National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS ...

NEDSS Phase II, Deliverables 1 and 2
IV. Managerial Process Plans
Start-up Plan
As control of the budget is not within the scope of this plan, the only portion of the start-up plan
that will be addressed in this document will relate to staffing and resource acquisition.
The required contractor resources allocated during this project will vary from 2 in the initial
phases, to 3 or 4 during the actual testing and implementation phase. These resources will have
both technical and project planning skill sets.
Besides the project manager, which this project will require a significant portion of their time
(+50%), the BOH will need to allocate some nominal time for resources associated with NETSS,
TIMS, IMMPACT, and the data contained within these systems. This should amount to
approximately one person per system for several weeks.
DoTS will provide a key role in this project, and accordingly this project will rely at times quite
heavily on that resource. Concerning the acquisition and allocation of technical resources
(hardware and software), or just familiarizing the project team with the technology standards in
place, this project will require both highly technical and administrative DoTS resources.
One of the primary functions of NEDSS is the receipt of laboratory test results. With HETL
acting as the fundamental supplier laboratory data, a successful interface (data exchange)
between the NEDSS Base system and the HETL is dependant upon key resources within the
laboratory. This project will require significant time from technical and laboratory processing
staff at HETL. These technical resources will not only need the skill set to understand current
technologies, but have intimate knowledge of the HETL system and all its nuances.
Additional resources will be identified and reported once the project officially begins and the
requirements become established.
Work Plan
See the attached project plan.
Project Tracking Plan
Project tracking will be coordinated between the contractor and BOH project managers. One of
the first stages of the project will be to define how to implement requirements management and
schedule control. Without all the details of the NEDSS Base system and consequently the
specifications of the implementation, this section outlines key areas that will need to be
established once the project begins:
• Specify the process for measuring, reporting and controlling changes to the project
requirements.
• Specify the processes to be used in assessing the impact of requirements changes on
product scope and quality, and the impacts of requirements changes on project schedule,
budget, resources and risk factors.
PHRG Page 12 of 35 September 28, 2001