Work Plan¶

The following is a tentative one-year project schedule oriented to the delivery of interim results and management check-points. This serves as a guide only, to be updated as determined by participants.

Statement of Work and Schedule

- Month 1:

• Use the present one-year Working Group plan to elaborate particular objectives for various team members and relationships with stakeholders.
• Create an effective participatory R&D collaborative trajectory involving participants from multiple organizations.
• Identify and express in XalgoRuleSchema (XRS) a small number of scenarios in order to test understanding and utility.
• Design structured test protocols to compare data input/output relative to results from at least three widely deployed production-class systems currently in use.
• Adapt or create a simple online test service for validating automated rule fulfillment:
  • Multilingual, accessible (WCAG 2.0) end-user interface.
  • Rapid iterative diagnosis and documentation of discrepancies.
  • Link to comprehensive issues management workflow.

- Months 2-3-4:

• Test oughtomation scenaros with the available reference implementations.
• Incrementally increase rule complexity; refining the process for accuracy and for speed.
• Complete and field-test the online service for validating automated rule fulfillment.
• Jointly develop and present a first interim report to stakeholders.
• Develop a draft concept-of-operations for risk management

- Months 5-6-7:

• Incrementally broaden collaborative work on rule expression and validation.
• Roll out and support version 1.0 of the online service.
• Publish version 1.0 documentation (technical, financial, legal).
• Broaden consultations (technical, financial, legal).
• Create hypothetical management/financial models for proliferation.
• Jointly develop and present a second interim report to stakeholders.

- Months 8-9-10:

• Increase collaborative work on rule expression and validation.
• Test and debug complicated rules, exceptions, anomalies and dependency chains (forward-chained, backward-chained rules).
• Commence scheduled version 1.x updates each quarter (3 months).
• Refine and publish documentation (technical, financial, legal).
• Jointly develop and present a third interim report to stakeholders.

- Month 12

• Develop and present a proposed workplan for the next two years.
• Contract out an arms-length study for stakeholder/community views.
• Assess demand for training, and make arrangements accordingly.
• Assess demand for support, and make arrangements accordingly.