Work Plan¶

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.

• 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.