PennDOT ATX Project Fall Semester EOSP

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PennDOT ATX Project Fall Semester EOSP

• Team Stalagmite
• Dan Abramovich
• Jeff Ditillo
• Oksana Schubert
• Alexey Stolpovskikh
• Dehua Zhang

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Agenda

• Project overview
• Team goals and process
• Requirements and scoping
• System context
• Accomplishments and challenges
• Next steps
• Questions

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Problem Space

• Problem Description
• New solution for PennDOT on-line vehicle title
  and registration services
• Major Stakeholders
• ATX (our clients)
• PennDOT
• Participating companies
• Business Drivers
• Improved PennDOT business process
• PennDOT Business Partner for Gatekeeper Program

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Vision

• To create a secure, robust software system,
  that supports a rich set of vehicle title and
  registration services through minimum effort,
  error, and paperwork.

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Team Goals

• Create quality product baseline for ATX
• Create effective software development processes
• Manage project effectively
• Experience full software development lifecycle
• Understand how to evaluate new technology

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Process Description

• Adopted TSP roles
• Process definition for risk/task management
• Risk driven task list
• Use of process scripts
• Impacted by project deliverables

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Requirements Methods

• Interviews
• Client meetings
• PennDOT conference calls
• On-site observations
• Extensive PennDOT documentation

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Results - Large Feature Set
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Project Scoping

• Client focus on high visibility items
• GUI was high priority
• Demo for Harrisburg needed
• Identified Gatekeeper as
• highest risk item
• providing most value to the client
• Agreement with client to involve PennDOT directly

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Project Scoping (2)

• Requirements clarification
• Some requirements obsolete/changed
• VPN
• Image Transfer
• Printing
• EFT
• Gatekeeper access
• Prioritized feature list

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New Project Focus
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System Context
ATX Client Tier
ATX Server Tier
Primary
Backup
DB
PennDOT Tier
Gatekeeper
Gatekeeper
FTP Server
Backup Communications
TBD
IBM MQ
FTP
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Significant Accomplishments

• Initial requirements specification completed
• Letter of Interest submitted to PennDOT
• Work plan
• Preliminary technical investigations completed
• Statement of Work completed and signed
• Prioritized feature list (scope)
• System context diagram completed

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Challenges (1)

• Scope management
• Stakeholder involvement
• Process definition
• Project planning
• Meeting management

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Challenges (2)

• Communication
• Between team members
• With Clients
• Visibility into our work
• We were tentative (at first) in communicating
  critical issues (i.e. Gatekeeper)
• Parallel client-side development

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Next Steps

• Prototyping
• Gatekeeper communication
• Complete transaction
• Image transfer (FTP)
• Visit PennDOT in Harrisburg
• Create use cases
• Develop software architecture

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Questions?