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web TrnsportDevelopment Update

• Presented by
• Monelle McKay, Info Tech, Inc.
• September 2009

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Topics

• Focus in the Past Year
• Focus in the Next Year
• Questions

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Focus in the Past Year
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Focus in the Past Year Summary

• Preconstruction
• Production support for evaluating and
  implementing agencies
• Warranty fixes for reported items
• Planning for Enhancement and Tech Upgrade Release
  2.01
• Civil Rights and Labor Management System (CRLMS)
• Beta testing
• Production release
• Warranty fixes for reported items (online Help
  issue resolution)
• Planning for Enhancement and Tech Upgrade Release
  2.01
• Construction and Materials TRTs
• User requirements gathering
• Planning for next steps

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CRLMS Beta Testing

• 2 Beta Sites (Michigan, Minnesota) plus Florida
  for SM
• Planning Started in November 2008
• Weekly calls to prep (TeamTrack, training,
  orientation, processes, review beta test plan)
• Testing January through mid-April
• Info Tech Onsites
• MI/MN for mobilization, orientation, environment
  checks
• Follow-ups for specific testing, environment
  tuning
• 100 of Functionality for Beta, patches provided
• Weekly Beta Calls
• Review Beta testing accomplishments and obstacles
• Review Beta Issues submitted via TeamTrack
• Review Beta testing plans for the upcoming week

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CRLMS Beta Testing (Contd.)

• Interfaces
• CAS, SiteManager, PES/LAS
• Main Issues Reported
• Wage Decisions and Payrolls (usability issues)
• Interfaces (PES/LAS, SM, CAS)
• Online Help improvements (report data needs,
  workflows, glossary)
• Reports Sent to TRT/TTF
• Weekly Updates (minutes) and Error Reports
• Updated Beta Test Distribution Materials
• Beta Test Checklist
• Beta Results (final)
• Beta Site Questionnaire (final)

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Other Items

• Preview site updated with last production version
  (2.00.046)
• TRT testing sites consolidated into one and
  updated monthly
• Preliminary release made available with CRLMS
  Beta release
• Testing emphasis
• Regression cycles for pre-Beta, post-Beta
• Client/server modules for interfaces (also
  schedule alignment)
• Accessibility compliance efforts
• Assessment with each release
• 508/WCAG (web content access. guidelines)
  standards
• AASHTOWare Quality Assurance Audits
• Conformance to standards (e.g. testing,
  requirements management)
• Continuous improvements

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web Trnsport Enhancement and Technical Upgrade
Release 2.01

• Initial planning began in January 2009
• Working with TRTs to gather requirements for new
  functionality
• Combined Preconstruction/CRLMS enhancements
• Preconstruction
• Minimum/Maximum values (agency funded AL, MI) on
  project items
• Category alternates
• CRLMS
• Reports for contract payments and contract DBE
  participation
• Bidder/Quoter information
• External Access for contractor payrolls and
  subcontractor payments
• Global items
• Security (password features), entity locking,
  numeric formatting
• Packaging improvements (data dictionary with ERD,
  release summary, Estimator and Payroll XML file
  layouts)

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Release 2.01 (Contd.)

• Maintenance items (code improvements, research)
• Technical upgrades
• Vista client
• Validating VMWare as a potentially supported
  platform
• Research on .NET upgrade from 2.0 to 4.0
• Results of .NET 4.0 research showed distinct
  advantages to doing upgrade including
• User interface improvements (e.g. navigation,
  controls)
• External access improvements
• Datasets no longer needed for reports
• Easier to implement changes (proposal to contract
  transition, new database supportie. SQL Server)

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External Access

• Users outside the agency who work with the
  agency, but not for the agency
• The user and the agency need to share some
  information
• Requires a secure method for data to be shared
• Examples of types of external users
• Prime contractors
• DBE vendors
• Independent laboratories
• Request by CRLMS TRT
• Cross-functional Subgroup formed

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External Access (Contd.)

