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What follows is the story of the initiative’s investigations, experiments and findings.

What follows is the story of the initiative’s investigations, experiments and findings.

I, William (Bill) Taylor, BA joined the PPMG section of the Strategic Issues and Integrated Management division of the Center for Communicable Disease and Infection Control in October of 2019.

Hi, I'm Bill Taylor, a Business Systems Analyst who joined the PPMG section of the Strategic Issues and Integrated Management division of the Center for Communicable Disease and Infection Control in October of 2019 to carry out an investigation of "a data gathering system" and it's culture.

 

Here is the story of the development of the findings as I pursued threads of opportunity through investigations, interviews, data gathering, experiments and testing.  All of the BA artifacts I make reference to: Reports. Presentations, spreadsheets, databases, studies and recommendations have been uploaded.

October  

October  

During October, I attempted to introduce the team to a User Story / Scrum / Sprint process.  However, it soon emerged, that the Team did not have the time to contribute to this issue solution process.

During October, I attempted to introduce the team to a User Story / Scrum / Sprint process (see CCDIC Sprints.pptx).  However, as the first month came to a finish, it was clear that, for the time being, the Team did not have the time to contribute to this issue solution process.  I was getting insights to the PPMG Team's workload issues.

 

Hoping that the workload would diminish, I continued the process alone eventually completing 17 Sprints successfully and generating 30+ Business Analyst artifacts: .

Hoping that the workload would diminish and allow the staff to get involved I continued the process alone eventually completing 17 Sprints successfully and generating 30+ Business Analyst artifacts: Reports. Presentations, spreadsheets, databases, studies and recommendations.

The true value of the Sprint effort was that the User Stories captured many issues (63) including pain points and suggestions for improvements from staff as well as contributions from Audits and Evaluations.  

The User Stories captured many of the issues, pain points and suggestions for improvements from staff as well as contributions from Audits and Evaluations. During the course of the initiative, I went through all of the issues: investigating and developing solutions as well as carefully tracking their development types (User eXperience, Integration, Data Management, Data Gathering and/or Reporting).

During the course of the initiative, I went through all of the issues: investigating and developing solutions as well as carefully tracking their development types (User eXperience, Integration, Data Management, Data Gathering and/or Reporting) so that I could assess the maturity level of the system (see Findings.ppt, User Stories Report.ppt)

During the month I completed Systems, Software and Data inventories in order to determine what was in place.  This set of facilities was all we had to work with.   

During the month I completed Systems, Software and Data inventories in order to determine what was in place.  This set of facilities was all we had to work with (see BAinventories.accdb).   

I also completed a Reports inventory and data model study building on existing work generated by the Team’s exposure to Lean concepts and methods. This work allowed me to move quickly along the lines of suggestion included in the work towards an integrated, local data repository.

I also completed a Reports data model study building on existing inventory work generated by one the Team’s experiments to Lean concepts and methods. This work allowed me to move quickly along the lines of suggestion included in the work towards an integrated, local data repository.

I created a presentation extoling the virtues of “decoupling” the data gathering function from the reporting function.  The idea needed to be combined with other solutions in order to meet the local need.  But, it seemed like a move in the right direction with respect to improving the culture.

I created a presentation extoling the virtues of “decoupling” the data gathering function from the reporting function.  The idea needed to be combined with other solutions in order to meet the local need.  But, it seemed like a move in the right direction with respect to improving the culture.