FRPA Data Collection, Management and Reporting Defining the Business Requirements RSM Pilot Review Workshop February 2005

Background §The team §Linkage to RSM Pilot §Role of team in planning the data management strategy

Session Outline §Overview - what is the business context for why are you collecting all that data? §Key questions to define the business needs

What happens to the data? Conceptual Model Data collection Data storage & management Queries & Reports Planning Data analysis tool

§Who? e.g. Stewardship foresters, tenures field staff, WLAP §What? pre-data, e.g. compliance, type of maps §Where? e.g. Block, opening, licensee, tenure, landscape-level? §Why? (Business drivers)?e.g. Forest Stewardship Plans - monitoring results & strategies, effectiveness evaluation §When? e.g. related to FSP submission, annual? Data Collection

§Nature of the database §Linkages to other systems, e.g. CIMS, RESULTS, FTA, LRDW §Security issues (levels of access) §Dependent on how the business is defined Data Storage & Management

§Design will depend on type of data collected, e.g. checklist, form §Will provide an assessment through automated calculations and specified thresholds §Is there a need for an assessment capability for every checklist? e.g. riparian Data Analysis Tool

§Queries = custom, more specific questions or searches §Reports = canned, based on the most common queries, easy to generate and download Queries & Reports §Who will use these functions? §What kinds of queries/reports given your experience from the pilot

§Potential capability to select candidate sites, schedule sampling, and prioritise by some pre- defined categories and criteria §What kind of planning? e.g. resource values, licensee, FSP submissions, ecological Planning

Next Steps - or where you can get involved §Document the results of this session and distribute §Determine who will participate in requirements gathering and testing §Set up district meetings to review requirements §Finalize requirements documentation §Obtain sign off of requirements §Publish Request for Proposals §Begin development cycle §User acceptance testing