• Several approaches discussed
• Decided on a desktop application as an initial
  approach to assist CRLMS users
• .NET 4.0 upgrade research indicated newer
  technology could provide secure fully web-enabled
  approach
• Desktop approach changed to full web-enabled to
  set framework for future direction
• Incorporating new approach into Release 2.01

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Web Construction and Materials

• 4 Additional Onsite TRT Meetings (8 total)
• Consensus for construction (CAS, SM, FM)
• Joint discussions (e.g. system admin, external
  access)
• Complete functional and non-functional
  requirements
• Cross team collaboration (CRLMS, Preconstruction,
  Technical, TTF)
• Weekly TRT Meetings
• Sometimes more, especially last 2 months
• Materials power teams and system admin to
  divide and conquer
• Gather input from User Community (Listserve)
• Finish requirements gathering by end of this month

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Web Construction/Materials (Contd.)

• Release Planning
• Construction and Materials together
• 8 alpha test packages identified to allow user
  testing of cumulative subsets of functionality
  from start to end of a logical work flow
• 2 production releases (and Betas) with majority
  of functionality in first release
• Some pre-work to prototype complex areas (e.g.
  Templates)

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Focus in the Next Year
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Enhancement/Tech Upgrade Release 2.01

• Main goals to address
• Preconstruction/CRLMS enhancements
• External Access
• User interface, usability, navigation
• Asynchronous processes
• Custom report development (no datasets)
• Security features
• New database support

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Focus in the Next Year

• Enhancement/Tech Upgrade Release 2.01
• Preconstruction, CRLMS, Infrastructure
  enhancements
• External User Access for Contractor Payrolls and
  Subcontractor Payments
• User interface (UI) design and standards
• Working with newly formed cross-functional UI
  Subgroup to define navigation flows
• Meeting weekly with goal to have all flows
  completed by 01/10
• Standards artifact
• Support for Active Directory (AD) and Lightweight
  Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
• .NET 4.0 upgrade
• Code, database, reports, meta-data migration

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Release 2.01 - (Contd.)

• SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008/IIS 7,
  Oracle 11g, IE8 added as release tested platforms
• Looking to get feedback from TUG on agency plans
  for Windows Server 2003/IIS 6, Oracle 10g, DB2 8
  and IE6
• Tool upgrades (Active Reports 6.0, Robohelp 8.0)
• Onsite TRT Alpha testing
• 4 month Beta period (3 Beta sites SQL Server,
  Contractors)
• Preliminary release available at time of Beta
  start
• Beta May 2010, Production release November 2010
• Surveying community as to whether delivering
  Acceptance Tests for future releases is desirable

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Release 2.01 Benefits of Upgrade

• Focus development on providing business
  functionality by using infrastructure provided by
  frameworks
• User Interface navigation and controls easier to
  implement, test and train (e.g., work flow
  based)
• Ability to improve user interface with less
  development effort
• Security features easier to implement
• Easier to extend application functionality to
  External users
• Expanded web services
• Integrated asynchronous processing and reporting
• New database management systems easier to
  implement

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Focus in the Next Year - (Contd.)

• Web Construction and Materials TRTs next steps
• Wrap up final User Requirements by end of
  September
• Begin next phase, Systems Analysis and
  Preliminary Design
• Planning already begun
• Proposal being prepared for TTF for the System
  Requirements Specification (SRS) and Functional
  Design Specification (FDS) elements (windows and
  report layouts)
• Construction and Materials
• Develop SRS/FDS in accordance with release plans
  for alpha packages
• Continued TRT involvement to review and provide
  input to analysis process

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Web Construction/Materials - (Contd.)

• Work Plan for Development Project
• Based on 2 releases with first release having
  majority of functionality (Contract Admin,
  Diary/DWR, Change Orders, Contractor Payments,
  Templates, Material Sampling and Testing,
  Sampling and Testing Requirements, LIMS
  capabilities, Mix Designs, Approved Lists,
  Reference Data)
• 2nd release (Permits, Document Submissions,
  Disputes/Claims, Design Evaluations, Force
  Accounts, Standalone, Archiving, DSS Contracts)
• Project solicitation (Construction and Materials)

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Questions?