1.1 Provide quality assurance by monitoring completion of Slalom development and deliverables for both the Probation CMS and Appellate CMS, including but not limited to: o Ensuring Slalom meets business needs and terms of contracts for Probation and Appellate CMS development; o Reviewing and advising on project management, planning and appropriate resourcing plans, including advising and coaching the project teams on the best use of Agile methodology; o Reviewing and advising on solutions design, technical architectural diagrams, Devops Strategy/Release plans, and Data Conversion approach; o Reviewing and advising on product development roadmap and sprint plan; o Monitoring and assessing iterative build and documentation for the Salesforce-based Appellate and Probation CMS and the Appellate Court’s Hyland Document Management System (DMS) Solution based on prioritized requirements and components; o Reviewing scope change management process and advising on potential change orders o Assessing deliverables and other project artifacts, comparing current status against project plans and budgets, including testing plans, with a focus on active risk management and delivery enablement; o Providing detailed document and deliverable reviews, and interviewing other vendors, agency staff and IT/project staff, including contractors, as needed; o In the later stage of the project, advising on agency readiness (change management and training), and project readiness for go-live (known defects, traceability matrix review, go-live details, and communications). 1.2 Advise and inform on best practices and timely development of connections between the Appellate CMS and other applications, including: o MassCourts (Equivant)- obtaining case information from the Trial Courts Case Management System (MassCourts, supported by Equivant) for the appeals filed in the Appellate Courts o eFileMA (Tyler)- reviewing and approving some appeals filed via the eFiling portal (eFileMA, supported by Tyler). Once the e-filing is accepted, a record is automatically created in Appellate CMS. o Board of Bar Overseers site- obtaining attorney identification information from the central repository maintained by the Board of Bar Overseers. 1.3 Advise and inform on best practices and timely development of connections between the Probation CMS and other applications, including: o MassCourts (Equivant)- through a bi-directional integration, the new CMS will have the ability to obtain and update data from MassCourts- the Trial Court Case Management System- including, but not limited, to identity maintenance and warrant management. o In Phase 2 of the project, obtaining information from third-party vendor applications about drug testing (via vendor Averhealth) and GPS monitoring (vendor currently out to bid). o In Phase 3 of the project, integration with ICOTS (Interstate Compact Offender Tracking System), partnering state agencies as well as state certified treatment providers using a third-party portal.
