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Attendees:
Lon Gowen, USAID/CIO
Krissy Celentano, USAID/GH
Steven Verner, Northrop Grumman
Dana Juthe (OGAC/PwC)
Berny Agala (MEASURE EValuation)
Annah Ngaruro (MeasureEval)
Mark Wilson CDC/Northrop Grumman
Stacey Berlow (MEASURE Evaluation)
Elizabeth Meacham (I-TECH Zimbabwe)
James Kariuki (CDC)
Agnaldo GUAMBE (CDC)
Terry Zagar (Northrup) (CDC)
Vlad Shioshvili (Measure Evaluation)
Josephine Mungurere-Baker (BAO)
Angad Dhindsa (MEASURE Evaluation)
Denise Johnson (MEASURE Evaluation)
Annie Yu (OGAC / PwC)
Briana Lozano (CDC)
Jamie Thomas (Regenstrief)
Jason Knueppel (CDC)
Manish Kumar (MEASURE Evaluation)
Agenda:
MER 2017 Target data elements
Proposed SIMS Timeline
SIMS Code List FAQs
Minutes:
MER 2017 Target data elements
Dana sent data elements in DRAFT form via excel sheet via email to the call group. They are also availible on this page by going through tools --> attachments on the top right of this page.
These requirements are in a pre-test state and the team will be testing them this week.
Everyone will be kept informed as the team gets updates.
Proposed SIMS Timeline
An outstanding item is the cover sheet data elements - they are currently in dev-de. It would be appreciated if those who have access to the dev enviroment to provide feedback.
Intending to have these complete by the next Wednesday Call
Alejandra will be sending out a doodle poll to schedule to facilitate a coordianted data exchange excercise
Data exchange excercise - are there any prereqs an agency would need to be prepared with?
As much as all the agencies can excercise all of the variations of data they could expect to test and share the import file with the team to test
Dev-de gets refreshed from a production instance on a weekly basis on saturdays
Validations - there are system validations but no business validations
Documentation on what the system is validating would be helpful for the community and to allow the testing to go smoothly
UIDs - as they change, do ones that existed before get deleted?
UIDs do not change - even if the level in the organizational hierarchy of the site changes as they are attached to the node
SIMS Code List FAQs
Vlad presented on SIMS FAQ document (sent via email by Angad, also attached to this page)
Next wednesday's call is focused on MER data import