that their mammas taught them how to aim.

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Northerners Visiting to the Southern States

• In the South, we have found that the best way to
  grow a lush, green lawn is to pour gravel on it
  and call it a driveway.

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WELCOME TOTRNSPORT User Group Conference 1999

• October 5-8, 1999
• Atlanta, Georgia
• Sheraton Atlanta Hotel
• 92 TEA members
• 175 TUG members
• 25 Guest

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TRNSPORT the Life Be On
TRNSPORT
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Life be on TRNSPORT

• is one filled with many challenges. As users of
  the product, it is our obligations to accept the
  challenges and move the product forward in a
  direction that future users of the system can
  better server the public in the transportation
  industry. It is our fault if this product fails
  to meet the needs of the Department of
  Transportation's.

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Overview

• TRNSPORT User Group
• 1999 TUG Conference
• Challenges of Client Server TRNSPORT
• Future direction for TRNSPORT
• What can you do

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TRNSPORT User Group

• 1. To provide a forum for a unified voice to
  direct the course of TRNSPORT, hereinafter called
  the products, or any products which may supersede
  these products.
• 2. To provide cooperative technical support of
  the products.
• 3. Provide input to the Product Management Task
  Force on product effectiveness, product
  deficiencies, and needed product enhancements.

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TRNSPORT User Group

• 4. Define product training and support needs.
• 5. Prioritize maintenance, enhancements, and
  support needs.
• 6. Submit recommendations to Product Management
  Task Force.

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TAG, your it.

• TAG what is it ?
• Define by the mission statement
• Define by long/short range goals
• Review the proposed ballot items falling in the
  area of the TAGs expertise
• Develop proposed ballot items falling in the area
  of the TAGs expertise

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1999 TUG Conference

• Boehning, Dale
• what type of person goes to these conferences?
• (GEEKS)
• (CONSTRUCTION PEOPLE)
• (DEEP THINKERS)
• (MONEY MEN)
• (BID PROCESSORS)
• (LAB COATS)

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Definitions

• BY Jennifer McAllister jmcallis_at_dot.state.oh.us

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GEEKS

• Data Processing Tag
• To provide input to the Trns.port Users Group on
  technical issues relating to the enhancement and
  development of all the Trns.port modules.

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CONSTRUCTION PEOPLE

• Construction Management Tag
• To provide input to the Trns.port Users group on
  issues associated with the CAS and the
  SiteManager modules.

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DEEP THINKERS

• Contract Monitoring Tag
• Provide input to the Trns.port Users Group on
  issues associated with the DSS module.

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MONEY MEN

• Cost Estimation Tag
• Provide input to the Trns.port Users Group in
  issues associated with the Estimator and CES
  modules.

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BID PROCESSORS

• Proposal through Award Tag
• Provide input to the Trns.port Users Group on
  issues associated with the PES, LAS and the
  Expedite modules.

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LAB COATS

• Materials Tag
• Provide input to the Trns.port Users group on
  issues associated with the materials portion of
  SiteManager.
• (MaterialsManager)

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Challenges of Client Server TRNSPORT

• Twenty-eight percent of all IT projects are
  canceled or never implemented
• another 46 languish behind schedule or go over
  budget
• Government - has the lowest rate of project
  successes just 18

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Why do IT projects fall behind or fail?

• Six major reasons are
• Poor Planning or poor project management
• Change in business goals during project
• Lack of support from business management
• Lack of resources
• Lack of support from IT management
• Change in technology during project

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Future direction for TRNSPORT

• Enhanced Materials Management Functionality
• Provide ability to setup, monitor and report on
  testing requirements and status at a system
  level as opposed to project.
• Automated data exchange between contractors and
  producers.
• Do automated checking at materials certification
  time.

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Future direction for TRNSPORT

• Support For Hand-Held Data Collection Devices
• This proposed enhancement involves the
  replication of portions of the SiteManager
  standalone functions in a hand-held PC (HPC) or
  Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) architecture.

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Future direction for TRNSPORT

• Enhanced BAMS/DSS Capabilities
• Enhance the data model of BAMS/DSS to store
  information provided from Trnsport SiteManager
• Organize the BAMS/DSS data analysis functionality
  into application areas such as Estimation
  Analysis, Bid Review Analysis, Collusion
  Detection Analysis, Executive Summary Reporting,
  etc.

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Future direction for TRNSPORT

• Trnsport Data Mart
• The new Trnsport Data Mart will make all the
  information currently stored in other Trnsport
  modules available for review and analysis in an
  open environment.

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Future direction for TRNSPORT

• Enhanced Contractor Communications
• add functionality to client/server Trnsport LAS
  to allow two-way transparent, secure exchange of
  the full bid package of information relating to
  bids between the DOT and its bidders.

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Future direction for TRNSPORT

• Web Browser Access to Trnsport
• The purpose of this is intended to use web
  technology to bring Trnsport functionality to
  internal agency staff and the general public,
  respectively.

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Future direction for TRNSPORT

• Enhanced Interfaces and Integration with Other
  Systems
• Provide increased capabilities for Trnsport to
  integrate seamlessly with other products where
  feasible, or in other cases to allow information
  to be exchanged with external products via
  well-defined formal interfaces.

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What can you do