# 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.