Projects for the State of Texas
Below are descriptions of
some of the services we have provided to the State of
Texas.
Senior
Information Technology Architect Services for the Department
of Human Services TIERS Project
The Project –
Replacement of a
very large legacy system of approximately 10 million lines of
code. Rhodes Consulting, provided overall IT
architecture direction and oversight to ensure that the
application and infrastructure architecture of TIERS meets the
requirements of TIERS and is in compliance with the
architecture of the overall strategy of the Texas Department
of Human Services (TDHS).
Our Role –
Rhodes Consulting is providing information
technology architect services and oversight. The
following is a brief description of some of the ways in which
we are assisting our customer:
- Guided and reviewed the methodology
and artifacts for the development of the infrastructure and
application.
- Performed research, as needed, and
recommended architecture strategies to accomplish project
requirements.
- Ensured that stakeholders are
included in major decisions and technical directions.
- Informed management on the business
implications of technical strategies.
- Reviewed, modified, and approved
System Requirements Specifications (SRS), System
Architecture Specifications (SAS), and System Test
Specifications (STS) for technical validity.
- Defined corrective actions for
object oriented methodology.
- Validated user requirements and
architecture for module development.
- Reviewed (and in some cases,
defined) approaches to develop methodology, solution
descriptions (such as security), and identified risks and
mitigation strategies.
Project
Management Services for the Department of Human Services TIERS
Project
The Project – TIERS is
a very large, web-enabled system that is replacing a large
existing legacy system.
Our Role – Rhodes
Consulting is the serving as the Project Planner for this
project. The following is a brief description of how we are
assisting our customer:
- Using our customized MS Project
tool, we developed an integrated master plan for a large
project team of about 220 staff. The project plan has
approximately eighteen thousand (18,000) tasks defined.
- Worked closely with the teams to
define the scope of work and tasks dependencies.
- Developed overall schedule and scope
of project.
- Where the project plan schedule was
out of compliance with project needs, assisted with
identification of corrective actions to resolve the
scheduling issues.
- Updated the project plan weekly and
provided weekly deliverables to executive sponsors and
management of project schedule and status.
- Weekly, provided an integrated
project plan of all TIERS projects.
- Provide project management for
sub-projects, as needed.
- Administered and helped drive the
issue management process for the project.
Software Test
Management for the Department of Human Services TIERS Project
The Project – TIERS is
a very large, web-enabled system that is replacing a large
existing legacy system.
Our Role – Rhodes
Consulting provided management of the System and Customer
Acceptance test teams. The following is a brief description of
how we are assisting our customer:
- Developed testing strategy to ensure
the quality of the application and to discover bugs and
other issues before implementation.
- Conducted tests to ensure that the
application met system requirements.
- Worked collaboratively with project
teams to define and implement test tools
- Managed the test resources and test
teams.
Software Reuse
Services for the Department of Human Services
The
Project – Provide technical leadership in the
development and deployment of software reuse for a large
Management Information System (MIS) enterprise. Overall
effort was focused on developing the core technical
infrastructure needed for software development and initiating
the software deployment.
Our Role – Provided
consultation to agency management for software reuse
strategies. The following is a brief description of how we
assisted our customer:
- Developed the overall roadmap for
software reuse, the Project Management Plan (PMP) and the
High-Level Project Plan (HLPP)
- Developed standards of reuse.
- Developed System Requirements
Documents (SRDs) for the Software Asset Library and for the
Security Requirements.
- Reviewed the detailed design
documents and assisted in selecting and developing objects
for the library.
- Worked with management and technical
teams to identify and acquire resources needed for overall
software reuse effort.
Project
Management Services for the Department of Human Services
Claims Management Systems (CMS) Project
The Project
– The Long Term Care Claims
Management System (CMS) is an umbrella incorporating a number
of automated systems to provide a comprehensive and integrated
claims payment process. The project includes support of
regular production operations for the TDHS portions of CMS,
maintenance and enhancement of systems currently in production
to provide streamlined claims processing for LTC
programs.
Our Role – Rhodes
Consulting provides Project Management services for this
project. The following is a brief description of how we are
assisting our customer:
- Managed the business process
re-engineering, system development and implementation of a
new method for service providers to submit forms to enroll a
new client into Medicaid, assign the client to a LTC
program, and assign services.
- Assisted the customer with
implementing a release methodology for managing the
maintenance/enhancement phase of CMS. This involved defining
the structure of releases and developing a process for
defining and tracking the components of the
releases.
