Summer 2021 Issue

Summer 2021
OPERATIONS
by Someone
One of the biggest changes in the Operations team, besides the fact that Susan is retiring
and Tiffany is the new Operations Manager, is the new petroleum database, COSTIS-IA.
After a lot of research, hard work, and virtual meetings during COVID, we are finally
seeing the results.
This week the project completed its first week of use in the production environment. No
defects were found that completely kept users from completing their needed tasks, but 9
bugs have been recognized and are being worked on by the Slalom development team.
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The project is scheduled to finish the hands on post go-live support next week, and will
then move into warranty support (60 day period in total). The team has several meetings
scheduled to complete resolution of found bugs and to setup the ongoing support
process. Additional fixes and improvements were also found around the data migration
and data translation into the new system. Internal teams are gathering all recognized
items, prioritizing them for work, and beginning to implement changes and fixes.
The OPS team with support from some OIT resources was aware that data clean up
would be needed post go-live and so they are working to put in place the structure that
will become part of the ongoing improvement of the new system. The highest priority
items are already being worked on and several are expected to be implemented next
week. Additional work has been recognized around Box and its folder organization. The
team has requested OIT resources to assist with this and is awaiting a response on level
of effort and resource availability.