Part 4 - Iowa Medicaid Enterprise

RFP MED-12-001 | Technical ProposalIowa Medicaid Enterprise System Service Procurement | MMIS and Core MMIS OperationsFigure 8-11. Project Portal Schedule. Team Noridian will implement the MMIS project portal within 45day of contract award.Team Noridian uses the Project Portal to submit deliverables. As comments and changes are made, TeamNoridian updates the deliverables on the Project Portal. We anticipate that the Department staff will posttheir comments to deliverables directly to the Project Portal to enable an added level of collaboration. Inaddition we store the formal deliverable approval on the Portal with the delivery letter and history. As partof the approved MMIS deliverable processes, Team Noridian will update the project portal with approvals.8.2.7.7 Project Management PlansRFP Section 6.2.3.7Team Noridian brings years of experience with MMIS implementations, large implementation projectmanagement and State of Iowa business Medicaid practices to the project. Over these years we havedeveloped and refined our project management approach, iVision360, to leverage the best of industrystandards such as PMBOK, IEEE and ISO into comprehensive and coordinated management practicesthat inform, guide and measure projects, providing the best approach to improve quality, efficiency,project team satisfaction and risk mitigation.This section will provide a detailed description of out project management methodology for each of themajor project management plans included in the iVision360 approach as described in Section 8.1, and asTeam Noridian has tailored it for the MMIS Implementation. In addition this section provides a table ofcontents and the tools used to manage each plan. Team Noridian understands the importance of properplanning on a project of this size, and will deliver the project management plans within 45 days ofcontract award, as required in the RFP. Development will not begin until the plans are approved.8.2.7.7.1 Communication Management PlanRFP Section 6.2.3.7.1Communications Plan OutlineProject communications is one of the largest contributors to project success. Team Noridian establishesthe Communications Management Plan by conducting stakeholder analysis, using creative methods ofcommunicating (e.g., project dashboards, social media technologies), establishing a full spectrum of8 | 21