2018-11-15 Kick-off Meeting notes

• Modeled after the HL7 governance structure, the healthcare standard organization with 20+ years or experience.
• Education challenges have a lot of commonalities so we based the governance on the healthcare experience.
• Tier 1 voice of the stakeholder: are the work groups, advisory groups and special interest groups which prepare or review proposals and provide it to the Tier 2 group.
• Tier 2 is formed of advisory board, the Ed-Fi Alliance staff and the community. As needed the board might decide to poll the community for feedback on proposal received.
• Tier 3 is the executive committee and the leadership council which is being formed now.
• Communication is bi-directional, higher tiers might ask for opinions or changes to lower tiers and vice-versa.
• Provides transparency and communication between community members.
• Vehicle for communication is a project plan that lays out what the group is proposing. Start with a use case then the project plan goes forward for approval.

5 min

• Technical Issues:
  • Limitation of types, the implementation did not have enough buckets to roll up metrics.
  • Understanding the calculations, we ended up having things rolled up that shouldn't have been.
  • Slow/execution of calculation
  • Issue reconciling data from vendors and how the calculations usage. Visibility of the metric calculations is nebulous.
  • Hard to know what resources are required.
  • Hard to understand where/data comes from or gets used. Is the data not being sent by the vendor? Is it not being used by the dashboard?
  • Long/difficult learning curve.
  • Grading period types/descriptors not all data is handled as expected.
• Usability/Adoption:
  • Variability in data values between LEA's to be able to make it meaningful to their own implementation. Balance between standard/detailed information.
  • Timeliness of information is important. Some of the SIS are comenting that performance is an issue.

• Challenges to keep in mind:
  • How to communicate to existing dashboard users that already have a big investment in current dashboards that they expect to last about 2 years.
  • Existing dashboard users and implementations, training and required resources.
  • The BI work is usually narrowly focused and arround a single use case. We need to provide an sheareable package so that there is less need to heavily customize.
  • Resources needed to implement/maintain.