‘Update on development programme’

Amanda NorrisJulian Fox

Last UG meeting – development prioritisation

• User feedback on data submission

• Website upgrade• User log-on• Menu review• Upgrade online help• Auto-upload of data

• LA Reports– PDFs, Excel, CSV– Regional grouping– Improved

Benchmarking around family groups

• External body reports

• Quarterly question management by LAs

Prioritisation exercise

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• LA default question management– Spec developed

• Auto-upload of data– Most complex to develop, not been taken forward yet

• User notification on data submission– Spec developed

• Reporting review and Data output for external users– Review report delivered, to discuss in break-out.

England user group prioritisation led to:

LA default question

• In development: when first entering data for a period, presented with template

• Template lists all questions available for all authority types

• Each question has tick-box to exclude it for the period• Template saved across periods• Quarter can be rolled up when all included questions

are completed• List will show whether a question is answered or not• Questions in the list hyperlink to data entry

Screen shot of default question

Auto-upload of data

• Most complex of development options receiving support of UG

• Implementation approach will be to make specification available for external parties

• Specification scheduled for development in future

User notification on data submission

• Already implemented for roll-up as part of the queuing process: user receives e-mail when the quarter is rolled up

• Being developed for authorisation levels: as the quarter moves up levels relevant users will be notified

Trigger Diagram

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Report review

• Technical review carried out to find the best way of delivering reports/data from WDF.

• Inputs from User groups, steering group and development team

• Outcome was recommendation to expand the methods used to deliver the BVPI and mass balance reports to deliver all reports

Proposed report mechanism

• Complex equations (such as BVPI) to be pre calculated (known as c-variables in the system)

• Reports are in essence collection of c-variables• Layout and presentation of the data defined in a

Excel spreadsheet, with data from WDF on back tab• Report selection screen allows the user to pick:

– One or many authorities– One or many periods– A group of c-variables (eg BVPI 82a)– An Excel template to push the data onto

Benefits of report mechanism

• Reports allow benchmarking across any number of LAs

• Data in report is in Excel format and so doesn’t require re-entry for further analysis

• Excel template method provides the user with control of final look and feel of the report

Other developments

• The above is a review of the development items from the England user group prioritisation.

• There are several other development tasks competing for time and resources driven by– Core WDF requirements– Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland needs– WDF system maintenance